The Upside Learning blog holds a very special place in my heart. Especially because I am the curator (if you’d like to call it that) of the blog. We started blogging on March 03, 2009, and have never looked back since. Today, 575 posts later, it makes me proud to see the blog bloom into a knowledge hub for people in the eLearning industry and otherwise too. Below are some stats that speak volumes about our blog and us as a company too.

STATS

1. 1,000,000 Views All Time
2. 575 Blog Posts
3. 2500+ No. Of Followers / Subscribers
4. 1500+ Comments
5. 31,624 Best Ever Views In A Month
6. 1,693 Best Ever Views In A Single Day

And since this achievement has made me a bit nostalgic about the days gone by, I have compiled a list of our 50 all time, most-read posts.

1. Tools for Developing Augmented Reality Applications
2. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources
3. Top 100 Learning Game Resources
4. Top 13 LMS (and Learning Technology) Blogs
5. Creating 3D Graphics – Isometric Views With Orthographic Projection
6. iPad Applications In Bloom’s Taxonomy
7. Five Tips for Creating Graphics for Mobile Devices
8. This Flash Player (Frash) Runs On iPad
9. 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads
10. 22 Books For Beginner Instructional Designers
11. 30 Top Online Resources For Instructional Designers To Keep Up With
12. Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs
13. The Ten Commandments of eLearning
14. Training Plan For iPhone Application Development
15. Elements For Constructing Social Learning Environments
16. Learning Creativity and About Creativity From Lego
17. Instructional Design for Beginners – What Motivates People To Learn?
18. IPhone- User Interface Guidelines- Part I
19. Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?
20. The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!
21. Tools For Mobile Learning Development
22. Mobile Learning: A Quick SWOT Analysis
23. Five Mobile Learning Implementation Tips
24. 15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads
25. What Is Mobile Learning?
26. Future of Learning Technology – 2015
27. Developing A Layar Application
28. Rapid Authoring Tools For Creating mLearning
29. Interesting Mobile Statistics By Tomi Ahonen: mLearnCon
30. Mobile Learning (mLearning) Applications – An Example
31. SCORM Implementation For Mobile Devices
32. 5 Good TED Talks On Games
33. 22 Great Free ActionScript 3.0 Learning Resources
34. LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis
35. HTML 5 and eLearning Development
36. Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry
37. Instructional Design Basics: Designing A Timeline
38. Will Mobile Apps Change Training Forever?
39. Blending Learning with Social Technology Components
40. Custom eLearning Development Costs – Results From Chapman Alliance Study
41. Mobile Learning in India
42. A List of Interesting Mobile Learning Links
43. Eight Tips for LMS Implementation
44. What Is Game Based Learning?
45. eLearning Development: How long does it Really take?
46. Why Use ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Based eLearning Development?
47. eLearning Australia
48. Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development
49. How Long Does It Take To Develop An Hour Of Elearning?
50. How To Create Successful M-Learning Strategy: mLearnCon – Part I

On a final note, I would love to hear what you find the most interesting on our blog and what you would like to read about in our future posts. Let us know in the comments section below.

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Another technology that has found its feet not just in marketing but more so in just-in-time, self-based learning is Augmented Reality (AR). Know how AR can change your world.

Besides this, our technology-tuned ears have also caught some scoop on iPhone and Flash; finally, the marriage seems to be on the cards. Find all this and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 10 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.
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1. QR Codes Explained by Common Craft
This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone.

2. 10 Examples Of QR Codes For Real Time Marketing
Find 10 examples of QR codes for real time marketing.

3. Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Change Your World
Know the 5 ways in which businesses are using AR to promote their products and causes today, and insights into what’s in the future.

4. iPhone Finally Gets Flash
Apple may not have approved it, but it appears as though iPhone users will soon gain access to Flash content.  Get the entire lowdown here.

