PocketCloud, an application powered by Wyse Technology, is now available to run on Android devices, expanding beyond the iPhone. This new version will be displayed at VMware’s VMworld show in San Francisco this week. Last year at the same show, PocketCloud for iPhone and iPod Touch was launched. An extension for iPad PC tablets was released in April, when the iPad first came on the scene.
With PocketCloud, you can have remote access to your PCs and desktops from your wireless devices. End-user machines can also be accessed via Apple and Android devices through this software.
“We’ve seen a surprisingly large number of consumers buying the app,” according to Jeff McNaught, chief marketing and strategy officer and chief customer advocate at Wyse. Over the past year, PocketCloud has become one of the top-10 application installed by more than 110,000 users.
Since Android is a large and growing market, analysts foresee Google’s mobile platform encroaching on the Apple iOS market. Analysts predict that it might outdo Apple’s iOS by 2012.
The new PocketCloud for Andriod and the enhanced version of Apple iOS are now available in their respective marketplaces, with an auto-discovery feature has made it in such a way that those who do not have much technical knowledge can install it with ease. “We’ve made this so simple. All you need is two words you already know, and you can access your PC,” since the Gmail name and password for PocketCloud is the same as the ones used for PC and mobile device.
PocketCloud 2.0 for Apple’s iOS has a premium version which offers further interacting with multimedia and enables remote streaming of video files like MPEG, WMV and AVI over WiFi and 3G from any desktop.
Promotional Price is at $14.99 just like before with 3 and 6 months try-out period at $2.99 and $9.99 respectively available at iTunes App Store. A free version with reduced functionality is also available.
The company is now focusing on software when it has been known for its thin client-hardware. Just recently, Wyse broke out to establish a reputation in cloud computing and unified communications area. Some of its existing partners in the field are Citrix System, VMware, Microsoft and Cisco Systems. According to Wyse CEO Tarkan Maner:
“Our story was a hardware story for many, many years. For the last five or six years, we’ve been focusing on software. The bottom line is that the differentiator is software. I do not have any hardware engineers in my company.”
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