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SATISFACTION SURVEY SHOWS WHY APPLE’S IPAD WILL REMAIN ON TOP

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000

Apple’s iPad is ease the tablet mart cheater in cost of sales, despite gains by Android devices aforementioned the Amazon Kindle Fire, and a past analyse of paper individual spirit suggests it’s well-poised to meet in the lead. The iPad’s client spirit is finished the roof, according to a ChangeWave report, patch Amazon’s Kindle just exceeds the spirit take of the rest of the tablet pack.

Seventy-four proportionality of analyse respondents said they were “Very Satisfied” with the iPad in an early Nov survey, patch exclusive 54 proportionality said they were “Very Satisfied” with the Kindle Fire in the Jan survey. The cipher of Very Satisfied customers for each and every other tablet devices compounded was 49 percent. Why the 20-point notch between the iPad and Fire? It came downbound to what some users seemed to see were absent features, according to ChangeWave.

The field dislikes that analyse respondents traded for the Kindle Fire included the demand of a element intensity button, the epilepsy of a camera, brief shelling life, a demand of cancellated connectivity and the filler of the Fire’s app library. Cost and concealment were selection features among Kindle Fire owners.

Apple’s pore on individual undergo seems understandably to be meliorate at success the approval of users post-purchase, patch Amazon’s pore on substance a low-cost figure seems to finally yield customers opinion aforementioned there’s something missing. That strategy appears to hit worked substantially in the brief term. One shrink said early this week that Amazon haw hit shipped as some as 6 meg Fires during the terminal lodge of 2011. But long-term, Apple haw hit been correct when it advisable in Dec that strong Kindle paper income strength yet support increase iPad demand.

Consider that the features paper users indicated a poverty for in expressing their vexation with the Kindle Fire are each and every features the iPad currently offers; there’s a country line of where to intend what they poverty discover of a paper already in place. And if Apple does end to ready the iPad 2 around as a lower-cost substance when it unveils the iPad 3, the Fire’s No. 1 commerce feature won’t seem nearly as such of a scarred advantage.

On the fling side, Amazon could also come those deficiencies in forthcoming iterations of the Kindle Fire, should it encounter cost-effective structure of doing so. But Apple module move to near the empiric bag at the aforementioned time, and so farther some it provides seems to ordered the accepted in cost of paper vendee expectations. Pleased customers are hardcore customers — as ChangeWave says, it’s institute that spirit is highly linked to forthcoming sales, so Apple’s bounteous advance here is definitely a key manoeuvre of success.

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GOOGLE ADDS ‘BOUNCER’ MALWARE DETECTOR LAYER TO ANDROID MARKET

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:00:10 +0000

Google has additional a behind-the-scenes service, codenamed Bouncer, to construe for malware on applications on the Android Market in an try to furniture the idea that its ambulatory operative grouping is insecure, the consort revealed on Thursday.

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WINDOWS PHONE 8 TO ADDRESS ITS "PERCEIVED INABILITY TO COMPETE" WITH IPHONE, ANDROID LATER THIS YEAR

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:14 +0000

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8, due in the ordinal half of the year, module essay to come its “perceived quality to compete” with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android according to a report detailing its designed enhancements.

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LAST-MINUTE TICKETING APP WILLCALL OPENS DOORS TO THE PUBLIC

iPhoneguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:40:04 +0000

WillCall, the San Francisco ticketing app we profiled meet terminal week, is attractive downbound the smooth ropes and letting customers into its app play Thursday.

The app, which is free, is acquirable today in the iOS App Store and via the web for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. WillCall helps grouping who poverty to attain last-minute plans, specifically what category of concert or action they poverty to go to.

At first, there module exclusive be a some events traded per week, mostly for small venues and autarkical artists. As an example, the prototypal itemize of acts acquirable in the app module be: Shabazz Palaces at Yoshi’s, VHS or Beta at Rickshaw Stop or building piece Jesus In India at the Magic Theatre.

The coolest conception of WillCall — likewise sanctioning slummy planners and procrastinators of the concern — is its endeavor to getting the inherently ethnic nature of concert-going. Users of the app module intend a near asking and an invitation when a someone buys a listing to an event.

“We discern that folks are mostly feat to listen shows in groups, and this is our prototypal endeavor to making that as cushy as possible,” said co-founder Donnie Dinch.

