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If you went to school with the people on Twitter, they’d be the ones in your Facebook and you’d wish you’d gone to school with other people.
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No iPod touch on homescreen.me
I just realized @homescreen doesn’t have an iPod touch section. Sure you can lump it with the iPhone but what a way to alienate half of iOS device owners. I should’ve noticed it on day one. Funny how I thought splitting up iPhone and iPhone 4 was odd but totally missed out on the iPod touch omission.
Apple takes 48% of smartphone industry profits
Apple may be shipping less than 5 percent of the world’s mobile phones and “only” 14 percent of worldwide smartphones but according to a research by Asymco, it managed to grab almost half of the entire industry’s profit share.
While Android fans are cheering the massive rise of their platform through multiple vendors and models, Apple quietly moves towards enlarging its bank account with what is essentially one phone.
HTC isn’t included since their numbers aren’t as comprehensively available as the other manufacturers’.
Market share vs profit. Pick one.
Facebook. In Augmented Reality
About the lack of paid apps in the Android Market
You can buy Android apps from the Android Market in only 13 out of 46 countries and you can only develop paid apps in 9 countries.
Of course there are third party Android app stores but who knows about them? Do they advertise? Are they being promoted to potential Android buyers? How do operators fit in to this equation?
Google is an advertising company. Android’s existence is a vehicle to deliver ads in the mobile space. Having
a large library of universally accessible paid apps is counter to Google’s reason to have Android.
It’s time for the baked-in Android UI to die
This is why I’m not too fond of customized Android interface. Many phone manufacturers insist on having their own “optimized” interfaces according to their perceived need of their intended customers. This whole forcing people to use their custom interface meme flies in the face of the whole idea of openness that Google claims to champion. Or perhaps it’s open but from the vendor’s perspective, not the user’s.
Loic Le Meur: How much can you really make developing mobile apps?
“$2,500 average per paid app isn’t enough to cover the costs of an app, especially those that require constant updates to stay ahead of the competition. Remove the Angry Birds best revenue apps from that average and I am sure the average revenue of the average paid apps will be around $500 or so.”
Loic Le Meur: How much can you really make developing mobile apps?
Eye of the Tiger. On iPads. (via JordanHollender)
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’
The guy must have been so moved and so driven by Ayn Rand that he’s willing to go this far to show his dedication to spreading her works across the continent.
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