On Tuesday I wrote about how Android is continuing to gain momentum, but that it still lags Apple in terms of the health of its ecosystem. Also on Tuesday Apple announced a tightening of the rules around purchases via the apps that run on their platform which are designed to increase Apple’s share of [...]
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Regular readers will know that I like open systems and am keen to see Android emerge as serious competition to Apple’s iOS. In the middle of last year Android started passing iOS in terms of new connections per month and according to the Millenial Media report for January 2011 Android has now beaten iOS [...] Last week we had the news that Apple blocked Sony’s book application from the App Store and now today the BBC is running a story describing how newspaper publishers are complaining about Apple interfering with their business models. They want to be able to offer free electronic versions of their papers to print subscribers [...] The problem with closed systems like Apple’s where a single vendor looks to sell product at multiple different levels in the value chain is that pretty soon they end up with conflicts between the different levels and the product suffers as a result. It looks like this is playing out at Apple now [...] More competition for the major web platforms would be a significant boon for startups. Google’s huge margins make it more expensive and hence difficult for startups to acquire customers and grow and Apple’s restrictive policies for iPhone apps have a similar effect on companies in the mobile arena. For this reason I’m a keen [...] Fred Wilson has a great post up today arguing that the mobile web is really just like the wired web and that the economics of both are rapidly converging. I particularly liked this passage where he talks about the inevitable failure of iPad magazine sales: There is some discussion in the tech blogs today [...] You may well have seen that yesterday Google announced the latest version of the Android platform (rev 2.3) which is called Gingerbread, and they also announced the release of the Nexus S – the follow up to the Google phone Nexus One. It seems to me that Google are executing brilliantly on [...] On Monday there was an article on Techcrunch about a startup called Inkling that has developed an innovative digital textbook platform for the iPad (picture above). Their technology adds collaboration, multimedia, 3D, quizzes and social interaction to the basic reading experience and they have just released their first book/app – an iPad [...] Regular readers will know that in the past I’ve been critical of Apple’s attitude towards its partners in the mobile ecosystem. I have argued that their insistence on controlling and approving everything and on adherence to the Apple way of doing things makes life harder for startups and stifles innovation. Jobs’ Thoughts on [...]
Last week I wrote about the beauty of the touchscreen interfaces on some native iPad apps and then in a post about HTML5 briefly explored the notion that web standards will need to evolve if web apps are going to keep pace with the user experience available in native apps on [...] |
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