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“CEA Feature” with Danielle Cassagnol
This week Apple finally announced details about its Apple Watch – the pricing, battery life, apps and features. That puts Apple into the smartwatch market, along with a bunch of other companies like Samsung, Motorola, Pebble and LG. Danielle Cassagnol from the Consumer Electronics Association has a closer look at the smartwatch industry – in this week’s CEA Update.
Guest Segment:
Jim Barry, Digital Answer Man – CEA
Peter in Olympia, Washington – calling in via the App asked us: “Thank you for fixing the Into Tomorrow app for Tablets. Question is… Why do some companies put out applications for tablets and some do a separate app for phones when it comes to Android?”
Peter, Depending on the company, it may be because the application has no place on a phone, because it’s the easiest way to maintain it, or because it’s been around for a while. Some applications require the big screen and companies don’t want them on phones at all, but when they do the also face other issues.
Android is quick to push OSs or to try to incorporate new devices and Google often does it without thinking of the challenges that will be involved, that means that sometimes supporting a certain tablet means not supporting a certain phone, or that code that runs well in that tablet OS doesn’t work well in the version some phones are using. On top of that, Google pushed out Android Tablets without thinking of how they were going to relate to phones, so they didn’t start out having universal apps that would run on either.
That means that if you released an app for a tablet and an app for a phone, and you would like to roll them both into a single app, you need to either get all of your phone users or all of your tablet users to transition onto the other app. You can’t just say “hey everyone, app C is the merged version of app A and app B and your next update will take all of you to app C” they have to transition manually, and that more often than not is too much to ask.
For more information tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
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