It has logged 500 million unit sales so far, or about 5.4 copies every second worldwide. Infraware’s Polaris Office app has become the most popular mobile office product since it launched in 2011, on the back of pre-installment deals with major Android carriers such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, LG Electronics Inc and HTC Corp. The global smartphone market is seen growing to nearly 1 billion units this year, with those operating on the Android system accounting for around 70 percent, according to analysts’ estimates. It’s made by the relatively unknown Korean firm headed by 38-year-old Kwak. I’m pretty confident this will have a major destructive impact on the market.”Īndroid users may not have noticed, but the app most of them use to read and create Microsoft Office files is not made by the U.S.
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Our app has great compatibility with Office and it will come for free for many devices. “If you look at Microsoft, they earn over 15 trillion won with Office products and they charge monthly usage fees. Then offer it for free,” Infraware chief executive Kwak Min-cheol told Reuters in an interview in Seoul. “What we’re trying to do is add cloud-based services and make the Polaris app seamlessly accessible through multiple devices. titan illustrates how small firms can outwit lumbering technology majors like Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, which has been criticised for being too slow to transfer its great advantage in office software onto mobile platforms. The contest between the $250 million Korean minnow and the $270 billion U.S. Infraware already dominates the market for office software applications on Android devices and says it now has a killer strategy to extend that domination to Apple Inc AAPL.O handsets as well - by giving its best-selling Polaris app away for free. A man is silhouetted against a video screen with the Microsoft logo in the background as he poses with a Nokia Lumia 820 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica September 3, 2013.