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Tag Archives: iOS
Whoa. IPhone accounts for more than 80% of AT&T smartphone sales
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 … Continue reading
A 7in tablet is not just a smaller 10.1in tablet
I’ve recently been using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, one of the newest generation of Android tablets running Honeycomb (an Ice Cream Sandwich update is in the pipeline. Even though it’s not significantly cheaper than the 10.1in Tab, I got … Continue reading
Scrivener for iOS – coming soon(ish)
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 … Continue reading
Apple is dead in the water, redux
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Web/Tech
Tagged Android, Apple, Charles Arthur, Fred Wilson, Google, Guardian, Henry Blodget, iOS, iPad, iPhone
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So what does that location database on your phone really do?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Mobile
Tagged Alasdair Allan, Apple, FourSquare, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes
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Nieman Journalism lab responds to John Gruber
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Publishing
Tagged App Store, Apple, Daring Fireball, iOS, John Gruber, New York Times, Nieman Journalism Lab
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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile, Publishing
Tagged Apple, Bill Gates, iOS, iPad, Microsoft, Publishing, Steve Jobs
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I couldn’t have put it better myself
Mathew Ingram, writing for GigaOm: “Call it a deal with the devil or whatever you want, but Apple is the one that came up with devices that are so appealing, and a content-distribution model that is so effective, that it … Continue reading
WiFi tethering and the iPhone: Battery life?
John Brownlee at CoM: “It seems likely, then, that as soon as the Verizon iPhone comes out, Apple will pump an official iOS update for all devices down the pipeline, bringing the Hotspot app to all devices, including iPads. Naturally, … Continue reading
