Apple on Thursday overtook PetroChina Co. in terms of market value, making the Cupertino, Calif., company the second-largest company in the world.[From Apple now the world’s second largest company by market value]
That’s quite big 🙂
September 24, 2010
Apple now the world’s second largest company by market value
September 13, 2010
How Good Is Gartner at Predicting Smartphone Market Share?
So good that in 2006, they predicted that Windows Mobile was poised to take over the industry and attract the most developers.
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[From How Good Is Gartner at Predicting Smartphone Market Share?]
That’s a hoot 🙂
September 9, 2010
Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines [Apple]
In a surprising announcement, and after receiving countless criticisms by developers and users, Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.” More » [From Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines [Apple]]
I guess they think the app ecosystem is strong enough now that Apple won’t get blamed for poor software development tools from third parties. And they can say I told you so if it happens.
September 7, 2010
Apple’s iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform
Apple’s iOS mobile operating system rocketed past the open source Linux this summer to become the third most popular Web browsing platform on the Internet.[From Apple’s iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform]
Maybe next year will be the year of Linux 🙂
September 6, 2010
What’s New in iOS 4.1
Detailed list from Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac.
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[From What’s New in iOS 4.1]
They are busy.
August 31, 2010
Etc: Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD will be coming to the Mac this fall, along with a companion iOS app for iPhone and iPad.
Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD will be coming to the Mac this fall, along with a companion iOS app for iPhone and iPad.
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Pricey. The CAD market on OS X will get a bit of a shakeup.
August 27, 2010
BBC iPlayer Usage, iOS vs. Android 2.2 Devices
From a Freedom of Information request in the UK:
In July 2010 6,400 programmes were streamed from the BBC iPlayer to Android devices. […]
In July 2010 there were 5,272,464 programmes requested via the BBC iPlayer from Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices.
Why so striking a difference? Because Android users can only access iPlayer using Flash, Flash is only available on Android 2.2, and the overwhelming majority of Android handsets — even brand-new ones — are still running older versions of the OS.
But, of course, there are no iOS users with Flash installed. That’s what I see as the main problem with Android’s official support for Flash: it gives providers like the BBC an easy way out. Would there exist a dedicated iPlayer app for the iPhone if iOS had supported Flash all along? Does Android’s support for Flash make it less likely that the BBC will develop a native iPlayer app for Android?
(And wouldn’t you like to see a battery life comparison between iPlayer on an iPhone 4 and a few Android phones running the Flash version?)
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So much for Flash 🙂
August 22, 2010
The app market, by the numbers
The very insightful Stuart Dredge over at Mobile Entertainment has compiled an amazing primer on all of the numbers behind the app market (which you can also see by clicking the “Read More” link, although it’s not viewable on an iPad or iPhone). If you want to know anything about how many apps are rolling out of the store, how many apps are installed on the average device, or what kinds of apps those are, Dredge’s presentation will tell you. It’s a really excellent compilation of everything we know about the App Store and the app market at large thus far.
I don’t think anything here is new or really that surprising. We already know that Apple is, by far, leading the race on number of apps (both created and sold), and we’ve heard before that games tend to do very well on the marketplace in a number of demographics. The end of the report has some great numbers, too, on standout applications like Angry Birds and the eBay app.
Otherwise, it’s basically a big round-up of a lot of the stats that we’ve heard so far. But having them all in one place gives a nice overview of just how big this little software ecosystem has become.TUAWThe app market, by the numbers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments [From The app market, by the numbers]
August 6, 2010
Ballmer’s ‘lost generation’ note finds resonance
Bad, getting worse – for Windows At least one seasoned analyst agrees with Steve Ballmer’s admission Microsoft has “lost a generation” of users — but from this number-cruncher’s point of view, the situation is worse than Microsoft’s CEO concedes.… [From Ballmer’s ‘lost generation’ note finds resonance]
I have doubts about some of the numbers in this story but I did predict a couple of decades ago that UNIX would eventually win the platform wars and Mac OS X and Linux are both *NIX OSs. And modern Windows is a sort-of descendant of VMS 🙂
July 21, 2010
Apple Is the New Microsoft, Part 2
Apple surpassed Microsoft two months ago as the world’s most highly valued tech company, and is now challenging the Redmond giant on another key metric: In a blowout third quarter, AAPL posted record revenue of $15.7 billion, which should be close to or exceed what Microsoft reports Thursday. [From Apple Is the New Microsoft, Part 2]
That would be two out of three. How long until Apple overtakes Microsoft on profit too?
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Next quarter then 🙂