Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.1 The war ended a long time ago, buddy 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 friend posted about the
Free Post Android 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 formats. But that diversity
Free Post Android 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 devices out there – but
Free Post Android 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’s “no”. It’s
Free Post Android 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 Android fanboy wars are
Free Post Android 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 photos than anything else
Free Post amazon 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 Google/Amazon content tablet
Free Post Android 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 the original iPhone. Still,
Free Post Android Battery problems on your mobile? Pay for your apps New Scientist: STRUGGLING to make your smartphone battery last the whole day? Paying for your apps might help. Up to 75 per cent of the energy used by free versions of Android apps is spent serving up ads or tracking and uploading user data:
Free Post Android Why the Android/iOS battle isn't just about numbers Here’s the reason one mobile developer is getting out of the Android game: We spent about 20% of our total man-hours last year dealing with Android in one way or another – porting, platform specific bug fixes, customer service, etc. I would have preferred
Free Post Android Le Web: Marissa Mayer or Google Take Two So, what does Marissa Mayer have to offer us this year? After all, we had Schmidt yesterday… Well, a few things. Checkins + Deals will launch next week Latitude is still
Free Post Android Le Web: Eric Schmidt and his Android buddy Eric Scmidt, the executive chairman of Google kicks off the afternoon session, and he’s backing the conference theme of “social, mobile, local” . Is it just a fad asks Loïc? No, says Schmidt. has been with us for 10,000 years. Everything is mobile
Free Post Android Le Web: Dave Morin's Path from Facebook A liveblog of Dave Morin's talk about Path at LeWeb 11 in Paris.
Free Post Android #futureofmobile - a few more observations - We underestimate the impact of the mobile as the computer everyone has in their pockets at our peril. - The impact is less likely to be an evolution of what we do on the web and more likely to doing things centred around
Free Post Android #futureofmobile - five observations so far A few lunchtime notes:- Apple’s mindshare at conferences like this is truly terrifying – I’ve seem maybe three non-Apple laptops, and one non-Apple tablet. Otherwise, it’s wall-to-wall MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and iPads. - There’s a lot of hopes for
