According to WSJ, Apple is working on cheaper iphones so as to enter into to mid-price range smartphones market.  This market is dominated mainly

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by android powered mobiles .

With more mobile phones makers going android, it will soon become the dominant player. Sensing this Apple is all set to launch cheap phones.

It is quite strange as Apple products are usually expensive which makes it quite elitist, generating unprecedented fan craze. Cnet puts it aptly “Is Apple no longer the BMW of tech?”

This has been done so as to halt Google’s march. Remember, Google is planning to start music store, another Apple territory.

Apple insist that it won’t cut down the features available in the current phones for cheaper phones, so only thing they might do to save costs is reduce the hardware specs. But this would give rise to fragmentation as many apps which require specific specification won’t work on it, which has also become a bane for Android.

It will be interesting to see if consumers of this range who are usually tech-savvy would buy an iPhone over an Android.

Using Google App Inventor now anyone can create an android app. Google says that App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.

Now many have a genuine worries that this might lead to a flurry of crap apps in the marketplace. For one thing registration costs $25 and that will be a hindrance for many. Plus, I think, Google might charge more from such developers. Google is in a win-win situation over here. It can get lots of apps in its marketplace and all it has to do is sort out the good ones for users.

Further, many non-geeky iPhone loving youngsters might be attracted in buying android phones once they start creating their own apps. It is like watching a crap television show on TV just because you have featured in it

Apply for it over here. You can watch the video hereon youtube. Its is an unlisted video, ie. only those with the link can view it. Wonder why Google does not want to make it viral?

According to research carried out by app store analytics company Distimo, the majority of sales taking place in the App Store are for games, while Android users are buying more tools and applications.

Studying the top 15 paid applications  for the iPhone, the report found nine of them were games, while not even one game made the top 15 on the Android chart. To balance that, not one productivity or utilities app appeared in Apple’s top 15.

This pattern continues for free games as well. One important point from the report is Classic games on Android Market are more popular than in the Apple App Store, with even 3 out of the 15 most popular games for Android being emulators. These types of emulators are not allowed in the Apple App Store.

If you are a developer you can sign up for developing apps for iphone and android.