Meanwhile, Apple’s market share in the portable media player (PMP) category was 92%, up from 87% in the study six months ago
via AppleInsider | Number of high school students planning to buy an iPhone doubles.
Does anybody remember iPod killers?
How about the iPhone killers?
No matter, it’s now time for the iPad killers.
The iPhone represents nearly 90% of all non-laptop connections in Boingo’s airports. The iPad registered 5.4% of all device connections, while Android tallied 2.5%. Blackberry phones and iPod Touch MP3 players accounted for less than 2% each of total visits. Windows Mobile was less than 1%.
Remarkable statistics, through a narrow sampling. The above data represents all Wi-Fi enabled non-laptop devices in Boingo’s managed network, which includes 58 airports, the Washington State Ferries, and several sporting arenas and convention centers.
if you’re surprised that Apple accepted Opera Mini, you don’t understand what Apple is doing with the App Store.
via Daring Fireball Linked List: Opera Mini Approved for App Store.
“Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Device Data may not be provided or disclosed to a third party without Apple’s prior written consent. Accordingly, the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited.”
via Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.
Not to worry, Eric. Android revenues will make up for AdMob’s price tag.
The App download rate increased to a record 10,753,000 per day during the last 90 days. This remains below the peak reported iTunes music rate of 12 million per day in the fall of 2009, but above the more recent rate of 8.5 million per day reported in March.
The download rates for iTunes are reported to have fallen as tiered pricing has been introduced while App download rates continue to increase.
Last week’s announcement of “well over” 4 billion apps downloaded came 21 months after the App Store opened on iTunes. To give a perspective on how fast that is, 4 billion songs took 41 months to sell on the iTunes Music Store.
The graph below shows the last actual data provided on both the App Store and the Music store downloads (circled) plotted from time of launch.
It also shows a curve-fit forecast of each store’s downloads. If the growth persists, 10 billion apps could be shifted in 28 months post launch, which is around November of this year.
“Google” has been replaced next to the keyboard’s space bar with the word “Search.” Ouch.
via New in iPhone OS 4: The Full App-by-App Breakdown | iLounge Article.
RIM Buys QNX to Tie Phones to Cars | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Seriously, a real operating system. This is their first.
As a (Unix-like real-time) microkernel-based OS, QNX is based on the idea of running most of the OS in the form of a number of small tasks, known as servers. This differs from the more traditional monolithic kernel, in which the operating system is a single very large program composed of a huge number of “parts” with special abilities. In the case of QNX, the use of a microkernel allows users (developers) to turn off any functionality they do not require without having to change the OS itself; instead, those servers are simply not run.
…which is more than can be said for the BlackBerry “OS”.
Source: Wikipedia
My reading of this new language is that cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited. This also bans apps compiled using MonoTouch — a tool that compiles C# and .NET apps to the iPhone. It’s unclear what this means for tools like Titanium and PhoneGap, which let developers write JavaScript code that runs in WebKit inside a native iPhone app wrapper. They might be OK. The folks at Appcelerator realize, though, that they might be out of bounds with Titanium. Ansca’s Corona SDK, which lets you write iPhone apps using Lua, strikes me as out of bounds.
via Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler.
Nota bene: Apple will release its own app front end that allows a simpler development environment (than XCode).
