14 DAY TRIAL // Reportlinker.com has beefed up its portfolio with a new market research report that focuses on iOS 5 and iCloud and their implications for the future trends of mobile OS platforms, as well as the subsequent challenges for iOS competitors and software developers.
Reportlinker says that Apple’s unveiling of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011 was a bid to compete head to head with the Google Android OS.
Whether that’s true or not, they add that Apple's iCloud was launched to replace MobileMe, the former suite of web services that charged customers $99 a year.
“The releases of iOS 5 and iCloud are expected to begin to take their toll on the industry,” says Reportlinker, who has worked up a report that “analyses innovations and new business models of iOS5 and iCloud and the subsequent challenges for iOS competitors and software developers.”
The paper basically looks at what’s new in iOS 5 and what are the implications of those new features.
For example, what iMessage is going to do to SMS as we know it, or the Apple-Twitter partnership, which Reportlinker regards as a move to prevent Facebook's dominance of Social Networks.
Major companies and organizations analyzed or mentioned in the report include Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft. The full table of contents includes:
1.Background 2.New iOS 5 Features and Their Implications 2.1 Implications for iOS Competitors 2.1.1 Notification Center Helping iOS Keep Pace with Android OS 2.1.2 iMessage to Help Apple Make Inroads into Telecom Business 2.1.2.1 Bridging Apple's Gap in Telecom Software 2.1.2.2 Providing Seamless Communications across Devices 2.1.3 Newsstand Eroding Market Share of Amazon Kindle 2.1.4 Apple-Twitter Partnership to Prevent Facebook's dominance of Social Networks 2.2 Implications for Software Developers 2.2.1 Opportunities Generated by Aligning with Apple's Product Development Plan 3.Insight into iCloud New Business Model 3.1 iCloud Highlighting iOS Features to Other Apple Devices 4.Conclusion 4.1 iOS Devices Makes Mobile Office into Reality 4.2 Integration Key Focus for Apple, to Drive Demand for Other iOS Devices 4.3 Competition between Apple and Android Intensifying; Higher Entry Barriers for New Incomers
Get the full report here.