…and how web innovation will challenge Apples control Everyone in mobile knows that to sell something on the iOS platform you must pay your 30% tax to Apple, and that Apple has final say over whether your app will be published to iPhone users – they have control over the developer’s destiny. But just how [...]
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With Gartner forecasting that the tablet market is set to grow from 63.6 million sales in 2011 to 326.3 million by the end of 2015, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Asustek, Acer and Dell all announce they are out of the Android tablet market. One has to wonder whether their decision [...]
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Following on from my post “Apple iTunes – the only place to shop… literally?”, it would appear that my predictions about large brands rushing to release HTML5 versions of their stores is starting to happen, only much quicker than I expected. Both Amazon and Wal-Mart recently launched excellent new HTML5 stores that reach iPad and [...]
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When Apple launched iTunes on April 28th 2003, who would have predicted that it would become the only place to shop online… Literally… Well, in Apple’s mind and plans at least. Last year we saw Apple enforce iTunes for the delivery and payment of apps – some people complained but everyone fell in line and [...]
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…..this question has been at the top of my mind this week, prompted by several parallel events. Google announced its cloud music “locker” service ‘Music Beta’, just a few weeks after Amazon made its service available. Both are intended to allow music fans to upload their digital music collections to an on-line storage facility (the [...]
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Few holidays in the western world are celebrated without the accompanying assault from the retail sector going into overdrive. In the United States, the Friday after Thanksgiving earned the label “Black Friday” years back, when it traditionally (ostensibly?) became the day upon which hard-pressed retailers would finally get back into the black with record sales. [...]
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During a recent panel session I took part in, at a mobile conference in New York, the topic of micro-transactions came up. There is no arguing that mobile subscribers with internet access are growing. Operators and manufactures have done a great job in creating an environment that makes it seamless for end users to access [...]
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Why are they relaxing their policies? It has long been the understanding that Apple wants every single slice of the pie. Their devices are so closed that the only way to get anything is via their all conquering app store. Everything from music, movies and the latest TV shows to humble ring tones need to [...]
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We welcome the news this week that Apple has agreed to start selling digital songs from its iTunes store without copy protection software. At present, most music downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store can only be played through an iTunes interface or iPod. In our predictions for 2009, we said that “Online music retailers will follow [...]
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Just how different is the mobile web from the regular PC web? As far as consumers are concerned, the mobile web is the PC web – just smaller. When people are looking for services and content that match the immediacy and personal nature of mobile – up-to-date sports news, movie listings, dating sites to name [...]
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