Today we were split into groups and assigned an OS of which smart phones run, to research and present.
The group I was in was assigned iOS, the OS that iPhones run.
From that you can see that iPhones peak in sales when a new version, however as time goes on the sales decrease. However of all the OS's the iOS is the most secure, as it is locked with your Apple account, which you can use to acess apps and other items through a PC/Mac with iTunes. Apple's software. iPhones are also the msot expensive of the lot. However from looking at the demographics, the main cosnumers of an apple iPhones were Generation X and Y.
BlackBerry was also another phone, because of the BlackBerry OS. It also proved to be one of the more popular phones, because of the built in messaging system (BBS) also because of the keyboard functionality. They can also support flash and many apps, which is attracable to many people. The BlackBerry was primarly seen as a 'bussiness phone' but has now changed to be used with younger generations, because of the text/messaging options.
Symbian, the oldest of the bunch, is the most used OS, however it is the the most popular because it is so old, and restricted and uncapable of supporting mordern apps. It does however remain updated with widgets and a small selection of apps, however it is not compairable to iOS or Android. It has also recently become Open Source for users to edit.
Android, the newly, most popular OS for phones, is still rising in numbers, overtaking iOS. It is open source, and easier for developers to make apps for. Which is an attractive feature for users. Many new phones run this also, because of the attention it has gained. Android is also owned by Google, so many google apps come preinstalled to phones, which also could atrtact people to buy them, which helps the trent increase. One of the capabilities of the Android amrket is that you can buy and rent movies.
Windows Phone is the newest of the OS's only being realesed in the early months of 2011. Which also means it would have low sales/users/popularity. It runs an OS called Windows Phone 7, which is not open source, and is developed by Microsoft.
