I Was Wrong about Apple’s iWatch
By Mike Elgan
“In my old post, I wrote that Apple is unique in the industry in that it has three criteria for entering an entirely new market:
1. There are glaring problems or inadequacies among all major players in the market that can be solved by Apple’s core competency of elegant design.
2. The new market area enables Apple to control a new platform that supports an ecosystem of content, such as media or apps.
3. Both the potential market and the marketplace for content must be huge, mainstream and central to how most people live.”
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iOS’s Internet market share hits a record 54.65%
And where is Android? Still trailing Java ME, according to Net Applications
You would think that withnearly 50% of the global market for smartphones that Google’s (GOOG) Android would also dominate the Web.
Not so, according to areport issued Saturday by Net Applications.
Yes, the game-changing device still accounts for about 7 per cent of quar ter ly rev enues. But Apple’s money could be bet ter spent else where. Here’s why and where
The best selling iPad app on the App Store was created with Adobe Flash
The mobile app versus mobile web debate, a concept made famous by Steve Job’s walled garden vision of the Internet, has been highlighted again, this time by Google.
Just before the start of the Labor Day weekend it announced it was cutting off AdMob support for mobile web sites seeking to monetize their mobile web content and pushing them onto its AdSense ad platform. Mobile app developers will continue to use AdMob.
To mobile web developers and those few companies that have utterly committed to their mobile strategies this is big news and undoubtedly a hassle too (something even Google alludes to in its blog post: “We know that these sorts of transitions can cause our customers some extra work….”). …
