After weeks and months of good news for Android, ComScore's U.S. subscriber market share report released today says Apple is growing overall iPhone sales and iOS platform penetration, while Google's Android is dropping.
"It's not terrible to be number two," Passikof said. "But in both cases I think consumers are looking for higher degrees of innovation. It was only after Samsung and other companies came out with smaller tablets that Apple brought out the iPad mini. It was only in reaction."
I have the much-discussed Apple-HTC cross-licensing contract in my greasy little digital fingers. It’s a powerful document that has kiboshed upwards of 40 lawsuits between the two companies.
If only I could read some of it.
Here’s what I know …
HTC and Apple definitely have a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Apple. But the numbers attached to that agreement are still a major mystery.
"Hi, I'm Ben, and today I'm showing people why Windows Phone is a better match for them than iPhone and Android."
Google's mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars, with over 75 percent market share, but Apple and Microsoft could be making more from Android than Google -- up to 600 percent more next year.
A few hundred million more or less from HTC is pocket change for the Cupertino giant that expects to earn $52 billion in the next quarter alone. Samsung, on the other hand, sold 57 million smartphones in the last quarter.
Lucky drop tests aside, Apple's iPhone may be the smartphone most prone to damage.
ComScore just released its June 2012 U.S. mobile report, and the results were mostly predictable.
The unholy trinity of Google, Samsung, and Apple captured 50 percent of the mobile phone market, and 84 percent of all smartphones run either Android …
It’s 1941.
Nazi Germany controls basically all of Europe, big chunks of Africa. Its soldiers and military machine are large and in charge and have not yet been seriously challenged. So what does genius Hitler do? He attacks Soviet Russia, …
HTC is having a tough year. Patent disputes have caused shipping delays, lawsuits have been filed by major competitors Nokia and Apple, sales targets for the current quarter were just slashed, and now former best-bud Microsoft is taking its ball …
Come April 19, 2012, Android-powered HTC smartphones may be a bit harder to find on store shelves in the U.S.
In its final determination, the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that HTC violated two claims of an Apple patent …
Phone manufacturers can’t just focus on cramming the most powerful chips in their devices nowadays — they have to have a certain glamour, too, according to a panel of top phone manufacturing executives.
Phone manufacturer HTC’s success has a lot …
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Adobe makes it to Apple devices via Greystripe — Adobe and Greystripe announced in tandem today that they will be working together to bring rich-media and interactive advertisements to the Android, iPhone and iPad platforms, according …
It appears that Google is currently releasing the public Android software development kit (SDK), which lets developers and manufactures build on its operating system for upcoming phones.
[Update: This is confirmed. The code has now been released.]
The …
If there’s a potential disaster awaiting Apple’s iPhone, it’s that the smart cellphone lacks a mechanical keyboard.
It forces users to use a touch-screen keyboard, something that may throw of millions of young people accustomed to texting quickly on basic …
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