5. How HTML5 May Become The Standard For Apps (Inside Apps)
Qualcomm executive Rob Chandhok tells CNET why he sees apps moving toward HTML5 in a big way over the next 18 to 24 months.

6. The iPad Challengers: A Status Report
Android, WebOS, QNX, Windows – a number of operating systems were supposed to have a decent shot at competing with the iPad. So, how have they fared so far? Not so hot is what this blog post by Harry McCracken says.

7. 10 Infographics For Learning
Find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities – online, blended, mobile, etc.

8. Social Gaming Now And In The Future
This article shows an infographics on some interesting stats about the social gaming in the USA and curious about one for Europe or the whole world. Further, a recent study by Latitude Research claims that the new gamers are looking forward to see games and applications go beyond the screen and easily combine “online” with their “offline” lives. Know the state of gaming now and in the future.

9. 9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator
Learn 9 new skills, some of which are holdovers from the 20th century, which are desirable – if not outright necessary – components of contemporary classrooms.

10. Overcoming Objections to eLearning
Overcoming objections is an important part of making any eLearning initiative successful, and luckily, eLearning’s long history gives us plenty of knowledge of how to make our case. Find some of the tactics used in dealing with these objections.

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1. Finding the Right Learning Mix
Learning organizations are experiencing a kind of renaissance, with new technology prompting new thinking about how to enhance, extend and enable learning. In the wake of business and technology changes, finding the right learning mix is not just about blending various modes of learning but taking into account the newly changed drivers for blended learning as well.

2. The Manager’s Responsibility In Learning
Learning is just facts and figures without managerial support. Like a great baseball coach, a supportive manager can ensure learning events produce the equivalent of a home run. Know how managers can guide their employees toward right actions and support them even when their attempts fail as part of the development process.

3. The Pros and Cons of E-Learning and Education Technology
Looking at the highs and lows of the new eLearning generation and the education technology revolution, what are the pros and cons of online education, the benefits and dangers? Know it all here before you take the plunge.

4. Marc My Words: Back to Basics – When Training Is the Answer
There are times when training is not the answer. But still training remains a linchpin to most performance improvement strategies, and there is no indication that training — classroom or online — is going away anytime soon. Learn the eight fundamental characteristics that will give you guaranteed improvement opportunities in your training program.

5. Lessons In Social Learning: What Happens In The Classroom Stays In The Classroom
There is an exciting case study in the August issue of Chief Learning Officer Magazine about how Coldwell Banker uses social learning to get to the learning. Know about it here.

6. What Games Have Changed
Examples of games and game-related projects that are already making a difference and why we should care.

7. 10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class
A guide to 10 great tools for digital storytelling with a class – create comics, animations and eBooks.

8. Tools For Freelance Instructional Designers
Melissa Venable shares a list of open and commercial tools for freelance instructional designers.

9. Smartphones Have Influenced Higher Education
According to a May 2011 survey by the Nielson Company, about 37% of mobile consumers have a smartphone, with a majority of these individuals using either an Android or an Apple model.

10. Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

11. The Rise of the Mobile Workforce [INFOGRAPHIC]
The era of the nine to five job is over. In its place is a mobile workforce that can work from anywhere. This infographic explains the trend.

12. How Far Students Will Go To Switch To Digital Textbooks [INFOGRAPHIC]
Students are willing to go to great lengths in order to never have to carry a textbook again. To find out why they are so anti-textbook, see this infographic.

13. 3 Things Children Would Like To See In The Future Of The Net And Technology
Children from all over the world aged 12 and below share their hopes, wishes and expectations about the Internet and technology in general. The results are surprising, to say the least.

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1. Mobile Learning: Are We On the Cusp of Something Big? We’re at just that point now with mobile learning. Whether it’s on an e-reader, a tablet, or a cell phone, there’s great excitement – though not a lot of research yet – around the potential of how these devices can strengthen learning.

