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80% of new phones ship with Android or iOS [Report]
We’ve written about how large Android and iOS’ combined slice of the smartphone market is before. It doesn't look like that situation's about to change any time soon.Even in a shrinking mobile phone market, the two operating systems have managed to carve out a considerable lead for themselves.In fact, new research from tech analysis company IDC suggests that over 80% of smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2011 rocked one of the two OS’.The company’s figures ...Siri changes its mind on ‘the best smartphone ever’, Nokia isn’t impressed
When you ask Siri "What is the best smartphone ever?", you'd expect it to spout some pro-Apple response like "the iPhone 4S, duh." So when Apple's personal assistant responded with "The Nokia Lumia 900", it was actually quite funny.Alas, the joke is over. If you ask the same question now, you'll be met with a response like "You're kidding, right?" or "The one you're holding." The Gearburn editor tried it out -- Siri refused to name a phone or brand, ...Digital wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft [Infographic]
I've been listening to Charles Arthur every Tuesday on the Guardian pod-cast, Tech weekly, for the past year. Arthur would mention his upcoming book whenever the tech giants of Apple, Google or Microsoft were pitched against each other in the news. Hearing Arthur in my car once a week makes me feel like I know the dude, so when he announced that his book had just been published I downloaded a copy for Kindle. The book got me thinking in ...Google makes more from Apple than Android? What a crock
UK newspaper The Guardian claims that Google's Android operating system is far less valuable than Google's revenues from Apple devices. The story was, of course, picked up and even a respected site like TheNextWeb reported it as fact.According to the newspaper:Android generated less than US$550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright ...The problem with iMessage
iMessage doesn't work.Well, that's not entirely true. It works perfectly well as a traditional text messaging replacement. To a point.The first problem with iMessage is its lack of awareness.It's a simple broadcast bus (think back to parallel connectors used to transfer data between components or computers). At its launch, Apple admitted that iMessage runs on top of its notifications engine (based on XMPP).But that's the problem: it's treating messages -- two-way communication - as what seems to be ...3 Reasons the new iPad is actually a huge deal
Apple's iPad launch hype has come and gone. A number of the speculations were proven wrong: there is no smaller iPad, there are no 3D glasses. In fact, the new iPad is essentially the same as before. There are, however, a few changes such as the high-resolution screen, fast LTE connectivity in the USA, and for some that’s all there is to the new iPad.Wrong. The new iPad is a big deal, a very big deal. In fact, in many ...eBooks: Did Apple screw us all, or save the industry?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the American Justice Department is about to sue Apple and five of the biggest book publishers in the US for colluding to raise the price of eBooks.This means that the Justice Department, which has been investigating eBook pricing since last year, has decided the parties involved violated the Sherman Act. The Sherman Act is a law that guards against business activities that lead to anti-competitive behaviour in the marketplace. The US government’s intention ...The iPad tells all, Tim Cook’s wardrobe disappointment [Comic]
I think the guys at Joy of Tech were sitting just waiting for Apple to have an event. Following the launch of the device we all thought would be called the iPad3 or iPad HD and that turned out to actually just be the iPad, Nitrozac and Snaggy put together two comics to unpack the main issues of the event.I am really glad they did, because they have addressed the elephant in the.... room? World? Whatever, they addressed an elephant ...iPad > PCs
Apple sold more iPads last quarter than any computer manufacturer in the world sold PCs. Read that again.Apple sold 15.4-million iPads between October and December. Compare this to HP (15.1-million PCs), Lenovo (13-million PCs), Dell (11.9-million PCs) and Acer (9.8-million PCs) and suddenly you’ll realise why we saw over 100 tablet competitors launched during 2011 by every hardware manufacturer.Tablets > PCs.iPad > PC.And, as much as Twitter and tech blogs tried to have you believe otherwise, the use of the ...10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch
So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday... what, you weren't in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts were all filled with journalists. Fortunately for you, they had cameras.The press has been speculating about the device for months -- everything from the name to the display and the release date has been rumoured and then passionately debated. Yesterday was the day, and the journalists wasted no ...
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