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Verizon announced their last quarters numbers:
The company activated 9.8 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, including 6.2 million iPhones, with most of the rest being Android devices. Tablet sales doubled as compared to the prior quarter, Shammo said.
Over 63% of Verizon’s sales this last quarter where from 3 models. That is a whole lot of not failing going on.
Thanks to: AllThingsD
Most of the time during those rehearsals, Ken and I had nothing to do except sit in the then empty audience and watch The Master Presenter at work — crafting his keynote. What a privilege to be a spectator during that process. At Apple, we were actually all students, not just spectators. When I see other companies clumsily announce products these days, I realize again how much the rest of the world lost now that Steve is gone.
This is a great read on the unveiling of Safari. I do totally agree that he was a master presenter of the likes that we don’t see in tech companies today.
Google announced today via their Gmail Blog:
Starting today, we’re adding CardDAV – an open protocol for contacts – to that list. CardDAV enables 3rd party clients, like the iOS contacts app, to sync your Google contacts. By supporting IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV together, we’re making it possible for 3rd parties to build a seamless Google Account sync applications.
This is fantastic news for us iOS and Mac OS X users as it will make managing our contacts even easier.
One of my main frustrations in not using a full blown Exchange mail solution was not being able to manage my contacts with my Google Apps for my domain account, but now I can.
Yesterday Google I was questing your motives and today I am praising them. Welcome to technology today.
According to Google’s Eric Schmidt via Korea Times
Literally patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation and I think that is very bad. We are obviously working through that and trying to make sure we stay on the right side of these issues. So ultimately Google stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars.
Unless it is Motorola, Googles own company.
I don’t think patent law is correct today in this country and deserves to be restructured, but don’t say one thing and do another.
Large version can be downloaded here.
I just got this offer in my email. AT&T is clearly pointing out that you can talk and surf at the same time which you can’t do on the Verizon CDMA network. I am so glad that AT&T now has competition for the iPhone as well as allowing multiple carriers to help battle Android market share.
From a very interesting interview here from Peter Vesterbacka, Maker of Angry Birds:
“Apple will be the number one platform for a long time from a developer perspective, they have gotten so many things right. And they know what they are doing and they call the shots. Android is growing, but it’s also growing complexity at the same time. Device fragmentation not the issue, but rather the fragmentation of the ecosystem. So many different shops, so many different models. The carriers messing with the experience again. Open but not really open, a very Google centric ecosystem. And paid content just doesn’t work on Android.
Instead of taking a big hit, Roku sales actually doubled when the new Apple TV came out, Roku CEO Anthony Wood tells us, because Apple helped bring a lot of new attention and awareness to the category. And Google TV is not proving itself to be a worthy competitor yet.