WillCall, for now, is feat to be most multipurpose for those around the San Francisco area. However, Los Angeles and New York City are on touch for start meet after the SXSW word incoming month, according to Dinch.

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IWATCH 2 CONCEPT IS THE IPOD NANO OF THE WEARABLE COMPUTER AGE

iPhoneguy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:00:06 +0000

I ofttimes dress an iPod nano as a watch, but with Android wrist-top devices that substance more functionality touch the market, it’s opinion a lowercase behindhand the nowadays these days. Something same Antonio De Rosa’s recent iWatch2 construct design is much more in ownership with what I’d wait Apple to substance in the nearby forthcoming of wearable technology devices.

Like the iPhone SJ concept before it, De Rosa’s iWatch 2 (which is itself a change of an senior iWatch design) looks same something that you could easily envisage gracing the desk of Apple organisation guru Jony Ive at this rattling moment: It has the metal and render attractiveness of the iPhone 4 and 4S, along with an on-screen UI that looks convincingly iOS inspired.

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De Rosa says the watch’s notional glasses allow Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, the latter to wage a stabilize take of accumulation from a adjoining iPhone or iPad, along with a standalone RSS reverend and front-facing camera. He also adds an LCD projector to the list, because ground not?

While I don’t wait to wager anything quite so feature-rich become discover of Cupertino, I do conceive De Rosa is on the correct track; an Apple-created adjoining check would no uncertainty hit kindred beatific looks, a peak of buttons and the knowledge to enter to iOS devices to clutch and pass aggregation feeds. But Apple also is disreputable for ownership its creation lines tight, so much a device, which would confessedly belike hit restricted attractiveness initially (will iPhone buyers rattling poverty to pay an additional $200+ for what’s essentially a alternative display?) probable isn’t a crowning priority.

Regardless of what Apple actually has designed in the artefact of wearable wrist-top computing, I ease poverty this construct to control discover of my dreams and on to my wrist. What most you?

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JUDGE INTERPRETS ’263 PATENT IN APPLE’S FAVOR IN HTC ANDROID APPEAL

iPhoneguy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:20:03 +0000

United States Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has issued an rendering of Apple’s ’263 papers that is probable to termination in a commission uncovering HTC (and Android in general) of misconduct in the key “realtime API” housing previously passed over by the ITC.

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WHY ANDROID ISN’T GAINING ON APPLE IN THE ENTERPRISE

iPhoneguy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:20:03 +0000

In the consumer market, Apple’s iOS and Android’s licensees hit geared in a consumer labour of struggle over sales. Among project buyers however, Apple has serviceable comprehensive advance that is exclusive strengthening.

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YAHOO KILLS A BUNCH OF MOBILE APPS YOU’VE NEVER USED

iPhoneguy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:20:03 +0000

Yahoo is cleanup concern on the ambulatory creation side, announcing weekday that it is “decommissioning” a daylong itemize of ambulatory apps.

Apps that module no individual be based allow winners same Yahoo! Meme and character Mim (say what?), as substantially as whatever more generalized ambulatory apps same character Answers for Android and character Deals for iPhone. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Sketch-a-search, which I didn’t modify undergo was a abstract before today, is also effort the axe. (You crapper wager the flooded itemize on the official announcement.)

Somewhat paradoxically, character is pitching its non-support of these apps as conception of its “mobile first” mindset. But for anyone stipendiary attention, this could be conception of a bounteous travel nervy for character as it transitions low new CEO histrion Thompson.

Over at Google, CEO Larry Page calls this strategy swing more vegetation behindhand less arrows. For a consort same Yahoo, which has been somewhat stymied by a demand of innovation, it makes significance to blackball soured products that consumers aren’t using and threefold downbound on those linked to its set properties, same character Mail, Messenger and Flickr, as substantially as applications same IntoNow where it crapper inform tumultuous recent technology.

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AT&T PUNISHES ITS CUSTOMERS FOR T-MO MERGER’S FAILURE

iPhoneguy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:06 +0000

Wondering ground AT&T smartphone accumulation rates foregather went up? Because the operator was denied its acquisition of T-Mobile – at small that’s what AT&T CEO Randall businessman tacit at AT&T’s business results call on Thursday. AT&T seems frightfully bitter most AT&T-Mo’s failure, and today it appears to be attractive it discover on its customers.

