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iPhone

Whoa. IPhone accounts for more than 80% of AT&T smartphone sales

January 26, 2012

IPhone accounts for more than 80 percent of AT&T smartphone sales: AT&T posted its fourth quarter results for 2011 on Thursday and highlighted smartphone sales in particular, which reached a record high of 9.4 million devices, beating the standing company record by 50 percent. Apple should be very happy with those results, too, since 7.6 million, or [...]

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For developers, Android users aren’t the same as iPhone users

January 10, 2012

John Gruber on the difference between Android users and iOS users: The truth is, the average Android user is not the same as an average iPhone user. iPhone users surf the web more, they’re more willing to buy software, they’re more willing to install and use apps. Some of these stats aren’t even close. What [...]

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Scrivener for iOS – coming soon(ish)

December 24, 2011

Here’s an early Christmas present for me and for quite a few of my friends and colleagues: Scrivener, the marvellous long-form writing tool for Mac, is coming to iPad and iPhone: It’s still early days, though – we are about to embark on the design process proper, and all we can say in terms of [...]

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The future of Siri

October 26, 2011

Oh yes: Siri could be the interface to future products, like tiny little Nano-sized devices, or home entertainment systems. I think the people thinking of putting Siri on to the Mac, Apple TV or iPad aren’t thinking big enough. Imagine a Nano with Siri, and you’re closer to the mark of where Apple is going.

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Sometimes John Gruber just hits the spot perfectly

April 27, 2011

John Gruber arguing against the silliness that is Henry “Fraud, you say?” Blodget’s latest nonsense: “Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world.” Exactly.

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Apple is dead in the water, redux

April 26, 2011

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian on an IDC/Appcelerator survey of developers: “App developer interest is shifting back toward Apple as fragmentation and “tepid” interest in current Android tablets chips away at Google’s recent gains in momentum, according to a new survey of more than 2,700 developers around the world. In the survey, 91% of developers said [...]

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So what does that location database on your phone really do?

April 21, 2011

Jim Smith, who knows a thing or two about mobile, pokes around in the controversial consolidated.db database on the iPhone and comes up with this: “I’m pretty certain that consolidated.db is used to seed the assisted GPS used for iOS location servers. If you open the map, or check in via FourSquare, it will look [...]

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Nieman Journalism lab responds to John Gruber

March 2, 2011

Nieman Journalism Lab responds to John Gruber’s defence of the 30% Apple subscription take: “But if someone searches for and downloads The New York Times app — after the Times has spent more than a century building up its brand, as the cost of billions of dollars — can it really be said that Apple [...]

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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

February 18, 2011

Brilliant comment from “Chucky” on a post from from Michael Tsai: Microsoft in 1997 had a very specific corporate strategy. They had a temporary situation of great market leverage. And rather than concentrating on making better products for their users, they began to concentrate on two objectives: 1 Using their leverage to avoid the rise [...]

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This is why Apple’s subscription system fails for consumers

February 17, 2011

From Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up | paidContent: “We have a fair and open approach for customers whereby we offer digital access to FT journalism for one price and enable access across multiple platforms for no additional fee. It is necessary to have a direct relationship with the customer to [...]

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