iSuppli Projects Windows Phone to Surpass iPhone
in Market Share by 2015

post from Daring Fireball on 21 January 2012 10:03:09 PM. © Daring Fireball

And half our new TVs will be running Google TV in four months. Claim chowder file is getting fat.

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Why Apple Products Are Manufactured in China

post from Daring Fireball on 21 January 2012 07:04:32 PM. © Daring Fireball

Fascinating well-researched investigative report by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher for the New York Times, on the rise of China as a manufacturing power and the corresponding effect on middle class jobs in the U.S., with Apple as the case study. Includes this heretofore unknown (to me, at least) story on the original iPhone’s last-minute change from a plastic to glass display:

In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled toappear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants intoan office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of thedevice in his pocket.
Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone couldsee the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic screen,according to someone who attended the meeting. He then pulled hiskeys from his jeans.
People will carry this phone in their pocket, he said. People alsocarry their keys in their pocket. ?I won?t sell a product thatgets scratched,? he said tensely. The only solution was usingunscratchable glass instead. ?I want a glass screen, and I want itperfect in six weeks.?
After one executive left that meeting, he booked a flight toShenzhen, China. If Mr. Jobs wanted perfect, there was nowhereelse to go.

The Times has quotes from former and present (unnamed in the latter case, of course) executives who all paint the same picture: that Chinese manufacturing isn’t merely cheaper, but also perhaps even more importantly, nimbler, more flexible, and faster:

?They could hire 3,000 people overnight,? said Jennifer Rigoni,who was Apple?s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, butdeclined to discuss specifics of her work. ?What U.S. plant canfind 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms??

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Nielsen U.S. Smartphone Numbers

post from Daring Fireball on 21 January 2012 07:04:32 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nielsen: “Apple Closes the Gap on Android.” And the lights are going out for RIM.

As MG Siegler notes, imagine how well iOS would be doing if the iPhone 4S weren’t such a disappointment.

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http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/more-us-consumers-choosing-smartphon
es-as-apple-closes-the-gap-on-android/

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Y Combinator: Kill Hollywood

post from Daring Fireball on 21 January 2012 04:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Paul Graham’s Y Combinator is looking to fund entertainment startups:

The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn’t stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it’s only when he’s beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten. And yet the audiences to be captured from movies and TV are still huge. There is a lot of potential energy to be liberated there.

Huge opportunity here. Forms of entertainment evolve and sometimes die, but the aggregate demand for entertainment is ever-growing.

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http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html

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Kinema - The Movie Database

post from prMac on 21 January 2012 01:45:00 PM. © prMac

Appsequence introduces Kinema 1.0, their exciting new movie entertainment app for iOS. Featuring an intuitive, streamlined interface, Kinema aims to list every detail about every movie ever made. Users can find out what movies are playing in theater and check out what other movies are coming up. They can search through their listings, read the synopsis and reviews and watch the trailer before deciding whether or not to go check out the film.

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MacForensicsLab 4.0 released

post from prMac on 21 January 2012 11:41:00 AM. © prMac

SubRosaSoft.com announces the latest version of their powerful computer forensic suite, MacForensicsLab 4.0. The new version brings a streamlined interface and many other improvements to make examinations quicker and more accurate than ever before. The examination process has also been improved with the addition of better bookmarking, more auditing control, and other improvements. The redesigned interface allows tasks to be carried out using fewer clicks for faster results.

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Doozy 2.0 - Visual Productivity Gets a Huge
Update

post from prMac on 21 January 2012 11:00:00 AM. © prMac

California based Raj Bains announced today the release of Doozy 2.0 for iOS. Doozy is to task management what a chalkboard or whiteboard is to brainstorming. By transforming tasks and events into interactive icons, Doozy literally shows users what they need to do. Doozy takes standard task management - priority-sorted lists, notes, multiple calendars, etc. - and ties in unique features like RSS/XML feed tracking, weather forecasts, tracking/graphing of numbers and progress, and much more.

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HTT Studio Releases Hidden Calculator Pro 1.0

HTT Studio introduces Hidden Calculator Pro 1.0, where users can protect their data privacy on their iOS device. Private photos, videos and documents are viewed in albums format so that users could manage their private data easily. It acts like a normal calculator - users could their hide private pictures/ videos/ documents in the hidden safe behind a working calculator. Simply type the secret number combination into the calculator to reveal the secret files.

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Top Camera 3.5 update adds Focus and Exposure
Lock

Lucky Clan today releases Top Camera 3.5 for iOS, an update to their versatile Photography app that adds more than 25 features to the standard iOS Camera app. Top Camera supports operation in both portrait and landscape orientations, includes iTunes File Sharing, and saves images to its internal Gallery, the iOS Photo Library, or both. Version 3.5 includes many new features & bug fixes, including adding a focus and exposure lock, "send feedback" button, new design of focus/expose box, and more.

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Remoter for Mac 1.0.1 - Remote Access For Mac
Made Easy

Remoter Labs today announces Remoter 1.0.1 for OS X, an update to their brand new productivity app that allows users to remotely control Macs via Screen Sharing, and Windows or Linux PCs using the VNC or RDP standards. Remoter offers one of the fastest implementations of the VNC and RDP protocols on the Mac platform. The app uses Bonjour to make setup a cinch. Sound redirection, RDP, Telnet and SSH which also allows for secure VNC/RDP over SSH, are included.

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