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January 5, 2010

Nokia Plans to Patch Hole From Iceberg by 2011

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Nokia — William_T_Goodall @ 15:32

Nokia executive vice-president Rick Simonson, in an interview with The Economic Times:

By 2011, our efforts will start producing results, as we will be
at par with Apple and RIM in smartphones. Not only we draw level
with them, we will also win the war because, in addition to email,
we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several
other features, which will soon become very critical for success
of any company in this space.

Even with where Apple (and RIM) will be in 2011, or even with where they were in 2009? And in what way have “content, chat, music, and entertainment” not been key factors in the iPhone’s success since 2007?

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[From Nokia Plans to Patch Hole From Iceberg by 2011]

Nokia are thrashing.

January 4, 2010

Nokia sues Apple (again)

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Nokia — William_T_Goodall @ 20:58

Finns to match Apple ‘by 2011’ Nokia has beefed up its legal challenge to Apple, filing a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Cupertino in US District Court in Delaware. This time around, the Finnish outfit says that Apple stole patents that make Nokia unique, including patents for a camera phone and a touch-screen display.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud [From Nokia sues Apple (again)]

Smacks of desperation.

January 3, 2010

Bruce Sterling’s State Of The World 2010

Filed under: Books,iOS,IT,Science,Superstition,Trivia,www — William_T_Goodall @ 15:13

“For the eleventh time, Inkwell rings in the New Year with a visit from Bruce Sterling, to address the State of the World and Things Various and Sundry…” Always good fun. [From Bruce Sterling’s State Of The World 2010]

December 30, 2009

Nokia expands claim against Apple

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Nokia — William_T_Goodall @ 19:18

Nokia ramps up its legal fight against Apple, claiming that almost all of its products infringe its patents. [From Nokia expands claim against Apple]

I guess the next move is for Apple to dig up even more patents it claims Nokia infringes. Apple has been in the computer business a lot longer than Nokia has been in the phone business, and smartphones are computers.

December 28, 2009

Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth From November To December

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 09:10

As predicted here on MobileCrunch earlier this month, Apple rocked it this holiday season, and the early numbers are showing it. According to Flurry, the biggest mobile app analytics company, iPod Touch download volume saw a nearly 1,000% jump in downloads on Christmas Day. Overall, the App Store saw a 51% increase in downloads from November to December (downloads only increased by 15% from October to November). Christmas also marked the first day that iPod Touch app downloads surpassed iPhone app downloads, which makes sense (the iPod Touch is a more common gift than an iPhone; more on that later). Furthermore, the Android Market saw a nice 20% bump in app sales as well, sparked primarily by an uptick in downloads from the Motorola Droid. Read the rest of this post at MobileCrunch >> Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.[From Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth From November To December]

The field is shaking out.

December 23, 2009

Software development’s winners and losers, 2009 edition

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Microsoft,Nokia,www — William_T_Goodall @ 12:13

In 2009, the computers got smaller, the databases got bigger, and HTML’s dominance grew. None of these trends are new, and some of these changes are as old as computers themselves, but the magnitudes are greater or smaller than ever before. Here are the winners and losers we spotted on the software development landscape in 2009. For the programmers, alas, many of the year’s ups had downsides. [From Software development’s winners and losers, 2009 edition]

Pontification and punditry for the end of the year. Some good points, some interesting links.

December 22, 2009

Will developers be the next battleground in smartphones?

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Microsoft — William_T_Goodall @ 15:11

A couple of weeks ago, Gartner issued a market report indicating that Microsoft’s share of the smartphone market had fallen to less than 8 percent in the last year, while Apple and RIM both made significant gains. Microsoft is at risk of falling into last place in mobile phones if it doesn’t do something about it. So what’s the one strength Microsoft can bring to the table? [From Will developers be the next battleground in smartphones?]

Commercial developers follow the money, and there’s little money in Microsoft mobile compared to iPhone. FOSS developers develop for Android first and Microsoft last.

December 21, 2009

Steve Jobs named world’s best CEO

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Microsoft — William_T_Goodall @ 22:16

Redmond’s Steve? Not so much The prestigious Harvard Business Review has published a ranking of the world’s best-performing CEOs, and we’ll give you one guess as to who is El Numero Uno.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud [From Steve Jobs named world’s best CEO]

And Steve Ballmer isn’t in the top 100.

December 18, 2009

iPhone Claims 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 16:16

MobileCrunch details a research report [Google translation] released last week by Japanese market research firm Impress R&D showing that the iPhone commands 46.1% of the smartphone market there.For this year, Impress sees the 3G comm… [From iPhone Claims 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market]

So much for those ‘iPhone fails to catch on in Japan’ stories that were going around.

December 16, 2009

“Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination

Filed under: Apple,iOS,IT,Microsoft,Nokia — William_T_Goodall @ 15:46

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet, Apple, iPhone, iPod touch

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has an excellent article over at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog on Morgan Stanley’s The Mobile Internet seminar. The article is full of juicy tidbits, but here is the main course:

Based on past performance, according to Morgan Stanley, Apple is in the “pole position” in the race to dominate mobile Internet computing, which is supposed to be for the 2000s what desktop Internet computing was for the 1990s, personal computing for the 1980s, mini computing for the 1970s, and mainframe computing for the 1960s.

“Apple has a two or three-year lead” according to Katy Huberty, thanks to an installed base of 57 million handsets, 100,000 apps and 200 million iTunes subscribers with credit card numbers on file.
Another interesting tidbit that DeWitt spotlights is a diagram that compares Facebook’s 350,000 apps and 137% year-over-year growth with the iPhone’s 100,000 apps and 163% growth. As DeWitt points out, “The place where Mark Zuckerberg’s 430 million users overlap with Steve Jobs’ 57 million is the sweet spot of the mobile Internet. It’s here, according to Morgan Stanley, where we find the future of computing.”

Be sure to check out DeWitt’s article, as it’s a great read, but if you want to delve deeper, you can check out the 92 slides of the Morgan Stanley presentation, the 659-slide “key themes” presentation, and the massive 424-page Mobile Internet Report, all in PDF format.TUAW”Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments [From “Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination]

Nokia’s response to the iPhone may work or not. Microsoft doesn’t seem to have one yet, and is pressed on the other side by Android.

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