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4. Pocket

If you stumble on an article, webpage or even video and you are too busy at that period to read or view all you need to do is to save them on this App for future viewing.

You don't need an internet connection when viewing them on the App, except for the videos.

It is available on Android and iOS and the price is FREE.

3. Echosign

This App is designed by Adobe and it has only one major function, it let's you to easily put your signatures on e-documents without having to print them out first.


This speeds up the time required for processing business transaction and of course saves resources.

Available on Android and iOS and the price is FREE.

2. Quip

This App was created with the office workplace in mind. You can work on notes, documents and even spreadsheets together with office co-workers or team members/groups.


It even has a simple and effecient chat functionality embedded through which members of the group can communicate.

It is a very useful App. And it is available on both Android and iOS and it is FREE.

There are millions of Apps available for use on both the Android and iOS platforms and majority of Apps that people download are for pleasure ir leisure.

Below are some Apps that are available on both platforms, these Apps are extremely useful for business and office people and can boost your work productivity.

1. Evernote

This is a popular and very useful App, with Evernote you can store pictures, PDF documents, web pages, audio files and notes that you can easily access later on any other device.


It is a digital note book designed for the working class professional.

It has a powerful search functionality where you can search for specific files and document through tags.

It is available on Android and iOS and it's FREE.

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ejiro2130:
Not surprised Samsung is losing market share, to be number 1 or at least compete with Apple the had to be unique, using android operating system doesn't depict uniqueness!!

They are trying to promote their own OS, it's called Tizen.

Windows OS was also kind of unique, look at where it took Nokia.

7.A lack of black turtlenecks

Apple cornered the market on the black turtleneck as fashion statement, and now Jobs’ unassuming outfit has apparently gone out of style in Cupertino. Cook needs to hurry up and pick out a uniform of his own.

http://www.cultofmac.com/307629/7-things-steve-jobs-hated-apple-today/

6. The iOS update that bricked the iPhone 6

Despite the fact that he turned Apple into the leviathan it is today, it would be silly to pretend that there were no tech missteps at 1 Infinite Loop while Jobs was in charge. With that in mind, it’s likely that Jobs would have looked past controversies like Bendgate.

However, it’s difficult to remember a technical glitch quite as grievous as last year’s disastrous iOS 8.0.1 update, which essentially bricked many user’s brand new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets, as well as breaking Touch ID. “Hey, Apple! What happened to ‘It just works’?” we wrote at the time. It’s tough not to imagine Jobs saying the same thing.

5.Siri

Technically, Siri arrived while Jobs was still at Apple. The iPhone 4s was announced one day before he passed away, and Jobs got to play with the tech before handing over control of Apple to Cook. But while Siri remains a great concept, its core technology and integration with other services has been overtaken by both Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Now.

Given Jobs’ perfectionist attitude, and his disdain for both Microsoft and Google, the idea of coming in third in the virtual assistant race would have been unlikely to make him happy.

4.Too many superstars in the kitchen

As a company that attracts the biggest and brightest in tech, Apple has always had superstar players and some pretty big egos under its roof. But all were kept in check while Jobs was still around. Today we have the likes of Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Marc Newson and a more-powerful-than-ever Jony Ive getting the kind of coverage that was once reserved for Apple’s supreme leader. That’s pretty far from how Jobs ran the ship.

3.Buying innovation instead of building it

Jobs wasn’t exactly big on acquisitions. He acted like it downplayed Apple’s own ability to innovate by buying ideas from other companies. Cook thinks different. “We look for companies that have great people and great technology and that fit culturally and we don’t have a rule that says we can’t spend a lot or whatever,” he said, adding that the company will “spend what we think is a fair price.”

The vast majority of Apple’s recent acquisitions have been small companies, whose services are soon shut down and whose employees are absorbed into the Borg-like Apple hive. While Jobs likely wouldn’t have had an issue with these, the company’s biggest acquisition of all — the $3 billion Beats Electronics purchase — remains a distinctly un-Apple head-scratcher.

2. The giant iPhone 6 Plus

I love my iPhone 6 Plus, but there’s no doubt it’s a bit of an unwieldy beast. It’s virtually impossible to use one-handed. Jobs was proud of the fact that Apple had worked out the perfect length for its iPhones at 3.5 inches. For those keeping track at home, that’s a whopping 2 inches smaller than the phablet-size 6 Plus.

The big advantage of a 3.5-inch screen is that, holding it in your left hand, you can pretty much exactly reach the other side of the screen. In place of that, the iPhone 6 Plus has the clumsily designed double-tap Home button feature, which allows you to slide down the top row of icons to a more reachable height. As for the protruding camera and white plastic bands on the iPhone 6? It’s difficult to imagine Jobs signing off on them.

1. Apple’s kinder, gentler PR image

Steve Jobs was a lot of things, but gentle wasn’t one of them. Building Apple as a company in his image, Cupertino under Jobs was ultra-secretive and occasionally even vengeful in its attitude. The most famous example is Jobs’ threat of going “thermonuclear” on smartphone rival Google.

