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Good luck with making money from Android apps

February 25, 2010

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 one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Or, to put it another [...]

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Sync your Mac with an LG phone with FoneSync

February 8, 2010

Shocking as this might sound, not everyone wants an iPhone. And if you have a phone from LG, you might want to check out FoneSync, a new application from Novamedia which lets you sync contacts and calendar information from your Mac to a variety of LG phones. At present, only three phones are compatible: The [...]

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The iPad and me

January 28, 2010

There’s a million posts around about the iPad today, and there will be a million more tomorrow. My reaction is simply that I’ll be buying one, because I’m a geek, and that’s what I do. As for whether it’s good or bad, game-breaking or Apple-breaker, that I’ve yet to learn. I learned with the iPhone [...]

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

November 21, 2009

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 on your other, primary computer — is liberating. That’s the opportunity, and that’s the idea [...]

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

November 3, 2009

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 not. Here are the runners and riders. iPhone 3GS Let’s be clear: I like the [...]

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The App Store and Macworld – Malice or stupidity?

November 3, 2009

There are two possible explanations for Apple’s rejection of Macworld’s app about the iPhone on the grounds that, erm, it mentions iPhone: Reason 1: Malice Apple rules the app store with a rod of iron. It has rejected the app because it really, truly wants to “protect its trademarks” and will punish those that fail [...]

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The One Million Application Store

October 28, 2009

The iPhone App Store is now over the 90,000 mark, and marching inexorably towards 100,000. Responding to my and Scoble’s posts on the App Store numbers, John highlights the fact that I think I alluded to in my post: That the position is very similar to the old world of Mac vs PC from the [...]

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Next quarter may be good one for Apple in European smartphone market

August 15, 2008

While the iPhone has been the big smartphone hit in the US, in Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) Nokia continues to lead the pack, with a market share figure of 71.2% according to the latest figures for Q2 2008 by Canalys. BlackBerry-maker RIM and Windows Mobile specialist HTC are in second and third place, with 7.2% and [...]

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