Blogging the mobile app ecosystem
Apple announced today that CEO Steve Jobs will again take to the stage June 6 to unveil its cloud-services offering, iCloud. Also on the agenda is a preview of iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion – the latest editions to Apple’s mobile and desktop software.
With iCloud Apple will look to top the cloud-based music and data services from Google and Amazon. Google recently launched its Music Beta service and Amazon has been pushing its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player.
Searching for apps can be a frustrating experience.
While both the App Store and Android Market have made strives to improve app search and discoverability, much work remains.
Finding apps by function within Google or Bing can also be irritating, as you usually just get a list of links that is only sometimes relevant.
Enter Quixey. The app search engine, currently in private beta, identifies apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, the web and and specific browsers. It seeks to synthesize the fragmented information about the app ecosystems within one site. [Read more...]
