{"id":38,"date":"2010-10-31T05:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vanitypoint.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-10-31T05:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T12:42:37","slug":"apple-fourth-largest-mobile-phone-manufacturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/mobile-application-development\/apple-fourth-largest-mobile-phone-manufacturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Now the Fourth Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selling 14.1 million iPhones last quarter, Apple jumped ahead of RIM to become the fourth largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a not so distant 5th position, RIM followed up with a powerful 12.4 million phones sold.\u00a0 With these two developers making nothing but smartphones it clearly shows how crucial a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">mobile marketing strategy<\/a> is to firms right now. Does your business have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">iPhone application<\/a>? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">BlackBerry application<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>With massive growth in this sector it is crucial to develop a plan to address your company&#8217;s need to engage in the mobile market.\u00a0 Whether you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">develop a mobile application<\/a> or take advantage of opportunities to advertise on other firms&#8217; applications, there is a vast opportunity in front of savvy firms.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else firms need to address the need to at a minimum have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">mobile friendly web site<\/a>. More and more, firms without mobile applications or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">mobile friendly web sites<\/a> will be considered out of touch and be ignored by savvy consumers that recognize firms that aren&#8217;t keeping up with the times.<\/p>\n<p>Well designed mobile application have proved to be a great move for firms like Pizza Hut, who reported making an extra $1 million in revenue in the first 3 months of releasing their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">iPhone application<\/a>. The opportunities for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitypoint.com\">developing powerful mobile applications<\/a> are only increasing as sales numbers continue to grow and smartphones are in more and more hands everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling 14.1 million iPhones last quarter, Apple jumped ahead of RIM to become the fourth largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world. In a not so distant 5th position, RIM followed up with a powerful 12.4 million phones sold.\u00a0 With these two developers making nothing but smartphones it clearly shows how crucial a mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,6,5,4],"tags":[53,54,51,48,49],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry-app-developer","category-blackberry-application-development","category-iphone-app-development","category-iphone-applications","category-mobile-application-development","tag-blackberry-app-developer","tag-blackberry-application-development","tag-ipad-application-development","tag-iphone-app-development","tag-iphone-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}