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bit of a stretch, that

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Posted on December 24th, 2011

Daring Fireball, quoting Amit Runchal on android activations; The last time Rubin talked about Android activations was back in June, when he said that 500,000 devices were being activated daily, and that they were seeing week-to-week activation growth of 4.4%. There’ve been about 25 weeks between the two tweets. Some quick math reveals that week-to-week growth since June hasn’t been anywhere close to the 4.4% Rubin was seeing. It’s now closer to 1.4%. Probably a bit of a stretch to say that Horace’s graph seems to be tapering off..

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losing market share to Android

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Posted on December 21st, 2011

Losing market share is like the 90′s rearing its ugly head all over again. Market share is meaningful in some contexts, like when you’re competing with a monopoly like Microsoft, or struggling to sell burgers in an environment dominated by cheap and cheerful franchisees. According to new numbers from the NPD Group, the iPhone 4S launch delay didn’t hurt Apple from a sales perspective. Over a year past launch, the iPhone 4 was the top selling phone in all of Q3 2011, with the two-year-old iPhone 3GS coming in at number two. Interestingly, the HTC EVO 4G, Motorola Droid 3, and Samsung Intensity II, hardly the latest and greatest devices, rounded out the top five. While some consumers may have waited for the latest…

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But it's open, right?

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Posted on December 17th, 2011

Jamie Lendino at PCMag.com; With Android, it seems to depend on the phone vendor, the specific model, the wireless carrier, the Android version itself, and whether Google sent the carrier an inflatable plastic food product as a token of its appreciation that week. Worse—and much to our chagrin—sometimes vendors make promises to customers before the sale that they don’t keep once you own the phone. I choose which version of software to run on my device, not my provider.  I know the side of this issue I’m on.  Just pitiful.

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Why torture yourself?

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Posted on December 8th, 2011

John Gruber doesn’t buy the argument that Android 4.0 will force developers to build software for it, “like it or not”: “Whether you like Android or not, you will support that platform” sounds a little arrogant, but maybe that’s just me. But it got me thinking. Maybe “whether you like Android or not” is exactly wrong. I think maybe the biggest reason iOS has such strong developer support is that developers like iOS. They use and prefer iPhones and iPads personally, they like Cocoa, and they like the App Store. I tend to agree. I love the iPad, I love using it, I love creating things using it. I’m not even a developer (per se) but this thing makes me want to whip out…

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No sign of inflection, just yet

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Posted on December 7th, 2011

The numbers just keep adding up. Horace gives us the update on the US mobile phone market: The growth of smartphones reached 38.5%. The penetration should reach 50% by September 2012, with about 1.2% converting each month 50% by Q3 next year? Now is the time to be releasing that killer app, that great mobile web experience, those game changing interfaces and the next big thing. I hope you’re all hard at work..!

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Let's pick a phone

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Posted on December 4th, 2011

Sebastiaan de With (author of the marvelous cocoia blog) recently made a small poster visualising the many flavours of android available in the US. Consumer choice is appallingly complex, with so many variables and trade-offs it’s hard to decide where you should draw the line. I’ve been considering a new Android phone recently, for a number of reasons but mainly to have a decent camera with me more often than not. I’ve found it increasingly frustrating! How are you meant to memorise names like Samsung Galaxy S™ II Epic™ 4G Touch or any of the many hundreds of equally forgettable variants on that? I’m all for flexibility, choice and competition in the — but this is ridiculous. It almost makes me yearn for the days…

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