2. Digital learning: Digital Devices To Replace Textbooks As students become more and more dependent on digital devices and digital learning becomes more popular, will textbooks become extinct? Find out in this infographic.

3. Mobile Apps: A Look At What Makes An App Popular There is no magic formula to app success; it always needs a good – if not unique – idea to make the hundreds of millions of smartphone owners take notice. And that’s just one part. Listed here are some key points that make a good app great, what differentiates one photo app from another photo app, to become a top seller on a mobile app store.

4. For Small Businesses, Work Is Increasingly Mobile (And It Pays) It’s not exactly breaking news that mobile technologies are changing the way we work and enabling employees to be productive regardless of their location. What’s interesting is the pace at which they appear to be doing so. Know how small businesses are harnessing mobile technologies for carrying out their work.

5. 10 Major Mobile Learning Trends to Watch For While the applications of mLearning are growing all the time, here are some of the major trends to help you learn more about how mobile learning is shaping the 21st century classroom – and may change how we teach, learn and interact in any educational environment.

6. Times Are Changing – Trends In The Content Authoring Tool Market As the rapid content authoring market continues to grow, new features and capabilities are equally growing. For the most part, that is a great thing, but as you are about to read, some are not.

7. 10 Reasons Teachers Love Blended Learning Blending the best of online and on-site learning can work better for students and teachers. Here are ten reasons that blended learning makes teaching a better job.

8. “There I Was”: Lessons Learned Converting Instructor-based Pilot Training to Blended Learning Know how a project of converting one-half of a 200+ hour instructor-based training curriculum (IBT) to eLearning proved to be the perfect learning laboratory from an eLearning developer’s perspective.

9. App Fusion: 30 Twitter Apps for the Learning Pro Twitter is not the answer to every learning professional’s prayer. There are limits as well as benefits that using these applications will have on learning outcomes. This article will help you get the most value out of Twitter, should you decide to include it in your personal learning strategy or that of your organization.

10. How Many Devices Can A Smartphone, Tablet Replace? Has the smartphone become the quintessential all-in-one device? And if you have both a smartphone and a tablet, where does that leave your laptop? Know more.

11. Poll Shows Generational Gap in Workplace Training Programs Millennials, who grew up in the Internet age, learn and communicate differently than baby boomers – and the results of a new national poll show current approaches to workplace training are struggling to meet the needs of this younger generation. Some staggering facts here.
12. iPad To Dominate Tablet Market Until 2015 [STUDY] The iPad will continue to dominate the growing tablet market until Android tablets take over in 2015, according to several forecasts.

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1.#mLearnCon 2011 Backchannel – Collected Resources

This post collects the resources shared via the backchannel of the mLearnCon 2011, that was held between June 21 and 23 in San Jose, California.

2. Why You Need a Mobile Learning Strategy

Not having a strategy for mobile learning is itself a strategy. And not a very effective one at that. Understanding the decision criteria for mLearning, and having a plan for periodically reviewing those criteria and their performance against those criteria, designers and managers are in a much better position to make good decisions about how they will support learning in their organizations. This is just one of the many reasons why you need a mobile learning strategy. Know more here.

3. How To Make The Right Call With Mobile Learning

The popularity of smartphones and tablets in the workplace has increased the interest in mobile learning. But with the mobile landscape constantly evolving, many organizations are asking themselves if now is the right time to take the plunge, or if they should wait for more stability. Know how to make the right call.

4. Quick and Simple mLearning Content for the iPhone

Getting started developing eLearning content is relatively easy; however mLearning is a different ball game altogether. The challenge is manifold: finding easy-to-use development tools, developing for multiple devices, and most importantly, determining the right context for the mLearning content. This article provides you with a very basic vehicle for creating simple mLearning content, so that you can get started quickly, see what’s possible, understand the pitfalls, and begin to figure out how you might blend mLearning into your existing training or learning strategy.

