1. 從 Android 3.2 更新看通用作業系統
楊肅榮 Jerry Yang
8/10/2011
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2. 行動作業系統市場概況
Market Share Market Share
Mobile OS Percentage
(December 2010 - (March 2011 -
Platform Change
February 2011) May 2011)
Google Android OS 33.0% 38.1% +5.1
Apple iOS 25.2% 26.6% +1.4
RIM BlackBerry OS 28.9% 24.7% -4.2
Microsoft
(Windows Phone 7, 7.7% 5.8% -1.9
Mobile 6.x)
Palm OS 2.8% 2.4% -0.4
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According to a comScore report for a three-month period ending in May, Google's Android OS devices claim 38.1 percent of all smartphones owned in the U.S. This accounts for a jump of 5 percent over the previous three-month period.Apple, which has claimed second place in the U.S. market, slightly increased its share by 1.4 points during the same three-month period to settle at 26.6 percent. Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry OS, saw the largest significant drop of 4.2 percent and sits at third place with 24.7 percent. Microsoft continues to struggle with its Windows Phone 7 platform, carving out 5.8 percent of the market -- edging out Palm's bottom-of-the-list total of 2.4 percent.
There’s been plenty of talk of Android fragmentation, but little analysis of its meaning and impacts.As far as definitions go, the best way to look at fragmentation is not from an API viewpoint, but from an application viewpoint; if you take the top-10,000 (free and paid) apps on Android, how many of these run on all the Android-powered phones?For Google’s Android team, fragmentation is what keeps them up at night. Fragmentation reduces the addressable market of applications, increases the cost of development and could ultimately break the developer story around Android as we ‘ll see.Google’s CTS (compatibility test spec) is predicated on ensuring that Market apps run on every Android phone. Android handsets have to pass CTS in order to get access to private codelines, the Market or the Android trademark as we covered in our earlier analysis of Google’s 8 control points – and yes, Google controls what partners do with Android, contrary to the Engadget story.
Optimizations for a wider range of tablets(重點在 7 吋)Android 3.2 includes a variety of optimizations across the system to ensure a great user experience on a wider range of tablet devices.Compatibility zoom for fixed-sized appsAndroid 3.2 introduces a new compatibility zoom mode that gives users a new way to view fixed-sized apps on larger devices. The new mode provides a pixel-scaled alternative to the standard UI stretching for apps that are not designed to run on larger screen sizes, such as on tablets. The new mode is accessible to users from a menu icon in the system bar, for apps that need compatibility support.Stretch to fill screen是標準的隨螢幕檢視模式,Zoom to fill screen則是新的螢幕相容模式 等比例放大大部分擁有 Android 平板的朋友,相信都會遇到一個問題:理論上在執行手機版 Apps 的時候,寫得比較好的程式會自動讓畫面放大,但有部份還是會因為程式設計師沒有讓程式支援放大功能,而造成畫面縮在 1280 x 800 像素螢幕的中間,浪費了大好的螢幕空間。雖然這個問題可以透過 Spare Parts 來解決,但 Spare Parts 所放大的只有畫面,操作的空間還是只得屏幕中間的一小塊。針對這個問題,Google 終於出手了:即將推出的下一版 Android Honeycomb 將會提供強制全螢幕的功能,只要啟動了這個功能,程式就會自動以約 320 x 480 的解像度運行 App,然後作出等比例的放大,如同 iPad執行 iPhone 程式一般。雖然效果勢必只是一般,但視覺上怎也比較舒服吧(也可以稍微救一下 Honeycomb Apps 不足的問題)。Media sync from SD cardOn devices that support an SD card, users can now load media files directly from the SD card to apps that use them. A system facility makes the files accessible to apps from the system media store.
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