After destructive the agent Communication Commission for “picking winners and losers” in the wireless business by scrutinizing every deal, businessman claimed AT&T is today in a ambulatory capacity-constrained surround which has unnatural it to improve prices and control unification speeds (aka throttle) for its maximal intensity subscribers.

This is foregather stark vindictive. There definitely is reciprocity between power and pricing; the aforementioned reciprocity that exists between cater and demand. But AT&T isn’t mass supply-and-demand logic. While AT&T upraised its coverall smartphone accumulation organisation rates terminal week, it actually downbound by 25 proportionality the prices customers clear for a gigabyte of accumulation on its most favourite mid-tier ambulatory accumulation plan.

Stephenson claimed that AT&T was the traveler most strained by the discharge in ambulatory accumulation practice because it was the prototypal cause to intend the iPhone, which advise to lie its sales. AT&T’s smartphone onset among lessen subscribers is today 56.8 proportionality compared to Verizon’s 44 percent, still AT&T’s ambulatory accumulation rates are 50 proportionality cheaper than Verizon’s.

If AT&T were rattling that unnatural by meshwork capacity, it wouldn’t be cloudy the toll it charges to hit apiece byte. AT&T’s toll hikes are exclusive a income play. By upbringing the prices of its accumulation organisation tiers, it’s guaranteeing it module intend $5 more a period on apiece recent smartphone customer, but it won’t be limiting their usage. Instead it’s actually hortative its customers to spend more.

To foregather this questionable power crunch, businessman claimed AT&T has been unnatural to concentrate as much action discover of its underway networks as possible. It’s deploying diffuse sensitiveness systems to nearby its news into more nooks and crannies, splitting cells so it crapper reuse its cancellated and PCS spectrum in more places. It also swollen material and Ethernet backhaul course to the eld of its radiophone sites, so that 80 proportionality of its ambulatory band reciprocation is sport over 14 Mbps HSPA+ connections. The implication is that AT&T wouldn’t hit to verify much drastic measures if the polity had permit it chum up with a competitor.

But AT&T began experiencing its Brobdingnagian act up in meshwork accumulation reciprocation in 2008 when the iPhone 3G was introduced. AT&T saw this accumulation wave reaching nearly quaternary eld ago. Why didn’t the consort equip in LTE sooner, or ingest the AWS spectrum its been movement on for nearly sextet years?

Stephenson had answers to those questions as well. He said AT&T crapper exclusive wait 30 proportionality of its ambulatory accumulation reciprocation to advise to LTE in the nearby term, message its HSPA+ meshwork module hit to assume its power charge for whatever time. That’s genuine — Verizon is experiencing kindred problems. In its ordinal lodge earnings, Verizon revealed that the vast eld of recent smartphone customers are still language up for 3G-only plans, mostly because the iPhone lacks LTE support.

But T-Mobile wouldn’t hit resolved that problem. AT&T designed to closed downbound T-Mobile’s HSPA+ so the operators could consolidate their AWS spectrum in visit to move a large LTE network. If the integration had succeeded, AT&T’s HSPA+ meshwork would hit had to vantage threefold duty, direction both carriers’ 4G customers patch AT&T transitioned to LTE. I’m not refuting that AT&T’s meshwork is streaming hot, but its problems seem to be mostly of its possess making, and purchase T-Mobile wouldn’t hit resolved some of its unmediated power needs.

Finally, businessman lambasted the FCC over what AT&T considers the commission’s capricious rulemaking, and he repeated AT&T’s call for legislature to move environment spectrum sell policy. Ironically, today’s more alert FCC is AT&T’s possess agency creation. As I wrote in a place early Thursday, AT&T’s compounding ambitions lit a blast low regulators, which had been content to permit every field wireless care motion for the terminal decade. The FCC and U.S. Department of Justice are today more aggressive, and we hit AT&T to thank.

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APPLE MAINTAINS DOMINANCE OF GLOBAL TABLET MARKET WITH 58% SHARE IN Q4 2011

iPhoneguy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:40:06 +0000

Shipments of 15.4 meg iPads in the ordinal lodge of calendar 2011 gave Apple a high 58 proportionality of the market, patch Amazon’s Kindle Fire helped modify up Android paper shipments to a achievement 39 percent, according to only one analysis.

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