Android’s Facebook App Use Now Surpasses Apple Facebook App Use
Google’s android is giving a tough competition to Apple’s iOS. With new features in the Facebook application, Android is stepping ahead of iOS. Applications are the main portion of attraction in smartphones nowadays. Majority of the Facebook users spend most of their time in using Facebook applications. In fact, smartphones doesn’t sound interesting without such attractive applications. In the year 2008, we saw the first Facebook mobile application for iPhone, Apple. A year later, the social network company launched a version for Android supported mobile devices. After that, iOS keeps on updating its application to stay ahead in the competition and it also succeeds into that. But according to the latest statistics by the independent application measuring service – AppData, Android based Facebook application has finally overtaken iPhone Facebook application in its daily users. According to AppData analytical reports, the Android app had 58.3 million daily users on 17th December, 2011 while on the same day iPhone’s app daily users was recorded as 57.4 million. In general, Android is considered as the most used operating system amongst all other available mobile OS. It is possible that because of the latest update made in the Android facebook application, users are using it more. This update has been made only before 11 days with faster features, and easy navigation. It is always believed that users are more willing to use the application when the user experience is faster and interface is easier of the app. Moreover, on 15th December, 2011 Facebook also released the new update feature useful to support the new feature of Facebook – “Timeline”. But this feature was not updated till 18 th December, 2011 on an iPhone app.
The war between Android and iOS platform is heating up nowadays with the launch of new features and updates. It is expected that Google will soon launch a music service for direct competition with Apple’s iTunes. Both companies are competing too closely in the mobile arena. Overall, there is lot to love about both mobile operating systems and it is difficult to decide that which one is superior when it specially comes to differentiate on the basis of their applications. Softweb Solutions have expertise in all mobile platforms and have an experienced team of mobile application developers for delivering interactive and attractive applications. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com for specific requirements of Mobile Application Development.