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OK Magazine this morning reports that U2 front man Bono may have lost millions through his investment in Palm via Elevation Partners, but OK Magazine seems to have got it wrong – this picture’s gloomy, but not quite so black, or so it appears.
One thing’s for sure, however – similar levels of investment in former U2 buddy, Apple, would have been a far shrewder move for the Irish singer, generating in excess of one hundred million dollars in the same period.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has allegedly moved to confirm that despite Apple’s recent move to lose many remote workers, Final Cut Pro is alive and well – it isn’t going away.
Amazon continues its mammoth effort to combat what it sees as the huge threat to its Kindle market posed by Apple’s iPad, now it transpires the company was on the phone to major publishers within moments of Apple’s introduction of its product in January.
Amazon started calling publishers before Steve Jobs had even left the stage at the iPad event, according to the New York Times. The company was attempting to find out what Apple offered and what publishers had agreed to offer Apple.
Amazon’s been trying to make publishers agree to deals which would have made Kindle books as expensive (or cheap) as those provided to any other eBook platform.
Publishers continue to experiment as they hope to exploit the potential of Apple’s iPad, iPod and iPhone for future developments in publishing, as authors and expressive artists look to develop new multimedia experiences for expression using the Apple tablet.
Artist Jonathan Howard, is putting together a children’s illustrated story as an iPhone app, but he says publishers aren’t fully exploiting the strengths of digital platforms. Read the rest of this entry
If you’re willing to think about it, it appears Mac OS X marketshare has climbed 29 percent in the past year, while Microsoft Windows has lost 3.8 per cent, new research informs.
New research also tells us that Mac OS X 10.5 still holds the largest portion of Apple’s OS X share, with 52.1 per cent, meaning plenty of opportunities for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard sales.
A splendid story, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the iTunes customer who downloaded the ten billionth song this week to offer congratulations (and tell them about the prize) but didn’t get the fanboi adulation he likely expected… instead he encountered father of three and grandfather of nine, Louie Sulcer.
And Sulcer thought someone was pulling his leg.
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We know this is old news, but we haven’t seen so many charts detailing the achievement – here’s what 10 billion track sales in seven years looks like. Enjoy. (Shame the top 25 downloads of all time are so dire).
Action, Arcade and Adventure games are the three leading categories on Apple’s App Store when it comes to games sales, a new report explains.
On average, Android and iPhone games titles are the cheapest around while those for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile games are most expensive and Nokia tries to straddle the middle ground, the latest Distimo report explains.
The report focuses this month on the Games category in application stores from all the major players in the US. More graphs and data after the break.
Feature creep is death. Feature creep is worse than inertia. Feature creep promises you the world, but it is in fact a world you’ll never explore, a kiss you’ll never feel, a dream you’ll never share.
Feature creep is worse than ignorance. Feature creep is rotten. Feature creep is a jobless software engineer, or an engineer attempting to secure an unsteady job. We have to fight feature creep. Just say no.
We’ve seen the rumours of new touchscreens, intelligent bezels, levitation and the ability to make a nice cup of coffee, but right now it looks like the next-gen iPhone’s going to have an insanely great new feature – it’s going to be cheaper!
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty is making these claims, saying the next-gen iPhone will have a lower cost of ownership and will include a new gesture-based functionality.
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