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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..

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…