Android Vs Apple In Market

The battle is on and it will go on like this. Android and Apple iOS both captured the market and growing day by day. Find below a self explanatory infographic which tells the real fact of the fight between Apple and Android.

Apple Sales: iPhone and iPad Sales

To put Apple’s growth in perspective let’s take a couple minutes to review this infographic on Apple’s sales for the iPhone and iPad in 2011. The sales of iPhone and iPad have been fair enough and has been presented in the infographic. 

iPhone Sales

The iPhone is Apple’s most successful product to date. Since it was first introduced in 2008 Apple has sold more than 200 million iPhones. To put that number in perspective, it is only 13 million short of the number of cars sold in the US since 2008. The iPhone alone is responsible for 40% of Apple’s revenue in 2011, and one of the most successful technology devices in terms of sales in the history of computing.

iPad Sales

The iPad is also one of the most popular personal computing devices on the market. With the release of the newest iPad Apple sold 3 million devices in the first 72 hours it was available. That works out to be 694 iPads every minute or 11 iPads per second.

Apple Sales Infographic :

Source : Social Media Chimps

Facebook Camera apps launched for iPhones

Facebook launched “Facebook Camera“, a photo-sharing app for Facebook users with Apple iOS devices to upload and browse photos on their smartphones. The camera app lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones.

It is a stand-alone app, which syncs to the Facebook social network, letting friends consult one another’s photos. It is said that the new app is faster than the primary Facebook app.

The app will show you a feed of great photos from your Facebook friends. You can swipe to see more of any album or tap to enlarge an individual photo. You can crop the photos or apply filters. The app supports uploading multiple photos as well. Users can add captions, mark their location and tag friends.

The New York Times’ Bits blog says that Instagram has 40 million users, while Facebook has 900 million. Thus the Camera app will be able to tap into the requirements of those Facebook only users who are not in Instagram.

How To Upgrade To iOS 5 Ignoring Errors

We all aware about the latest release from Apple i.e. iOS 5 and obviously you people have been trying to upgrade your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch to the latest version. It is found that some unknown errors are popping out while upgrading to its latest version 5 with codes like 3014, 3200 or 3002. After doing some research we have found one simple way out to avoid these errors.

Image Credit : Apple

As mentioned in the Apple website we have followed the same process to update iPad 2 with iOS 5 and the software installed in it without any issues.

Image Credit : iTunes/Apple

Here are the simple steps to be followed to update :

1. Download the iOS 5 IPSW files from the Apple servers. 

2. Click the link that is required for your iOS5 device -

• iPhone 3GS, 
• iPhone 4 GSM, iPhone 4 CDMA, 
• iPad, 
• iPad 2 WiFi, iPad 2 GSM, iPad 2 CDMA.
  

  
  Please note that IPSW files are 700+ MB in size so it will be better if you use download manager.

3. Now open the iTunes software to download the firmware. 

4. Close the iTunes software once download is over and also disconnect your iPhone / iPad from the computer. 

5. After you disconnect, copy and paste the IPSW file to the following location depending on the Operating Systems:

For Windows: %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\iTunes\iP{one|ad|od} Software Updates
For Mac: ~/Library/iTunes/iP{one|ad|od} Software Updates6. Now connect your iOS device to the computer via USB cable.

7. Open iTunes and click Update to upgrade your device to the latest i.e. iOS 5. 

Here, you can use the local .ipsw files and the upgrade to its latest version.