Good news for users means trouble for developers.
As Apple has demonstrated, one of the dangers of innovating in the smartphone app market is there are no guarantees Apple won’t borrow your innovations and bake them into future iOS versions. (To state the obvious, there’s nothing stopping Google either.)
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via TechCrunch:
There’s no doubt Android Market will at some point offer more applications for download and/or purchase than Apple’s App Store, as the latter’s growth has been slowing down of late, while the Android application store’s growth rate has been accelerating.
From the NYT:
Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms.
That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet. But it also speaks to the increasing ubiquity of smartphones, which have brought media into what were once silent spaces.
Innovations in the music industry continue to come thick and fast. No sooner had we finished our article on DATAROCK’s new USB single, held inside a diamond shaped toy figurine, than we heard about US-based Bluebrain’s latest endeavor. The Washington duo’s new album — The National Mall — will take the form of a location aware app for the iPhone.
New ABC show Happy Endings may get off to a strong start with a mobile-to-Facebook push the network hopes to use as a template for future campaigns.
The network, working with Mogreet, is asking consumers to text “happy” to 21534, which returns to them a video featuring the show’s stars. Videos are updated every Wednesday when the show airs. The clip then shows up on each user’s Facebook wall. (See image below.)
Some guy has made a device to send and force video onto any screen he chooses.
Grindr, the massively popular mobile social app that helps guys find other guys that like guys who like guys…is releasing a version for the rest of us code named “Project Amicus”. The Grindr version allows users to upload their photo and preferences and view a map of potential partners in their area and then connect with them through messaging.
