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[Internetnews Blog] Apple's Snow Leopard puts the industry to shame - InternetNews:The ...: Although with regard to third "P", I should point out that, as I'm sure you know, prickishness is by no means limited to the Cult of Apple; I've had to pass on approving a few dozen profanity-laden posts from Windows die-hards that wouldn't pass muster on any reasonably workplace-friendly IT news site, and which, more unfortunately, don't even attempt to add anything to the conversation.

[Kimom / Published News] #mobilize/all things connected:   Front home screen always on with context and location so info is relevant is very powerful, allows user to act quickly without logging in to web page.  Too many apps, over 60,000 apps, only a few make money.  Google working on how to make apps more discoverable as app store inventory grows.  T-Mobile to use retail footprint, 1700 stores, sales reps can aid discovery.  Paid and new apps, categorizing and merchandising stores need to be improved.  Once they discover an app make it easier to recommend to friends and family, word of mouth is key.  Not setting up T-Mobile app store, working with Android for an open marketplace but playing a role in discovery, and of course improve ways for app developers to leverage carrier billing, make it more frictionless, to pay with one click, next accelerant for app store consumption.  Phone company has to evolve from closed telco mindset to open web-based infrastructures to allow more rapid development to get things to market, allow application innovation.   T-Mobile is a communications company, it’s what occurs on the desktop, internet, devices we haven’t even thought of yet, need to breakdown the way we’ve traditionally gone to market.  Mobile internet 3-5y from today, starts with ubiquitous wireless broadband network $9B investment in 3G married with increasingly open operating systems, open APIs, increases in memory, battery life, processing power.

[CrunchGear] What, if anything, is stopping you from leaving your iPod for the ...: it is clear from the above the Zune does not really compete with the Touch at all, despite the hype, with its universe of email and apps abilities that put the Touch in a different category of supersmart PMP’s. instead the Zune really competes with the Nano, which has pretty much the same abilities plus the new video camera, but a smaller screen and lower price.

[Mark Sigal's Blog - The Network Garden] Mark Sigal's Blog - The Network Garden: iPhones, App Stores and ...: OS11, love or hate Microsoft, to dismiss their ability to properly read the market, build a coalition around their platform, side with IBM when it served/enabled them and fork away when it didn't and execute brilliantly across tools, hardware abstractions, OS and apps is way too simplistic; no different than folks who say Google got lucky, conveniently forgetting the fact that no one thought search was a field of gold before Google.

[O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone] iPhones, App Stores and Ecosystems - O'Reilly Broadcast: Palm *had* a thriving developer community and ecosystem for many years and selling apps still had a lot of barriers: Customers had to know apps existed, to find where to download them, to actually download them to their desktop, to install them onto their phone/handheld, and to actually go back and purchase them, usually after a trial. Every step of the way was painful, created lots of support issues, and provided for many reasons not to complete the transaction.

[SuperSite Blog] Apple offers up evolutionary iPod updates, Jobs at music event ...:  I was just saying that if you want to apply the rule of tying iTunes to iPod and offering an incentive for consumers to stay within the Apple ecosystem, just as the Zune did, even though Zune isn't a monopoly, then the same rules should apply to Apple in the computer industry with tying their operating system to their computer systems and not allowing other computer builders to offer OS X, just as Microsoft offered OEM deals, as you like to point out.  You can't give Apple a pass in the MP3 player market when they're doing the same thing that Microsoft did with OEM's in the past.

[Today @ PC World] Today @ PC World Studios Bid On Liberating Digital Media 'Ecosystem': Apple is the biggest player in the digital media market and its "Fairplay" DRM system restricts files bought through iTunes to be played on more than five computers or on any mobile device other than iPod or iPhone. To make things even easier, DECE intends to give .

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Fish report hits bottom note: Many deep-sea fishers are small operations trying to make "end's meat", as would be the case with many of the orange roughy fishermen in NW Europe. Also much deep-sea fish is not premium grade fish and will just end up as cheap fishmeal (that will probably go on to feed your "organic salmon" - but that is a debate for another day).

[SuperSite Blog] Apple's culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it ...: One thing I've often thought with Apple is how much worse off the PC industry would be if they were ever dominant, because they're such a belligerent company. But a more level-headed way to view Apple's recent push-backs from the top of the heap is that they're suffering from exactly the same problematic mind-set that doomed Microsoft a decade/decade-and-a-half ago, back when antitrust regulators from the FTC and DOJ first accused the company of illegal anti-competitive behavior.

[Ovi Gaming - News] Ovi Gaming - What the heck is Nokia up to with N-Gage?: The only possible way that Apple could get close to that is if they brought out budget models that cost less than a fifth of the iPhone's price, but so far there hasn't been any word of that happening (and it's difficult to see how it could possibly happen with the iPhone's current interface which is dependent on high end hardware being present). If Apple brought out a mass market phone which retailed for less than 100 euros unlocked and came with an app store, then I'd start seeing them as a direct rival to Nokia and Ovi Store.

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