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Apple vs. App Developers – beware of innovation!
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.)
From the 
Android To Surpass Apple’s App Store In Size By August 2011
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.
Leaked new Apple product – this will change the game… again.
So it appears one of Apple’s web-devs inadvertently published details of a brand new, soon to be announced Apple product. The page was quickly taken down, but the interwebs were – as always – quick to take some screen grabs. Check out the shots below.
iSpy Conspiracy: Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You’ve Been, All The Time
Depending on your temperament, you’ll have a different reaction to seeing a map of literally everywhere you’ve taken your iPhone since you bought it.
This is a map of everywhere I’ve been for nearly the last year. Everywhere. I didn’t carry around a special tracking device. The FBI isn’t sending goons in unmarked vans to track me. All I did was use an iPhone.
Shoot real time collabrative video between 4 iPhones
This is looking the business! Allows people to shoot together with the “director” switching between cameras – stay tuned for a lot more home made news, sports and sitcoms done badly, made easier! Our in-house video team will absolutely love/hate this one.
Taptu
Really nice news, Facebook, Twitter etc mobile aggregator.
Taptu provides instant access to all your interests in one beautiful little app.
Check out what’s happening on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, keep up with the latest news and gossip from your favourite online sources and then share all the best bits with your friends.
More Media Time, on Various Screens
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.