A couple of bits of research around today about the iPad with one saying that most UK consumers wouldn’t pay £400 for a basic Apple iPad.
A second piece says that magazine apps aren’t big among consumers’ interests when it comes to the iPad and rank much lower than video or reading books. Read More
This is spot on. Scarily so. As a dedicated iPhone user, of course, I see myself as slightly cooler and more hip that those struggling with their Blackberrys. I’m sorry, but no amount of cool looking ads with dance music will make Blackberry’s cool.
Sorry it just won’t happen. I have to say that I have a cape in my closet so really I don’t mind if others see me like like that and besides it is OKAY to worship Steve Jobs. Besides false idolatry is so several centuries ago. Read More
So it wasn’t the Facebook Phone as some had speculated instead Facebook unveiled a number of updates for mobile and for its location service Facebook Places.
It also revealed that Facebook has reached a major milestone with 200 million people around the world now actively using Facebook via mobile, which is more than triple the number just one year ago – and that’s more using Facebook via mobile than Twitter combined. Read More
Do Androids dream of really cool handsets? I’m only asking as the world is going all Philip K Dick on us. The Androids are coming. I’d been wondering what I would get next, disappointed with Blackberry, and not wanting to be yet another Nathan Barley type wittering on about their Apple iPhone.
It looks like the answer will bean an Android phone. Android are tearing up the market outpacing the overhyped and all over the media Apple by a ratio of 4:1. Check it out. Read More
How big is Apple’s iPhone US and world mobile market? The answer might surpirse you. I could be wrong, but it is not as big as you might think.
While it has a very healthy 28% share of the US smartphone market and growing (up 7%) it is Android that has the real wheels in this market. And overall? Apple has only a 2% world share. Sometimes with the mass of Apple headlines people forget that. Read More
Twitter has released figures saying that mobile use has leapt 62% since mid-April as a range of new official apps for the iPhone, Blackberry and Android come online. Read More
SEO firm TweetUp has bought pre-eminent Twitter android app Twidroid, which is to be pre-loaded on “millions” of new Android phones giving it a massive leg-up. Read More
This will excite a lot of people who not only like to tell their Twitter followers what they’re doing, but where they’re doing it – the social networking site has launched a one-click-and-here-I-am function called Twitter Places, which comes with Foursquare and Gowalla integration. Read More
The buzz surrounding Foursquare at the moment may be muted once the big boys step into ring, as Facebook prepares to roll-out its own location-based social networking tools and Google’s Latitude continues to grow.
Facebook’s ‘Check-In’ app may arrive as early as this month with its launch partner McDonald’s.
McDonald’s has built an app that allows Facebook users to “Check-In” at one of its restaurants, posting their location within a potentially branded status update. With the McDonald’s app, users can also have a featured product appear in the post, such as an Angus Quarter Pounder.
Third party developers got a chance fire questions at Twitter brass yesterday during the @Chirp conference, a week after the website ruffled some feathers when it announced it would be side-stepping many independent developers to launch some of its own apps.
Twitter has long thrived on third party developers, who created immensely popular desktop and mobile clients like TweetDeck and UberTwitter, among others.
Developers were confused over Twitter’s announcement last week Read More
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