5. What Are Mobile Devices Teaching Your Kids?

Mobile learning blends traditional pedagogy with technology to reach every child. The question is not if your child should use a mobile device in school, but how to do it safely. Know it here.

6.What Exactly Can You Learn On A Mobile Phone?

Understand how a mobile phone can be considered a learning tool, and whether it can actually help bridge the digital divide between low-income, at-risk kids and those with access to computers.

7. 13 Helpful Mobile Web Design Tools & Resources

Here are 13 mobile web design resources that’ll make it easy for you to deliver a snappy but aesthetically pleasing mobile web experience.

8. How 3 Mobile Gadgets are Transforming our Lives: New Research

So how are the 3 mobile devices changing our lives and disrupting stable industries. Know what the latest research from Nielsen reveals after speaking to 12,000 mobile connected device owners about what we are doing with the 3 mobile gadgets that are changing habits.

9.HTML5 – Opportunities for Mobile Devices

HTML5 offers amazing opportunities to us for designing and developing formal and informal learning solutions. So get ready to add mLearning with HTML5 to your learning and development repertoire.

10. 7 iPad Habits of Highly Effective Remote Workers

The use of the iPad by mobile workers is on the rise, and that brings with it both boons and challenges for worker productivity. Here’s how you and your remote staff can stay on top of iPad usage, lest iPad usage controls you and your organization instead.

11. Are Tablets Made for the Education Market Doomed

Does the demise of both the Kno and the enTourage eDGe, aimed squarely at the educational market, indicate that post-PC future doesn’t look too good for education-only devices? Know more about it here.

12. Infographic: iPad Usage In The UK

What’s the media diet of an iPad user? Digital marketing production house Imano surveyed 2,000 UK iPad users in May to find out.

13. Infographic: The Enterprise Mobile Explosion

Companies worldwide are incorporating mobile technology and applications into their operations to increase productivity and revenue and reduce paperwork. This explosion in the use of mobile devices in the enterprise will help to fuel demand for mobile apps, as this infographic shows.

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• Mobile Learning: An Upside Learning Point of View – eBook
• The Advent Of Mobile Learning Technology – Presentation
• Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources – Presentation

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We have also included a couple of guides and tips on some eLearning and mLearning topics that will help you in creating effective learning experiences and designing mobile apps respectively. Besides this, you will find a sprinkling of information and news on HTML5, Android v/s iPhone features, games etc. Find all this and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 11 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. 6 Reasons Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom By looking at all that the tablets offer in the context of student behavior and some of the recent trends in education, it’s clear that tablets are ready for the classroom. Here’s a look at the top reasons why.
2. Businesses Embrace iPads, But Don’t Know Why iPads lead the spread of tablets within businesses, but for many the strategy is murky. Also, most expect tablets won’t replace laptops. Read on to know why.
3. Free Guide: 10 Reasons To Implement eLearning All training requires effort to make it work, whether face-to-face or over a computer. Once you have an e-learning course up and running, however, it has distinct advantages. Here’s why e-learning can be as easy as counting to 10.
4. A Practical Guide To Creating Learning Scenarios A learning scenario consists of a description of a realistic situation (usually fictional), accompanied by one or more questions that challenge the learner to respond to some aspect of that situation. But it’s not as simple as it sounds. Here’s a practical guide that will help you create effective learning scenarios.
5. The Best eLearning Demo I Have Ever Seen Talks about an eLearning program by luxury automobile maker Lexus, at a time when it had debuted along with a whole new philosophy of car sales. The program mainly focused on training, or re-training salespeople to act differently and creating the new Lexus experience through the salespeople.
6. 10 Tips For Designing mLearning And Support Apps Gathered up here are some of the best practices of mobile app design which can be applied to mobile learning and mobile performance support.
7. How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this era, free education has never been so accessible. Know how the internet is revolutionizing the education landscape.
8. Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn’t Have We love both Android and iOS, but the open nature of Andorid just means it can do things others just can’t. Here are 10 awesome Android apps and features that you won’t find on its Apple-clad brethren.
9. Another Proposed Definition of “Game” This article proposes a new definition for ‘game’ and goes on to explain each of its several disparate elements that combine to make an event that is larger than the individual elements.
10. How HTML5 Will Transform the Online Video Landscape HTML5 holds immense promise for the future of web video, the stakes are complex. Here’s a breakdown of where the industry stands in terms of browsers, video services and content providers.
11. HTML5 Isn’t Solving Mobile Dev Issues Yet HTML5 will likely make mobile development easier but not for some time, says a group of wireless experts.

