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Ten years later, Windows XP still dominates the Web
And in the Apple market, Lion is still trailing two-year-old Snow Leopard Data: NetApplications. Graph: PED In its final monthly report for 2011, NetApplications offers a window on the shifting fates of the various flavors of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows and … Continue reading
If Android is so hot, why has Java ME overtaken it?
Ranked by Internet market share — rather than unit sales — Google is now No. 3 Data: NetApplications. Chart: PED From the perspective of NetApplications, which has been measuring browser usage data since 2004 (currently monitoring the activity of 160 … Continue reading
Apple’s Terrific And Tumultuous 2011
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Those words seem to encapsulate Apple’s 2011 perfectly. The year saw the company both became the most valuable company in the world and lose its founder, savior, visionary, … Continue reading
Apple 2.0′s ten most-read stories of 2011
A stock-market anomaly, a new iPhone, a second iPad, two new wireless carriers, a swarm of lawsuits and a malware false alarm What the hell happened to AAPL on Feb. 10? Image: Andy Zaky Out of the 793 items about … Continue reading
GarageBand: Tip – Exporting Songs to iTunes
Make sure any dialogs in iTunes are closed if it won’t import a song you made in GarageBand.
Freight Train Kept A-Rollin’
2011 was the year of Android. A little over a year ago Andy Rubin tweeted that 300,000 Android devices were being activated each day. In January we reported that Android had surpassed iOS in terms of US smartphone market share. … Continue reading
Why Sir Jony but not Sir Steve
Two reasons: Jobs’ birthplace and, reportedly, a speaking invitation he blew off in 2009 Ive and Jobs in 2002 The news that Jonathan Ive, Apple’s (AAPL) chief wizard of industrial design, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire … Continue reading
Android vs. iPhone: Hare and tortoise?
Google’s U.S. market share continues to grow against Apple, but at a much slower pace Data: ComScore. Charts: PED “In case you needed more proof that Android is walloping iOS,” writes Steve Kovach in Thursday’s Business Insider, ”ComScore’s three-month report on mobile … Continue reading
WSJ: 8 of 10 of 2011′s most-read stories were about Apple
Only the Paul Allen-Bill Gates feud and Borders’ liquidation prevented a clean sweep Source: WSJ.com If you ever wondered why there are so many reporters — like this one — covering Apple (AAPL), here’s a clue: According to Thursday’s Wall … Continue reading
comScore: Apple Grows Mobile Marketshare From 9.8% To 11.2%, But Samsung’s Still Top OEM
comScore has just released its latest numbers regarding the mobile landscape here in the U.S., finding that Samsung is still the top OEM with a 25.6 percent marketshare, up just .3 percentage points from the three month period ending in … Continue reading