CNET: Apple by the numbers: 84M iPads, 400M iOS devices, 350M iPods sold The Verge: Apple by the numbers: 7M copies of Mountain Lion sold, 27 percent US laptop marketshare, 700K iOS apps Impressive. … [Continue reading]
Both Lifehacker and Venturebeat outpaced TechCrunch in referrals retickr: A Year In The App Store | retickr How about that. … [Continue reading]
It’s a textbook Tim Cook supply-chain move: selling the last generation’s hardware at a lower price point to expand marketshare. Predicting the “iPad Mini” internals – Marco.org … [Continue reading]
Flipboard hits 20M users, with one new signup per minute | VentureBeat
Flipboard hits 20M users, with one new signup per minute | VentureBeat20 million users who will not be happy when (not if) the Twitter section on Flipboard disappears. … [Continue reading]
According to founder Mike McCauley, Amazon’s Locker program poses the greatest threat competitively, but he actually sees it as an advantage. “They opened up a whole new market for us because they have 30 percent of the commerce volume,” McCauley … [Continue reading]
Post a photo of a Shake Shack burger to Instagram, Path, Google , Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foodspotting and now Medium, plus perhaps I still use Flickr or a service like Picturelife. The restaurant might collect those photos via Chute or Olapic. I … [Continue reading]
We’ve only said this 9,000 times, but market share numbers do not mean that Android users are buying apps. Until Android users buy more apps (and Android isn’t a cesspool of malware and piracy and fragmentation), developers will continue to ship for … [Continue reading]
Login without password
Ben Brown: I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user needs to login, they enter their email address and receive a login link via email. Clever … [Continue reading]
Twitter-CEO: We want to move away from companies that “build off of Twitter, to a world where people build into Twitter.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in an interview on WSJ.com: In its events push, Mr. Costolo said Twitter is vying to “more closely tie the shared experience on Twitter to the actual event that is happening.” As Twitter burnishes its platform, … [Continue reading]
Iceland could become the center of data centers for the west
Iceland could at least for the west become the main place for data centers. Dan Frommer for ReadWriteWeb: The biggest costs of running data centers are electricity and electricity. Running the servers and keeping them from overheating consumes a lot … [Continue reading]
