Top 10 Android Business Apps

“Gartner analysts predict that Android will become the world’s
second most popular smartphone platform by 2012, topping all
platforms but Symbian. The research firm estimates that more than
31.8 million Android phones and 126 million Android-based portable
products will ship in 2013.

“While I’m always a skeptic when it comes to analyst
prognostications (you don’t sell reports if you don’t predict
multi-million dollar markets), this forecast is well on its way to
being spot-on. In a recent interview for the Guardian in the UK,
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said 160,000 Android phones are being
activated each day, up from 100,000/day in May and only 60,000/day
back in February. That’s an impressive growth curve, although
actual devices shipped are still well behind the iPhone. To apply a
betting metaphor, I’ll take the under on Android catching iPhone in
2012.

“As Android grows, so does the importance of the Android
Marketplace. Apps are what smartphones are all about, and while
Android still trails there too, it’s catching up even quicker than
with the platform. Finding good apps, though, is still a bit hit
and miss — frustratingly so for a company that built its
reputation on search. With scores of new apps flooding the
Marketplace each day, I expect to be writing app roundups like this
for quite a while.”

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