{"id":574,"date":"2015-07-14T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2015-07-14T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:57:34","slug":"why-we-use-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Why we use Android\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked, <em><strong>&#8220;Do your apps run on iOS<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\/Apple?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Truth is, we love Apple and what they have done to <em><strong>energize<\/strong> <\/em>the industry! But, business is business. When we want to offer our customers a <em><strong>choice<\/strong><\/em>, working with a single device manufacturer that strictly controls the operation of apps on their devices seems, well, just <em><strong>a little too restrictive<\/strong><\/em>. Especially when the device only holds 18% of the market share. That&#8217;s right, our beloved <em><strong>Apple devices are not even used by 82% of smart device users!<\/strong><\/em> So, isn&#8217;t it smarter to go with devices made by <em><strong>dozens of different manufacturers<\/strong><\/em> who have all standardized on <em><strong>Android<\/strong><\/em>\u00ae? <strong><em>More devices<\/em> = <em>more innovation<\/em><\/strong> and <em><strong>more to choose from<\/strong><\/em>. Still skeptical? Take a look at the chart below.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/prodserv\/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 979px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/prodserv\/smartphone-ms-img\/chart-ww-smartphone-os-market-share.png\" alt=\"IDC: Smartphone OS Market Share 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 Chart\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked, &#8220;Do your apps run on iOS\/Apple?&#8221; Truth is, we love Apple and what they have done to energize the industry! But, business is business. When we want to offer our customers a choice, working with a single device manufacturer that strictly controls the operation of apps on their devices seems, well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}