Google has done this move to protect itself from fragmentation, says Bloomberg / Google. Well, that’s a bit exaggerated: 1. Fragmentation means letting everybody hack and mod the Android OS until it looks and behaves cool enough to be sold (read “until it resambles iOS”). 2. Being able to hack
30%. Compared to Apple’s outrageous 30% from the same service, Google approaches the issue in a much more humane and thoughtful way. You should also remember it’s only around 50k of the total apps in Market that are paid apps (compared to AppStore’s 200k!), therefore Google puts
Coyote Tracks: Google Open chipotle: I’m increasingly irritated by the way Google uses the word open. When I think of open I think of Linux and FreeBSD, but that’s just one sense of open—the open source, or if you prefer, “free software” sense. There are also open
I may not be the only one to notice it; Scott Cleland says it from a different perspective: “Let me be clear, as I have long said, my problem with Google is not that it discriminates against content in its ranking process, my problem is that it has consistently and
J-P Teti: The iPad is 99% more open than any other computer roboteti: As you may or may not know, this is my 8th grade year. My school goes to 8th grade, so this is my gaduation year. It would be worth mentioning that I don’t have any nerdy
90WPM: Garage Band 90wpm: I’m an iPhone junkie. And, until recently, I had little to no use for the iPad. Thankfully, I’m not required to check mail on my mobile devices. I’m at my laptop for most of the day, and on the subway I usually stick
They suck mainly because of the following dialog: Competitor company CEO: “How come Apple makes so much money?” Competitor company Marketing Director: “They’re building innovative products and these products are very well marketed” CEO: “What’s the most innovative device they’ve built?” MD: “iPad” CEO: “Let’s make
Christian Zibreg, 9to5 Mac It goes without saying that for many of the iPad-toting toddlers Apple’s iOS devices and Macs will be a natural fit as they enter childhood and teen years. It’s the Apple brainwash and it works like a charm. Apple gets them while they’re
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Because he realized one of the pictures would cost him something money can’t buy: customer satisfaction.
John Gruber: I just don’t get the pricing, and I find it hard to believe there are many people willing to pay $455/year for digital access to a newspaper, no matter how good the newspaper is. NYT’s big secret is that such a pricing structure usually is
The wrong kind of “magic” Virginia Postrel at WSJ published an article on what’s making the iPad magical. Something bothered me at the end of the reading, but I couldn’t say what. She goes like this: Apple has long had an aura of trend-setting cool, but magic is
Do you remember the Yahoo hoaxes “officially announcing” they’ll delete your account at a specific date unless you send “this” message to your entire address book or roster? Well, I never thought somebody would take it serious, until now: Google will actually delete your “Google Profile” if, at 31st