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I’m calling BS on “Android Dominance” meme
We have been reading for quite a while now how Android has surpassed iPhone and taken the number one spot in terms of smartphone shipments. I don’t dispute that number. What I do dispute is whether it...
View ArticleForbes: Android is shipping more phones but Apple is still the logical choice...
The title to this May 9 story, suggests another Apple bashing: “Is Apple’s dominance of Mobile Development on the Wane?” It appears to be an old editorial trick, the classic alarmist headline, because...
View Article“It works on iPad” Choose wisely when considering alternative platforms
For many years, I did my best to avoid the mainstream platform of the day, Windows and Internet Explorer. I used Solaris, Linux, Firefox, and many other alternative platforms as my primary choice...
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No, Apple should not chase the Android release cycle train wreck
Is this really what you want? Shorter release cycles lead to fragmentation. Dan Rowinski at ReadWriteWeb, said yesterday that Apple has a problem, citing IDC research that claims Android accounted for...
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It’s BI. And it’s Henry Blodget. But I tend to agree: Where Are The Android...
Henry Blodget has a post up over at BusinessInsider that considers a question I’ve also asked before, and which I have been following for some time now. In a nutshell, with device sales reportedly so...
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Here we go again, Google is nice, Apple is mean
In a piece titled “How Apple Gets All the Good Apps,” Walt Mossberg points out that Apple’s direct competitors — Google, Microsoft and Amazon — all have official versions of their apps for Apple...
View ArticleAndroid vs. iPhone development experience
There are a steady stream of posts about which platform makes more sense to develop for, in terms of market size, chances for success etc. This post isn’t about that. This post is about the development...
View ArticleThis one article accidentally explains the biggest practical difference...
For all the improvements to the Android end-user experience, and there have been big strides, there’s still a lot of practical differences in usability between the two platforms for everyday...
View ArticleNow it’s time for an iPhone rant
In the spirit of contrasting views, the following is a guest post by a former colleague. The iPhone sucks For starters, the out-of-the box email client sucks horribly compared to blackberry (I used bb...
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