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Continuing the mLearning thread, it would also be of benefit for you to know the possible reasons why your well thought mLearning strategy could fail. Furthermore, you can learn some tips, techniques and best practices for developing mobile web apps. On the eLearning front, learn how you can overcome the cultural barriers to the adoption of eLearning, how DSLRs can help you in making engaging eLearning videos and how you too can attain the balance between formal and informal learning. Find all this and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 10 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. How To Teach Using Mobile Phones Mobiles are commonplace in secondary schools, but can they be used for teaching? Find out on the Guardian Teacher Network this week.
2. The Top 10 Reasons Your Mobile Learning Strategy Will Fail Find top 10 repeat offenders that could deliver a devastating blow to your mLearning strategy.
3. The Desktop Is Turning Mobile The rapid rise of mobile operating systems is changing the traditional desktop and laptop OS. As the operating systems that power these mobile devices become the new norm, we can expect certain aspects of desktop and laptop operating systems to imitate the little upstarts that had initially imitated them. Read on to know how.,/li>
4. Building Mobile Web Apps the Right Way: Tips and Techniques Mobile web apps provide advantages over native mobile apps. This article shares tips, techniques, and best practices for developing mobile web apps.
5. HOW TO: Build a Mobile App for Better Customer Support Most digital natives would rather fire up an app than get on the phone with customer care. Here’s why you should be investing your support dollars into mobile solutions.
6. eLearning’s Benefits Are Obvious: Why Don’t They Like It? Despite the obvious benefits of eLearning, its acceptance is not universally guaranteed. This article examines how we might overcome the cultural barriers to the adoption of eLearning.
7. Learning Formally or Informally…? Why not Both! Frederic Domon reconsiders the great paradox of training: higher budgets being allocated to classical training and major chunk of learning taking place through social learning. And further suggests that a holistic approach integrating both formal and informal learning should be thought of as the cornerstone of organizational development. Know more.
8. Is This the Future of Books? What is a Book? Is this the future of Books? Is the convenience of the eBook enough? What is a Book worth? Find answers to all these questions.
9. 10 Gaming Genres To Adapt In Class Here is a brief description of ten gaming genres and some tips on how they can be used in the classroom. All these games were chosen because they are popular with young language learners, engaging and fun.
10. How to Make eLearning Video with Digital SLR Cameras (and Why) There are many reasons to use DSLRs to make video for eLearning, not the least of which are the stylish quality of the video they can shoot, the range of lenses, and, of course, the additional control of composition you can gain. Know what DSLRs can do, their benefits and more.