Under Tim Cook, Apple has embraced its friendlier side. The company is showing more of a willingness to donate money to charity and stand up for political, environmental and social causes. On top of this, it’s more open with developers and the press, while even settling its patent beef with Google with minimal bloodshed. We’re not saying that’s a bad way forward for Apple, but it’s certainly not Jobs’ way.

A lot has changed at Apple in the years since Steve Jobs died. While much of it is good (record-breaking iPhone sales, work on the new Apple campus, the stock-split leading to new share price highs), it’s unavoidable that one or two (or, indeed, 7) things would slip through the cracks, which Apple’s notoriously perfectionist late CEO would have hated.

The recent publishing of a patent for an iOS stylus — an accessory Jobs was vocal about opposing — got us thinking about other aspects of Apple, circa 2015, that likely would have rubbed the company’s late CEO the wrong way.

Here’s what we came up with.

Today, Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s biggest smartphone makers, announced that its 2014 fourth-quarter profit likely fell 37.4 percent. By this, the tech giant suffers a year of decline for the first time since 2011, and a fourth consecutive quarter of market share losses.

The South Korean company said its fourth-quarter operating profit is likely to be $4.74 billion, meaning its 2014 profit will be around $22.7 billion, the weakest it has been in three years.

Although factors like slowed global economic growth play a role in Samsung’s recent struggles, the real threat to its market share and profit is coming from cheaper Smartphones from Chinese makers Huawei and Xiaomi, and Africa-focused Hong-kong headquartered Tecno. These companies, armed with significantly less expensive and relatively similar quality products and features are chopping off the crown of high-end smartphone kings like Samsung and Apple.

Shrinking Market Share


According to International Data Corporation (IDC), quoted by The National, Samsung’s market share across the Middle East and Africa dropped by 10 percent to just below half of both markets at the beginning of 2014. Samsung’s plummeting African market share can be largely attributed to the rise of Tecno which has literally taken over Nigeria, the Continent's largest tech market.

The IDC’s data also showed that Samsung lost 7 percent of the global smartphone market share to 24.9 percent in the second quarter of 2014, while Chinese Tech Company Huawei jumped from 4.3 percent in the second quarter of 2013 to 6.7 percent last year.

“Despite their growth in unit sales they are not keeping up with how fast the market is growing, which has been captured by other vendors,” said Nabila Popal, the research manager of handsets and displays at IDC. “Their market share is declining,” he added.


Another new big hitter is Chinese maker Xiaomi, which has quickly risen to become the world’s No.3 smartphone maker. According to Chief Executive Lei Jun, who was quoted by Reuters, Xiaomi sold a total of just over 61 million phones in 2014, up 227 percent from a year earlier. The company’s pre-tax sales hit $11.97 billion, up 135 percent from 2013. Xiaomi’s products and operations, still focused in China, are set to expand further this year, meaning a lot more percentage would probably be knocked of the market share of the “big boys”.

What all these budding rivals to Samsung and Apple have in common is their more affordable quality phones. With phones boasting virtually the same, and even better features, targeted at low income markets, companies like Tecno, Xiaomi and Huawei are not only reducing the big players’ market share but also enlarging the community of smartphone users. A clear example of this is in Africa where smartphone penetration is rising exponentially thanks to more affordable devices.


Time for a New Strategy?

Samsung has already joined the dual sim feature by making products like the Samsung Duos. The dual sim feature is very popular in lower income markets due to its cost effectiveness of eliminating the need for two devices. The Duos is however not as classy the regular Samsung products and even considered inferior in quality, making it very weak in the battle with the cheaper products of rival phone makers. These makers are largely considered on par in terms of quality with the regular high-end devices.

As the economic growth in the high income markets of the west tightens, and investors start switching attention to fast growing lower income markets, Tech giants like Samsung and Apple will have to go the more affordable path or risk losing out of emerging markets boom entirely.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2015/01/samsung-struggles-why-high-end-phone-makers-may-need-to-go-cheap/

If it is for Android then it is rubbish.

A simple and effective Escrow service will do the trick. Nairaland should simply integrate an escrow service in the business section and cases of scam will immediately plummet by as much as 97 percent.

You say what?

I am an Ijesha guy, although not resident in Osun State.

I am trying hard not to comment.

Do you hqve a picture of the Antiseptic?

martineverest:
The operating system of laplet is not windows phone os but a full windows just like mac os.........it has same os with laptop and desktop.most ignorant ppl here just showd dat dey re not productive with their smart device.

Probooks are very expensive though. But I really love them.

Mondisweets:
This sounds like too much work.

Its not. Check it again, everything takes less than 2 minutes.



You can quote me anywhere.

I am trying not to comment.

inspbado:
Once u go droid you never want to go back, I tell y'all!! guys download "buzz launcher" on playstore and thank me later *wink wink*

Thats true for many people