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300k apps have been approved for the iTunes app store
Following up on the 300k app prediction: via iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, Deals and Discovery at App Shopper – Popular Recent Changes. Note the near 24k apps for iPad.
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Announcing Asymco Data Downloads
Much of what is published here relies on data, lots of data. It’s important that data be published along with conclusions, but data in spreadsheets is often difficult to read. Spreadsheets are not “productized” so they…
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The End of Management – WSJ.com
When I asked members of The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, a group of chief executives who meet each year to deliberate on issues of public interest, to name the most influential business book they had read, many…
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The Android SKU paradox
Next month will be the 24th since the first Android device launched in October 2008. The G1 was followed by another HTC device in February of 2010 and a few others in the spring. The summer of ’09 showed a steady release…
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Mobile devices overtaking PCs
Smartphones, or Mobile devices, will soon become the dominant computing platform for humanity and supplant the PC which has reigned since Apple ignited the Personal Computer revolution in the late 1970’s. via The numbers…
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Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess – PCWorld
From a comment in the article below: I installed HTC’s leaked version of 2.2 on my incredible last month. It has been noticeably faster, has better battery life, and the extra features are nice. As expected, Verizon put…
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Microsoft CIO on Android vs. iPhone: Windows Phone will dominate
The OS market in the mobile space is dominated by other players. Is that a cause of worry? I think it’s a temporary issue. I don’t put a lot of face and snapshot and time into what is going on. On a global basis, I see…
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The Android abdication
When I wrote about Android’s pursuit of the biggest losers, I made the explicit claim, backed by data, that Android was most attractive to device vendors who were in financial distress. Android is a lifeline to sustain…
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Analysts' categorical failure
Gartner explicitly explained so in its press release: “Gartner’s PC group does not track media tablet sales in this PC shipment data, so iPad sales are not included in these results via Is Apple the real U.S. PC market…
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Dell's running
Once the pride and joy of the world’s largest computer systems builder, consumer products now make up just 18% of Dell’s total sales. That’s probably a good thing in the long run, because this segment is notoriously…