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Category Archives: iPhone
And that’s why there will never be Flash on the iPhone
The Wall Street Journal story on Steve Jobs’ statement on Flash includes some telling quotes: Dave Wolf, vice president of strategy at Cynergy Systems Inc., a Washington, D.C., design firm, calls Apple’s no-Flash policy “a pain.” Mr. Wolf had planned … Continue reading
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Has Gizmodo broken the law with its iPhone story?
I am not a lawyer. But I do play one on the weekends. More importantly, over the years I’ve become intimately familiar with the law as it affects journalists on both sides of the pond. I’ve covered cases like the … Continue reading
Sometimes, closed is better than open
Daily Kos: State of the Nation: “I was a PC gamer, but the current generation of dedicated gaming consoles took care of that. My Xbox, despite being made by Microsoft, is stable, fast, and runs my games perfectly. How could … Continue reading
The best summary of the Apple/Adobe war
Want a a simple, single-paragraph on what the Apple/Adobe iPhone spat is all about? Jean Louis Gassee supplies it: “Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe and other cross-platform application development tools control his I mean … Continue reading
Apple’s quest for massive market share
John Gruber has an excellent post up on Apple’s apparent-restriction of cross-platform development tools on the iPhone. I largely agree with him – from Apple’s perspective this makes perfect sense, although it puts a massive spanner in the works for … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone
Tagged Apple, Daring Fireball, development, iPhone, iPod, John Gruber
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No, app developers aren’t “switching” from iPhone to Android
Learning to write link baiting headlines is a very good method of learning how to spot them. And I expect that the latest AdMob report on mobile application development will draw a few linkbaiting headlines, such as MobileMarketingWatch’s “AdMob: 70% … Continue reading
Is crapware invading Android?
One of the things that fascinates me about the way that the smartphone market is developing is whether it is following a similar path to the PC market. It’s easy to see the conflict between Apple and Google, for example, … Continue reading
Posted in Google, iPhone, Mobile
Tagged Android, Apple, Google, HTC, HTC Corporation, iPhone, Smartphone, Vodafone
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Is it time for Apple to open up the App Store model?
I don’t often link to Daring Fireball, basically because I assume that you’re all reading it anyway. But in his post on Tits and Apps, John perfectly summarises the challenge that faces Apple in maintaining its mindshare with mobile developers: … Continue reading
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Tagged App Store, Apple, AppStore, iPhone, John Gruber
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Good luck with making money from Android apps
Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25% – app stores – Gizmodo: App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For … Continue reading
Posted in Google, iPhone, Mobile
Tagged Android, App Store, Apple, developers, Distimo, Google, iPhone, Smartphones
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Nokia app store passes one million downloads a day mark
Brand Republic: Nokia‘s Ovi application store is now attracting one million downloads a day around the world, the company has claimed.The store was launched in May last year, allowing the handset manufacturer to join the progress in apps being made … Continue reading
