December 2010
6 posts
I’m still a bit confused. Steve Jobs at Apple’s Q4 earnings report made a comment about Android fragmentation and backed it up saying that Rovio, makers of Angry Bird, had a hard time porting the game to Android because of the fragmentation problem.
No we didn’t replied Rovio.
Electronista carries an interview of sorts with Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio in which Vesterbacka...
Dan Frommer declares Windows Phone 7 “toast” and says why. One of my arguments has been that Microsoft can’t afford not to be a big smartphone player but Frommer tweeted:
Microsoft has a lot of money, but what are they doing to do to get people interested? The story is still missing.
As Frommer asks, what will drive adoption of the WP7 platform? They don’t have many...
Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC. What do 3 of these companies have in common? They’re all suing Google. And who are EMC? They are a private cloud company, a Google competitor.
Why does that matter? Because these 4 companies have formed a consortium called CPTN Holdings LLC, a company incorporated in Delaware which just purchased 882 patents for $442 million in cash from the company...
Comparing iPhone ads to Windows Phone 7 ads reveals much about why one company is surging and one company is struggling.
Have you seen the “Really?” ads for Win Phone 7? Here’s one. The basic premise for all these ads is that people are unhappily glued to their smartphones and have lost all connection with the “REAL” world. The advantage of using a Windows Phone 7...
Here’s an interesting tidbit: The BBC iPlayer is being rolled out for an international non-British audience as a subscription service that runs on the iPad. Hello, what does this tell us?
1) It tells us that iPlayer for iOS will not be a Flash app, most likely HTML5. And that means that unless the BBC decide not to, that the iPlayer app will bounce video from the iPad its playing on to...
Bloomberg has caught up with info that I published months ago (on April 25 to be exact) here at RelentlessFocus, namely, that Apple had hired a world class law firm specialising in IP law (Kirkland and Ellis). Apple’s team of lawyers at K&E is led by the leading IP lawyer Robert Krupka who has won many big IP cases.
So much for breaking news over at Bloomberg.
That Bloomberg article...