Free app assits clients find any restroom, gate, restaurant, store, etc. with industry’s first interactive destination maps
Point Inside™, Inc. today declared the release of version 2.0 of its free, industry-leading Destination Smart Map™ application for Android-based handsets. For the first time, Android clients have free access to interactive, searchable maps and directories of over 800 of the world’s top airports and shopping centers. No longer do people need to find a paper map or directory to locate restrooms, restaurants, stores, business lounges, etc., inside their destinations.
Point Inside Version 2.0 for Android unites its iPhone®, iPad® and iPod® Touch siblings over and above the recently released Meijer Find-it iPhone and Android applications as the first apps built on Point Inside’s destination content platform.
“We’ve been listening to customer feedback and with this new release we think Android users will see a huge improvement in the app.” supposed Kevin Foreman, CEO, Point Inside, Inc. “Not only do they now have access to all the latest airport and shopping center maps, but new destinations will be added seamlessly, without the need to update the software. Also, Android app developers can now access the underlying APIs to build their own unique experiences leveraging our maps and content platform.”
According to market research firm, Gartner Research, the Android mobile operating system is expected to be the # 2 mobile smartphone operating system in 2010 and could reach # 1 by 2014. According to Gartner, Android-based handsets will reach 17.5% market share in 2010, up from 3.9% in 2009. Apple’s iPhone operating system (iOS) will garner 15.4% of the market this year, up from 14.4% in 2009. By 2012, the research firm expects Android will challenge the Symbian OS as market-leader with 29.6 % of the market versus 30.2% for Symbian.
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