From the monthly archives:

October 2009

The One Million Application Store

October 28, 2009

The iPhone App Store is now over the 90,000 mark, and marching inexorably towards 100,000. Responding to my and Scoble’s posts on the App Store numbers, John highlights the fact that I think I alluded to in my post: That the position is very similar to the old world of Mac vs PC from the [...]

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links for 2009-10-26

October 26, 2009

Blackra1n RC2 Is Released, ‘New’ iPhone 3GS And iPod Touch Now Supported Gentlemen, start your jailbreaks! Blackra1n jailbreaks all current iPhones, including 3GS, in one click. (tags: apple iphone) Lenovo Ideapad U150 11.6 inch laptop unboxed – Video Note: This is, apparently, Not A Netbook. (tags: notebooks lenovo netbooks) Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu [...]

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Scoble is right about iPhone users. But the game isn’t over yet

October 26, 2009

Robert Scoble has a post up about why Apple’s key advantage is the breadth of the app store. And he’s right – but the game isn’t over yet. 85,000 is the headline figure, and what it allows Apple to leverage is a classic “long tail of usefulness”. For me, 99.99% of those applications are (to [...]

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iPod sales still growing in Europe

October 21, 2009

In an interesting interview with The Guardian, Apple Europe head Pascal Cagni revealed that iPod sales are still going up in Europe: “We are always worried about a fall. In Europe we don’t yet have a fall. We believe we need to carry the message out there much better. In Europe we have growth while [...]

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Windows 2009 = Macintosh 2001 (well, nearly)

October 21, 2009

It took Microsoft six years, from the release of the first Mac in 1984 to the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990, to make something that matched Apple. It’s taken them eight years, from the release of Mac OS X 10.0 to the release of Windows 7, to get close again. Welcome,  Windows 7. Seriously.

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links for 2009-10-21

October 21, 2009

Conde Nast Tries Turning the App Store Into a Newsstand: Will You Buy GQ For Your iPhone? The future of publishing is applications. This is just another example of a step along this road. (tags: publishing iphone)

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The rise of the super-middlemen

October 21, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Ken Doctor on Rupert’s attempt to get people to pay for news: “When you hear Murdoch and other publishers justifiably scream about Jeff Bezos’ hard bargain — he keeps customer relationships and 70% of the revenue — you understand that they see the multi-platform future becoming real and want to be in [...]

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Apple declares war on the entire PC industry | Betanews

October 20, 2009

Joe Wilcox, on how Apple is declaring war on the entire PC industry: “I’m on record as asserting that Windows 7′s release will stall Mac market share gains. My reasoning: Windows 7 netbooks are sure to drive up PC unit volumes. But market share is but one measure of success. Yesterday there was an interesting [...]

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Beleaguered Apple releases yet more machines

October 20, 2009

Once upon a time, every article about Apple seemed to begin with the word “beleaguered”. It became something of a journalistic cliche when I was working on MacUser. We only used it when taking the mickey out of the kinds of journalists that used it. How far Apple has come since those days. When Apple [...]

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There’s a whaaat on the new iMac?

October 20, 2009

Michael Gartenberg: “One other interesting feature is the display port is bi-directional, the first time I’ve seen this. Not only can you easily add a second monitor but you can actually now use a Macbook to output to the 27″ display. That’s going to open up some rather interesting usage scenarios. I’ll have full review [...]

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