Time’s Managing Editor: iPad Content Awaits ‘Its Orson Welles’ – Digits – WSJ
He compared it to the era after sound first came into motion pictures. For a while many movies were more like filmed plays, until directors really learned to take advantage of the opportunities of the medium. For the iPad, too, “the medium is waiting for its Orson Welles,” Stengel said.
Never mind the gossip and tales of intrigue. Ignore the stories of betrayal and affairs. Forget the animosity and ego tripping.
No, the real reason you should be nervous if you are betting on Google long term is that Schmidt gave his first iPhone away.
By August of 2007 it’s reported that “Schmidt had long ago given up on the Apple handset because he couldn’t stand the on-screen keyboard. His wife had tested a prototype, but didn’t care to keep it. Schmidt, we’re told, ended up giving his iPhone to [his mistress] as a gift”
Here is a guy who has in his hands one of the first iPhones and he treats it with contempt.
He did not get it.
Nor, it seems, does he get the iPad.
Google does not understand where computing is going.
I don’t mean this in a small way. I mean this in a big way.
Smartphone impressions triple in a year « Asymco
Following up on the previous Admob numbers, it seems that Symbian impressions grew by 22% vs. overall growth of 43%.
In absolute terms, total impressions a year ago for Symbian reached about 1 billion vs. 1.22b in February.
Symbian’s share of requests therefore fell from 43% in February 2009 to 18% in February 2010.
link: Smartphone traffic is up 193% in a year – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech
What is important to observe is not the share numbers in the link above but the absolute growth and trend.
Doing a bit of algebra from the data Admob provided we can calculate that:
Although it’s dangerous to equate “usage” to these impression numbers, the overall trend is that most of the growth is happening on smartphones. Of those, the iPhone OS and Android are taking 75% share of eyeballs, at least on Admob’s network.
The iPhone platform generated as many impressions in February as all feature phones generated a year ago. It does not seem a stretch to predict that iPhone will overtake all feature phones in overall impressions in the near future.
There were an estimated 228 million U.S. Web users in 2009, so if Apple was able to sell iPads to only one-third of those it would mean domestic sales of 76 million units.
Link: San Jose Business Journal
More interesting stats from Business Pulse survey by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal that was conducted between March 16 and March 23:
Additional survey data from comScore:
Another from Sybase and conducted by Zogby International surveyed 2,443 adults with a mobile phone, 770 of which own smartphones. Among the smartphone-owning respondents, more than half — 52.3 percent — said they are most likely to use a tablet device like the iPad to do work
AppleInsider | No. 1 planned use for Apple iPad: working on the go.
Total Active Apps: 172,886
Total Inactive Apps: 27,468
Total Apps Seen: 200,354
Unique App Publishers: 34,468
via 148Apps.biz | iPhone development news and information for the community, by the community.
There are now well over 200,354 apps in the app store
Total Apps Total Apps Approved: 200638 Total Available Apps: 173175
link: iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, Deals and Discovery at App Shopper
Apple’s App Store has grabbed 5 percent of the roughly $10 billion a year U.S. gaming industry, with revenue for games increasing from $115 million in 2008 to $500 million from 2008 and 2009, according to a new report from Flurry Analytics, which helps mobile application developers make money.
link: IPhone games hit $500M, taking share – San Francisco Business Times:
Apple leads the App Store race with 170,000 apps
Palm announced 2k apps on their store and Google recently crossed over 30k. Blackberry has 5k. Ovi maintains about 7k apps.
According to Appshopper there are 199,885 apps approved and 172,662 available on the App Store. (200k will certainly be crossed today March 21st). Due to churn and policy enforcement Apple has removed 27,223 apps from its store over the years.
In the case of Android, policing may not amount to much catalog erosion so the 30k figure is more comparable to the “approved” Apple figure.
With 27th the deadline for inclusion by the April 3rd launch date, the rush to submit new apps for the iPad is on. No doubt, there will be a significant surge in new apps in March. This might lead to a new record of over 25k apps added in one month.
My initial estimate in February for the 200k milestone was by May 1st. I was clearly off by nearly 40 days. If the add rate is maintained at 20k/mo 300k will come around in August although I’m not as confident in this forecast. The rate of app addition seems to be accelerating.
