Gartner on Apples Share of Mobile App Sales

post from Daring Fireball on 18 January 2010 11:51:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Chris Foresman, on a new report from Gartner on mobile app sales:

Earlier this month, Apple announced that sales had topped 3 billion; that means iPhone users downloaded 2.5 billion apps in 2009 alone. Gartner’s figures show another 16 million apps that could come from other platform’s recently opened app stores, giving Apple at least 99.4 percent of all mobile apps sold for the year.

Foresman is wrong here. Apple didn’t announce 3 billion App Store sales; they announced 3 billion downloads, including free apps. Apple has never (to my knowledge) publicly revealed the breakdown between free and paid app downloads from the App Store.

However, if Gartner is correct that all other platforms combined accounted for only 16 million mobile app sales last year, then Apple’s share of the market is astonishingly high. It’s not 99.4 percent, as Foresman indicates, but still crazy-ass high.

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Ed Bott: Its Time to Stop Using IE6

post from Daring Fireball on 18 January 2010 11:48:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

I hear next week he’s going to say it’s time to stop using floppy disks.

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Windows Phone 7 exactly like Zune HD

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 January 2010 11:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Windows Mobile 7, possibly known as Windows Phone 7, could represent a complete break from version 6...

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John Siracusa Looks Back at His Decade-Ago Early
Mac OS X Reviews

post from Daring Fireball on 18 January 2010 09:28:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

From page four, on what’s wrong (and has always been wrong) with the Mac OS X Finder:

As for users’ ability to experience the benefits of spatial consistency, regardless of whether they understand the origin, my views are continually reinforced by the masses’ unflagging devotion to the lone remaining relentlessly spatially consistent interface element: the desktop. People love to fill their desktops with files, and the less comfortable a person is with computers, the more likely he or she is to do so.

The reason is simple: the desktop is the one “place” on the computer that every user knows how to get to. People don’t even think of it as existing in the file hierarchy (though, of course, it does); to them it’s a location in the physical sense, and items placed within it behave almost as if they were real objects. A file can be “lost” in the file hierarchy — irretrievably, as far as novice users are concerned — but finding something on the desktop will never be any worse than rummaging through the messiest real-life junk drawer. And that bargain, that task of keeping things neat by placing, removing, and arranging, is something that people are comfortable with, and that their innate human abilities are tailored for.

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HarperCollins said in talks for Apple tablet
books

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 January 2010 08:20:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Publisher HarperCollins is negotiating e-books for Apple's upcoming tablet, a late Wednesday rumor ...

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Samsung refreshes TL, SL ultracompact cams

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 January 2010 07:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Samsung rounded out a small wave of compact cameras with a trio of new smaller models. The TL105 an...

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Samsung rolls out HZ30W series compact ultrazooms

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 January 2010 07:30:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Samsung chose a post-CES launch add to its camera line for the US. At the top of the unveilings are...

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Xbox rumored to get streaming ESPN

Microsoft is hoping to gain an edge in networked media hubs by offering live sports through the Xbox...

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Advanced Task Killer

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, I switched, cold turkey, to a Nexus One on Friday. (I borrowed it from App Cubby developer David Barnard, who was kind enough to lend it to me for a few weeks.) I’ve been tweeting some initial observations, and eventually plan to write a full review/comparison to the iPhone.

As a snapshot, though, I can think of no better example to epitomize the difference between Android and iPhone OS than Advanced Task Killer, a third-party Android app. That this app even exists is, on the one hand, exactly what many Android fans like about Android, and on the other hand exactly what many iPhone fans see as wrong about Android.

(Via Dave Winer.)

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