Samsung wants its apps to look like Apple's

Samsung has set to work in an attempt to find developers capable of making their applications "as good as Apple's", and for this it has prepared a kind of contest in which it will invest a whopping U.S. dollar 800.000 as an endowment distributed between the winner, the three second places and the six third places. The winning candidates will become 'galaxy apps'.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Samsung wants to form a small ecosystem of its own applications with which to work on different platforms. Android It has ceased to be a reference in the keynotes of the Korean firm, which now focus more and more on showing those characteristics that differentiate their products on the basis of "unique" characteristics.

The problem is that, despite his imposing dominance within the universe Android and even, in general, in the global smartphone market, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it is still the preferred brand of high-end users. This advantage of the apple over its rivals is built, in part, on the services of the ecosystem. iOS. The fact that Young Sohn, one of the senior managers of Samsung, recognize use Apple products at home it is already symptomatic of the perception that the Korean firm has of the advantage that its competitor has in this area.

To remedy this situation, Samsung intends to collect a limited number of quality applications, and for that it has launched a call in which it will award U.S. dollar 200.000 to the best of the apps that are presented. The second three will have a prize of 100.000 each and the six third of $ 50.000, according to publishes iDownloadBlog.

Although the contest is called Smart App Challenge for Android, the objective is to develop applications that operate exclusively on the Galaxy, taking advantage of some of the specifications that work between Samsung devices, such as the transfer and synchronization of data and messages via AllShare or Kies Air.

However, it would be rare for some of the applications to be ported to other platforms in the future, as is the case, for example, with S Notes, which also works on Windows.

Do you think Apple has better applications than Samsung? Is this type of contest an effective way to catch up with the competition?