Android is much more popular than iOS

According to the survey by the consulting company Accenture, which was attended by 18 000 people around the world, Android is much more popular than iOS.

According to a new study conducted among active users of mobile devices around the world, 41% of mobile users prefer Android and only 22% said its iOS operating system. Not far from the development of Apple's located and offspring Microsoft, with 18%.

Results in this study are not limited. The proportion of respondents who use mobile devices to access the Internet at least once a day, was 69%.

68% of respondents aged 14 to 19 years of daily use the Internet to exchange messages, as well as noting the serious age-gradation of mobile users.

Among people aged 14 to 29 years the proportion of owners of mobile devices comes to 82%, and among respondents over 50 years old figure drops to 45%. Also marked increase in the use of mobile devices for business purposes and 20%, but the percentage of people using such devices for personal use, is still much higher at 58%.

YouTube application is available for iOS

About a month ago, the network has information that Apple has removed the YouTube app from iOS 6. The reason given was called the expiration of the license, YouTube client in mobile OS. However, the program can already be downloaded from the App Store.

Exterior applications like Google+ client for iOS. According to those who have already tested the new YouTube on iPhone, the program features high performance and functionality is almost identical to Android-counterpart.

Instead of buttons at the bottom of the screen commonly used gestures such as swiping your finger to the right, you can open the list of subscribed channels and other content. Similarly, you can flip through the comments without interrupting the video view. Added ability to display subtitles, improved search and auto-complete system, improved integration with popular social networks.

While the client is only available for YouTube iPhone, iPad tablet support will come later.

Samsung to invest $ 500 thousand in the Linux Foundation to deal with iOS

According to the magazine Business Insider, Samsung plans to invest $ 500 thousand in the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium of Linux. This amount gives Samsung the board of the organization, as well as the right to oversee the ongoing development, including - a free operating system Tizen. According to the representative of the Linux Foundation, Samsung demonstrated a willingness to invest to grow the company, "reaching new heights in mobile technology and consumer electronics." In addition, the funds will help accelerate the development of most Linux, says executive director Jim Zemlin. A spokesman Linux Foundation pointed out that Samsung has successfully been able to circumvent a competitive Nokia, becoming the largest manufacturer of mobile phones. "The next step will be to attack the position with Apple and Android platforms Tizen», - sends a representative word Linux Foundation publication AppleInsider.

iOS and Android. Which OS is faster?

HTML5 today is a kind of lingua franca of the Internet, but unfortunately, the game written on it, while still working too slowly.

A platform to learn how to handle the HTML5-code faster than others are more likely to gain an advantage over competitors. Therefore, the developers of the test is conducted Spaceport.io mobile platforms such as iOS and Android for performance in HTML5.

If the game starts and shows a rather quick work on HTML5, it may subsequently have a positive impact on its sales and increase in popularity, because games are written in HTML5 - Cross-platform and can run on any mobile OS.

The test proved to iOS 3 times faster than the competition from Google. To carry out such tests Spaceport.io created special tools to measure performance PerfMarks HTML5-code. The main criterion for calculating the performance was the ability of a device to change the image on the screen - the basis of all games. A good result was the rate of 30 frames per second, which offers the most usual format is for the person using the application.

As a result, the tests that were conducted several times, iOS showed itself every time better than Android. the latest generation iPhone scored 252 points based on the results of the measurements, and the iPad 2 showed as much 327 points. In turn, iPhone 3GS, model 2009, was able to give only 53. For comparison - Samsung Galaxy Nexus index was noted at 147 points, and somehow scored Kindle Fire 25.

At the moment, the iPad 2 is the most productive in terms of HTML5 device, and was the only Galaxy Nexus of Android-smartphone, which could change the picture on the screen with a frequency of 30 frames per second. But here on Android tablet can not boast of the results, close to the Galaxy Nexus and even more so to the iPad 2. For example, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 scored slightly more than the old 3GS - 65 points.

But both operating systems as iOS 5 and Android 4.0 (latest version) - showed a significant improvement in the implementation of the HTML5-code. For example, the fourth version of the "green robot" has become a much more friendly for HTML5 in comparison to Android 3.0, which is carried out tests in general behaved inappropriately.

Here's what the founder says Spaceport.io Ben Savage (Ben Savage): «Processing of HTML5 becomes more rapid, it can be seen on the latest operating system updates iOS and Android. And while HTML5 is becoming popular, there is still a lot of things over which you should carefully work. We hope that our program will PerfMarks demand among software developers in the HTML5 ».

The following report is based on data PerfMarks, will be published on May 21 Conference Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Does Android have time to correct the situation or just iOS only strengthen its leadership?