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It is beneficial for Apple, and any handset maker, to keep customers running the latest software.
Substitute Microsoft for IBM, and any handset maker for Sun, and you have the picture.
Paired with this focus on high-quality parts is a marketing model that's unusual for any handset maker globally.
Nokia says it has operator billing in 150 operators in 40 markets — I think that may be the highest figure for any handset maker and app store operator.
Because any handset maker in the world can use it, and customize it with its own UI, it takes that much longer to get the OS ready for each individual handset.
The founders, Sang Won Lee, Chris Harrison, and Julia Schwarz created the technology as grad students and announced the project in 2011 but they've just released their first commercial product, FingerSense, an OEM solution that allows any handset maker to add Qeexo's technology to their devices.
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Do you do that with any handset makers now?
It effectively kills any handset-maker custom interface, though, something which Motorola and HTC have been dedicated to since the beginning.
Last month, Dropbox's CEO Drew Houston was a keynote speaker at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where he gave out an open invitation to any and all handset makers and mobile carriers to get in touch to see where Dropbox could fit into their worlds.
I concur with Engadget who says launching an application portal/store is a logical step to take for any mobile handset maker these days, but if Nokia is in fact going to launch one it will be worth taking a look at, and not only from a consumer or developer standpoint.
Samsung may not have come up with the concept, but it has adopted Apple's breakthrough smartphone idea perhaps better than any other handset maker.
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