Mobile contents of App markets in 2011

- Android passed Apple App store in the middle of 2011.
- Samsung App store  moves feather-footed.

Useful MAP and Navigating Apps

MAPRIKA :: Maps & community for hidden area in Google map.

Stop using paper maps / See where you and your friends are / GPS works even hand drawn / Share your maps
http://www.maprika.com/index.html




LOCUS :: Strong OFFLINE Maps in where no WiFi / 3G

Offline maps / Vector maps / Navigation / Share / Record of track and dot dot dot
http://www.locusmap.eu

Comparison of Apps usage behavior :: Korean vs Norwegian

Due to my private curiosity about my previous post of Apps crazed countries by Google, I research some characteristics between Korea (The 1st place) and Norway (The last place). Please refer to my previous post at http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-app-crazed-country-korea.html
All data collected from http://www.ourmobileplanet.com

Let's getting start.

This first chart says the purchased numbers of apps per smartphone holder. Dramatically it has totally overturned order between Korea and Norway. Before we think why this happen, I need to research how many Apps are there with native language or made by who in the Android market. BTW, below chart is the reality if Google was not a liar.

Next, what do they do with their smart device and/or computer? What do they occupy? Mostly the consuming patterns looks very similar each other except for "Watching TV" and "Listening the Music". Actually the portion of "Watching TV" was unexpected shape in my view because very large number of viewer of  terrestrial TV, internet TV and DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, a sort of DVB-T in Europe) are found easily in anywhere, even in subway in Korea.

Next, if they spend their time on video, where do they occupy this video? On smartphone or Desktop? Interestingly there was quite difference on this. We find that Korean enjoy video data at any of terminals regardless mobile handset or Desktop. I can assume why or how this happen in Korea, but I don't mention about it now.

For social network, this chart means Korean connects to their network at any place.

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-app-crazed-country-korea.html

KakaoTalk Jail

Suddenly the online community starts to talk about “KakaoTalk Jail” because of a post of “Trapped in KakoTalk Jail” in user community board in last 7th day. This “KakaoTalk Jail” means a person who was invited and attended in a group chatting room is not able to escape from that chatting room, and also named as “KakaoTalk prison”, “KakaoTalk hell”.

The guy of this post wrote about “KakaoTalk Jail”, “About 120 people was trapped in that chatting room and no response to release yelling. The host just says that he is inviting people with random ID and cellphone number. I am under mental stress due to notice messages and battery drain”.

This post is spreading quickly to wide online communities and sharing similar experiences of netizens. But the problem is there are no legal actions to stop them. Netizens’s voice increase that “A lot of people write messenger is as clear sanctions need a way to think," "It is not a matter of a joke, Kakaotalk should be upgraded to stop making victims.”


[Link] http://www.kakao.com/talk/en

The most App-crazed country - Korea

[Source] http://googlekoreablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/100.html

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/comparison-of-apps-usage-behavior.html