I had an odd experience on Facebook the other day. It’s probably the closest I’ll ever come to those apocryphal tales of warriors emerging from the jungles of Asia to discover that the war ended decades ago. A…
Android
A collection of 18 posts
More on Android development costs - and opportunities
Paul St John Mackintosh responds to my earlier post about the BBC’s Android costs: Naturally, 3,000 different device sizes and capabilities are going to be harder and more expensive to develop for than around a thousand times fewer…
Android: Triple the development costs of iOS?
Interesting snippet hidden away in a BBC blogpost about iPlayer on Android: Today we have an Android development team that is almost 3 times the size of the iOS team. Three times? Wow. Android might have a numerical advantage in…
Is it worth publishing to Google Magazines yet?
Jasper Jackson: But is Google’s content store anywhere near being a credible competitor to Apple’s Newsstand, which has had a year headstart and can tap into Apple’s customer base of more than 400 million? Spoiler: The answer’…
Can we stop the Android/iOS fan war, please?
I don’t often go out of my way to link to stuff I write elsewhere – but this once, I’m going to. I’ve done a piece for the NEXT Berlin blog on why I think the iOS versus…
Are smartphones now essential for journalism?
Between hurricane Sandy and the US presidential elections we now have confirmation, if you needed it, that Instagram is a big social player. I can see why Facebook bought it – there’s plenty of evidence that people interact more around…
The Two Tier Tablet Market
In the shadow of a hurricane, Google launched some new tablets, a phone and a revamp of the latest version of Android. Pondering this, I’ve come to the comclusion that we’ve actually got two tiers of tablets: the…
Who wins in the Google versus Apple battle? Us
Fraser Spiers: I’m not a Google hater. In many ways, I rather wish that we could turn the clock back to 2007 and that ‘merger without merging’ that Eric Schmidt talked about with the integration of Google Maps on…