iPhone

Discussion 1

The first iPhone was revealed at the Mac World conference in early January 2007, and later released in June of that year. Initially, third-party native applications were not allowed. Apple products have created a unique brand value within society.  Their products do not support third party applications, thus providing additional layers of security from social engineering and malware attacks.

· How has the use of core ideas such as location and orientation-aware pushed iPhone beyond its web browser and tightly integrated web functionalities?

· Why are Plists (property lists) the easiest way to store information on Macs?

· Discuss the benefits of using Xcode for developing iOS apps.

Android is designed to be a completely open platform for mobile developers, and it is a massive boon to the development of the Android platform (Sari & Riyansah, 2021). This allows developers to quickly bring new features to Android devices by releasing updated software versions, even the core Android OS. It is a perfect thing for Android to take advantage of that approach. When Android first launched in 2008, it was revolutionary in the mobile phone market (Guven et al., 2021). A radically different user interface offered the user choice and independence that is now becoming the norm with today’s mobile phone