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Keeping it Real
From the VP of marketing for the Limo Foundation: Growth within the siloed Apple ecosystem will actually stifle the grass-roots innovation It’s interesting that this comment came on the day after Rob Glaser left Real…
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Google the Shopkeeper
The Nexus One is an HTC branded and developed phone. The only thing that Google is doing (beside the software) is acting as retailer. Still don’t see what the point is as a Web page does not make a very good retail…
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Is Android Disruptive?
The common thread among the Android fans is that Google is the agent of disruption of a hated operator business model. Since disruption is well understood (though not by many) it is fairly easy to evaluate this…
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Windows Marketplace for Mobile
One observer has posted that WMM (Microsoft’s answer to iTunes App Store) has 520 apps in it now. The store launched in Nov 1 with 281 apps. That means there will be about 300 apps added in the first two months. The…
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Nokia shutters U.S. flagship stores
In other news: http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/nokia_shutters_us_flagship_stores_as_floundering_cellphone_maker_fails/
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Can Nokia take on Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry?
With a headline like that I can reduce this article to a single word: No. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/can-nokia-take-on-apple-iphone-and-rim-blackberry/article1392583/
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Game Platforms vs. iPhone
The number of games per platform. All approximate. If IDC prediction of 300,000 iPhone Apps by end of next year holds and if the ratio is preserved at about 20% games, then there could be 60,000 games on the Apple…
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Version Arithmetic
Remember when I laid out the timeline for Nokia’s response to the iPhone? Still checking off the milestones:…
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The Pocket PC Paradox
Recent data from admob shows that Android OS share is highly dependent on a single vendor (HTC). (http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Oct-09.pdf page 7) There is an implied message in…
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Stack ‘em high!
In comparing two platforms like iPhone and Android, the question of addressable market for developers must come first. Apple has the advantage of an early lead plus its iPod touch devices which add another 40% to…