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Is the App Store heading for legal trouble?

November 13, 2009

Fraser Speirs thinks yes, and I think he might be right. Last year I posed a simple question: “But what happens if Apple’s market share grows to the point where it has a monopoly – 70-, 80- or even 90% market share? That might take ten years, but it’s certainly not beyond the realms of [...]

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Come, gentle readers: Help me buy a new phone (Part 2)

November 3, 2009

Having vented about my frustration with the iPhone, it’s time to look at the other two contenders: Android, and Palm Pre. Android Ahh, the gentle, warm embrace of the Googleverse. Who could resist? Well, me for a start. While I like some of Google’s apps, I tend to sneer at them a bit too. Outside [...]

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

October 19, 2009

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 Spotify account for the two year lifetime of the contract. And, by strange coincidence, it’s [...]

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“Please don’t call this an iPhone killer”

June 25, 2009

The phrase “touch screen phone” is synonymous with “iPhone” in some people’s minds. That’s tough on the other phone manufacturers, but indicates the extent to which Apple has managed to dominate the market – if not in sales, at least in marketing. But the Apple way of making a touchscreen phone, which focuses on the [...]

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Apple owns the touchscreen phone conversation

April 5, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I went along to a blogger’s briefing on the new LG Arena a couple of evenings ago, and – of course – the iPhone came up as a topic of questions and conversation. What struck me was the way that Apple has managed to come in and completely dominate [...]

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