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1. From Classroom To Online, Think “Transform” not “Transfer” Converting an existing classroom course to an online format can be a tricky, time-consuming undertaking. There are some aspects of the classroom program which are most successful and some which fail. Read on to learn some specific re-design tips that work.
2. Globalizing E-learning For International Audiences Research shows that learners learn best in their native language and familiar cultural context, by respecting local languages and cultures at every level. In today’s flat world, it is imperative that learning professionals modify the business process and design all courses as if they were going global. Learn about the processes involved in globalizing.
3. Game-Based Learning: Hype Vs. Reality It’s a known fact that computer and video games have the potential to make significant learning impact. However its potential is currently not being realized – at least not at a meaningful scale. Know if game-based learning is a hype or reality, or both.
4. 4 Ways Mobile Tech Is Improving Education With Internet in the palm of our hands, educators are looking at mobile as the next big tool for schools. Here are 4 ways in which mobile devices are helping improve education.
5. Web vs. Native Mobile App? Forrester Says Do Both Research firm Forrester takes a deeper look at the mobile Web versus application debate. And here’s a rather startling conclusion: there is no debate at all. So what is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction? Will new and developing browser technologies like HTML5 make the mobile Web preferable to apps? Know it all here.
6. Augmented Reality and Web 3.0 After Web 2.0 there have been speculations about Web 3.0 and what it would be. Furthermore, what about Web 3.0 and Augmented Reality? What potential does it hold? Read it all here.
7. QR Code Classroom Implementation Guide QR Codes in the Classroom are valuable for mainly 3 reasons. Read further to explore these reasons.
8. Smartphones Remaking the Way Men Work and Live Smartphones are remaking the lives of their male users, according to a new survey from Spike TV. The study found that men are unabashedly in love with their smartphones, a borderline addictive relationship that has empowered and also distracted men in both small and profound ways.
9. Apps In Emerging Markets: One Size Doesn’t Fit All The massive growth in mobile usage in Latin America is opening up a lucrative new market for developers. But simply rehashing an app built for another region won’t cut the mustard, according to BlueVia.

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For those of you who have been bitten by the iPad bug, we have included some cool apps. Besides this, we also have some tools that will help you in mobile app development. Read it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 9 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further? You can dig into our previous lists here

1. Top 10 Challenges Of Blended Learning With the expansion of the global workforce, and the continuous shifting of global economic factors, the time for blended learning has arrived. But how do we make sure we do it right? What are the hidden challenges that can create a roadblock to success before we even roll out the program? Find it all here.
2. Informalize Formal Learning: Smarter, Closer, Simpler, and More Appealing The world is full of ever-growing complexity, while at the same time the desire for simplicity drives much behavior. Learning is no exception. Engaging users simply, directly and quickly via informal methods is key to recruiting them into more in-depth and traditional learning formats. Know how you can informalize formal learning.
3. When Learning Is The Work: Approaches For Supporting Learning In The Workplace When you think about one great learning experience you’ve had, can you remember where it occurred? Was it in a classroom or workshop, or did it occur while you were completing the task? There is a good chance that it occurred during the latter. Learn how you can support learning in the workplace by leaving the golden age of training and embracing learning in the extended workplace.
4. Mobile Learning: The Next Evolution With the introduction of new mobile products such as the iPad, iPhone 4, Droid and Windows Phone 7, it is not surprising that mobile technology growth rates have quickly surpassed other digital technologies such as radio, television, personal computers and even the Internet. The question surrounding m-learning is no longer if, but when. Know the steps to implementing a successful mobile learning strategy.
5. 10 Reasons To Use Digital Textbooks The future is here. If you’re looking for ways to cut costs as either a student or teacher, why not consider digital textbooks? There’s cheaper, easier to use, and a lot easier on the back. Here are 10 reasons why digital textbooks score a notch higher than their paper counterparts.
6. 10 Must Have iPad Apps for 2011 Much against many people’s expectations, the iPad has hit the ground running ever since its release, and with the innovative apps that have been gracing it, it’s hardly surprising. Here is a list of apps that have already been released or are soon to be released that should go some of the way towards justifying your iPad’s price tag.
7. 11 iPad Apps For Meetings And Presentations Meetings and presentations are a way of life in the business world and there’s nothing worse than dragging around a bunch of files and equipment. Here are 11 iPad apps that will make your life a tad lighter.
8. 30+ Tools For Building Mobile Apps (+ Poll!) Find over 30 services which aid in mobile app development.
9. U.S. Smartphone Market: Who’s the Most Wanted? According to the latest figures, 31 percent of consumers who plan to get a new smartphone indicated Android was now their preferred OS. Get the statistics here.

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