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Warner Music waits for Godot
You really can’t stress this point enough: We’re a decade past Napster, but the music industry still runs on CD sales. In Warner’s case, digital now accounts for 25 percent of overall revenue. via Warner Music Renews…
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Operators' last stand: payment platforms.
Operators “had high hopes until 2007 or 2008,” said Patrik Karrberg, a researcher in the London School of Economics’ Department of Management. The hopes dimmed after the emergence of iPhones and improved data speeds that…
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Is Android fragmented by design?
When I wrote about the absence of copyright enforcement on the Android marketplace, I was trying to point out that Google did not have the interests of copyright owners at heart. This attitutde is also apparent in many…
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Google Nexus S
Google Nexus S is real, gets leaked by Best Buy [U] | Electronista. Can you imagine Microsoft launching a Microsoft branded phone to compete with its Windows Phone licensees? When Microsoft launched the Zune, their…
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Visualizing smartphone platform growth
None of this should come as major surprises, but Gartner’s data allows for a bit more granular detail in the overall view of the market. Here are new points derived from Gartner’s sell-through data:
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The largest Android vendors
Gartner released sell-through data for the handset market. In the release appears an estimate of total Android 3Q Smartphone sales (20.5 million). Combining this with what some of the vendors have reported in terms of…
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Were Nokia and Symbian always inter-dependent?
Several readers pointed out that in my discussion on the market share of modular vs. inter-dependent market shares for smartphones, Nokia was incorrectly classified as having an inter-dependent software architecture…
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Android remains the only mobile OS still patterned after Microsoft's 2002 vision of the mobile value chain
Belfiore wasn’t shy about criticizing Google’s Android OS. Even though Google currently dominates the mobile OS market, its strategy of licensing the Android OS to manufacturers is similar to Microsoft’s previous…
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HTC to re-bone Android?
Peter Chou, chief executive of HTC, had previously said he saw “little value” in HTC running its own application store. But he has also said that it was no longer enough for HTC to simply customise the standard Android…
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Citizen Publisher
In March this year Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, was speaking about the iPad. For a while many movies were more like filmed plays, until directors really learned to take advantage of the…