Tag Archive: Android
Google is right: The smartphone “patent bubble” is lame
Aug. 3, ‘11: Patents are becoming a pain in the butt for Google. So it seemed like only a matter of time before the company started a campaign for patent reform. It just did, with a blog post by chief legal officer David … Continue reading →
4 lessons from Amazon’s Android Appstore
Aug. 2, ‘11: Developer Shifty Jelly offers a frustrated but interesting take on Amazon’s Android Appstore (via Techmeme). Here’s what I took away: Amazon’s Appstore can be tiny. Shifty Jelly only sold four copies of its app over a three-day span in June. That’s not … Continue reading →
Survey says: 94% of iPhone owners want another iPhone, 47% of Android owners want another Android
Aug. 1, ‘11: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster surveyed 216 mobile phone subscribers: Among existing iPhone users 94% expect to buy another iPhone (6% expect to switch to Android); among existing Android users 47% expect to buy another Android smartphone (42% expect to … Continue reading →
Apple lawsuit forces Amazon to stop accepting new “Appstore” apps in Germany
Jul. 30, ‘11: Apple’s efforts to get Amazon to stop using the word “Appstore” to describe its app store have not been successful yet. But Apple has caused Amazon some trouble in Germany: Amazon has recently stopped accepting new apps from developers there because … Continue reading →
Apple sells more tablets in 2 weeks than Motorola plans to ship all year
Jul. 28, ‘11: Motorola confirmed today that its Xoom tablet, running on Google’s Android platform, is a flop. Here’s Ina Fried, reporting for All Things D: Motorola said on Thursday that it expects to sell 1.3 million to 1.5 tablets for the full year, … Continue reading →
Logitech: More Google TV box returns than sales*
Jul. 28, ‘11: No surprise, but it sounds like Google’s entry into the TV software market isn’t going very well. From Logitech’s fiscal Q1/calendar Q2 remarks to shareholders: (PDF via GigaOM) Q1 was a very weak quarter for sales of Logitech Revue. While … Continue reading →
How the social games business on mobile is different than on Facebook
Jul. 27, ‘11: Facebook’s web platform has helped social gaming companies like Zynga attract tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. But replicating that success on mobile is a much different challenge: App development, marketing, discovery, and … Continue reading →
Facebook for iPhone now has 85 million active users, up 50% in 7 months
Jul. 25, ‘11: Facebook’s iPhone app just passed 85 million monthly active users, according to the Facebook for iPhone page. That’s up 50% from 7 months ago, around Christmas, when it had 57 million active users. How about Facebook’s penetration among iOS devices? … Continue reading →
More Windows Phone 7 customers are “Very Satisfied” than Android customers
Jul. 18, ‘11: More Apple iPhone customers are “Very Satisfied” with their phones than any other platform, new survey results from ChangeWave Research suggest. (This is typical.) But more Microsoft Windows Phone 7 customers appear to be “Very Satisfied” than Google Android customers, … Continue reading →
Woot sold 2,288 Motorola Xooms yesterday
Jul. 14, ‘11: Not bad. That’s 10 Xooms for every Android tablet app on the market.
