Tag Archives: Android

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

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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

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Fred Wilson’s brave mobile experiment

Fred Wilson did something brave: he dictated a blog post using the voice recognition system on his Nexus One, and posted the unedited results. It was, to say the least, less than stellar: “I am dictating this blog post via … Continue reading

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Idiot post of the day (The Return of TechCrunch edition)

OK, I wasn’t going to do this. Even I had got bored. But MG Siegler’s post on how “Apple and Google just tag teamed the US Carriers” is just breathtakingly stupid. MG, I know that you’re desperate to justify your … Continue reading

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Idiot post of the day

Sadly, because I generally enjoy his writing, it’s from Robert Cringely: “iPhone and Android will be here for the long haul with the question being which of Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry will die?” Answer: None of them. There … Continue reading

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Stewart Alsop says dumb things, get attention

Image via CrunchBase Stewart Alsop is having many problems with his Motorola Droid: “The software (Google’s Android plus apps both from Google and from other developers) doesn’t work and is unacceptable on a mobile device.” Only thing is that these … Continue reading

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There’s these great cut-down computers, right…

Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle: “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things … Continue reading

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Come, gentle readers: Help me buy a new phone (Part 1)

Within the next month, my contract with o2 runs out – and that means it’s new phone time. However for the first time since the release of the iPhone, I face a serious choice: do I stick with iPhone, or … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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3′s Spotify/Android deal could be a game-changer

Image via CrunchBase Quick heads up on this, and I’ll probably write more later, but 3 is apparently going to do a bundle of the HTC Hero Android phone (widely-regarded as the best of the current crop) with a premium … Continue reading

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