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• Category: News
• Updated: Nov 01, 2011
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• Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
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• Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

This is a seriously strong news app. I'm thinking it's going to be my main news app. We'll see. Right now it's Google News.

This is stunning stuff coming off of a mobile device.

This "feels" accurate (not worth much), and the dataset is not insignificant. Interesting if nothing else.

The Loop is reporting on a study released Wednesday by the Yankee Group that indicates that 40% of potential smartphone buyers in Europe said that they would go for an iPhone.

The study was a poll of 5,000 consumers and 2,250 IT decision-makers working at companies across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.

The study indicated that Android devices came in a distant second at 19% and BlackBerry and Nokia followed at 17% and 15% respectively.

I've seen articles stating there's similar domination of Android in South Korea. So what can we draw from that? Marketing? Cultural values?

And will the Windows phone gather velocity in South Korea since that country is so Windows-centric?

If ever there were an idea for an application that affects the world positively, this is it. I can think of few things more positive than encouraging and enabling people to become more 'citizen'-like.

Over the last 3 months (December 26th, 2010 – March 26th, 2011), Apple pulled in a grand total of 24.6 billion dollars. Now, what percentage of that do you think is from the iPhone? 10%? 25%?

Get this: 50%. Yep. According to Apple’s latest earning report, an entire half of Apple’s quarterly revenue is coming in from the iPhone and iPhone-related products.

Unbelievable. Both the total and the percentage from iPhone.

What’s the most popular camera used in terms of pictures taken that are uploaded to Flickr? Right now, it’s the Nikon D90. But in about a month or so, it will be Apple’s iPhone 4. What’s amazing is that D90 is nearly three years old. The iPhone 4 is not even a year old. Just look at a the chart above. The rise has been spectacular.

It's these types of metrics that I'm most interested in when discussing the popularity and marketshare of iPhone vs. Android.

I want to see web stats by browser for major websites, how many Twitter users are hitting from iPhone vs. Android apps, which device is being used to hit the NYT, the Economist, NPR, CNN, etc.

These are the stats I am interested in. They're the stats that tell me who's really using what. "Marketshare" stats are lame. Number of phones sold is lame.

Show me resale numbers for the phones. Who's uploading the most video. The most images. Using the web the most. Hitting Twitter the most. Etc. Those are real to me.

It's a question of who's using their devices more to do real things. That's always been my argument. Features sell people who like features, but they don't get reflected in use or in resale value.

Design and interface get people to *use* their phones.

So I just spent some time on Android (about two weeks), and this is was one of the reasons I went back. Ultimately, it just wasn't as enjoyable to use my device--for a number of reasons. Hardware feel, stress about battery drain, and definitely the look and feel of the applications that I enjoy.

This post pretty much captures the app look/feel element.

One word: Terrorist.