Monday, March 7, 2011

Week 6 - Operating Systems

            The app, “Self-Checkout” will be available to any smartphone devices such as iPhone, Android, and Windows phone. All devices have different operating systems but the app will be able to support any of them. The iPhone operates on MAC OS and other phones are operating on Microsoft. The main job of what operating system does is that it manages resources between hardware and software. It also provides a way for software applications to work with the hardware without having to know the details.
            When our company is trying to launch the app on the App Store for iPhone and market for Android phones, there are different processes we need to go through. To launch the app on Market for Android phones, we can easily upload it without any consent. This is because Android is an open source which means it is made available to public and anyone can copy, modify, and redistribute. However, in order for our company to launch an app on App Store for iPhones, we need approval from the Apple Company. If we were to upload an updated version of the app on App Store, it could take about two weeks, if not more to get the approval from Apple and have it available to consumers.
            After getting feedbacks from consumers, our company might try to update a version where you can multitask within the app. For example, once you scan an item you will be able to check-out at the same time without having to search for a place where you need to check out. Consumers’ feedbacks will be very helpful for our company to come up with different ideas on how we can improve this innovation. If we could get this app to multitask, it would draw more people’s attention.

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