iPhone “miles ahead” of competing app stores | Report
By SRASC at 2 March, 2009, 11:07 am
A report on mobile applications sales ranked Apple’s iPhone App Store “miles ahead of the competition” as the leading software marketplace, based on timeliness to market, the ability to attract developers, and the “number, variety and appeal of applications available.”
Store wars
Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA) ranked Apple’s software sales through iTunes in comparison with Google’s existing [...]
RBC Compares iPhone’s Competitors
By SRASC at 22 February, 2009, 7:54 pm
With Apple’s influence hanging over the Mobile World Congress event this week, the Royal Bank of Canada has released a comprehensive comparison chart of eight contenders that threaten to steal some of the iPhone’s customers.
Though the firm still sees the iPhone as solidly superior to its competition, analyst Mike Abramsky told clients he’s still concerned [...]
iPhone dominates Mobile World Congress 2009 without Apple
By SRASC at 18 February, 2009, 11:40 am
While reports have suggested that Apple may attend next year’s CES to “sit amongst its competition” in consumer electronics, the company has elected not to attend the GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona this week. That hasn’t stopped the iPhone from dominating talk at the mobile conference.
Journalists seem to find it hard to [...]
Enable iPod Controls from any iPhone App
By SRASC at 18 February, 2009, 11:37 am
iPodPop is a Mobile Substrate extension, which enables the iPod popup feature from any iPhone application.
iPodPop is a Mobile Substrate extension, which enables the iPod popup feature, to use with double-tap, at all times, even when the iPod is not playing! Want to start your music but don’t want to leave your current application? Enable [...]
Microsoft Unveils Mobile Marketplace and My Phone
By SRASC at 16 February, 2009, 9:05 pm
Today at Mobile World Congress 2009, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Windows phones will feature two new services: My Phone, to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web; and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, a new marketplace that will provide direct-to-phone mobile applications and can be accessed from both the [...]
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