Apple get set for Mr “Need an Extended Warranty?”
You know those scenes where a robot gets conflicting inputs, spins on the spot, and has smoke coming out of their ears? Tim Cook hires head of Dixons to mastermind the Apple Stores.
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Are smartphone app stores better than the ‘Pass’ line at Craps?
Here’s why the App Store game is great for the handset manfuactures but useless for the majority of developer and entrepeneurs. From the NY Times on releasing an app into the iTunes store before Christmas.  Mr. Barnard and his small team have built apps like Tweet Speaker, which reads Twitter messages aloud, and Mirror, which turns the iPhone screen into a mirror with the help of the front-facing camera. “If we can get that snowball rolling and get it right, we can ride the momentum,†he said. “We’re going to give it a shot.†I’m sorry, but releasing an app should
Apple switches soup for silos, and I’m sad.
While it’s the “modern” way, part of me is disappointed to read about the silo-ing of applications that Apple is looking to enforce in the Mac App store. It is a natural step to mimic iOS (and another step on cross-compatibility), and it echoes the approach Microsoft will have on the Windows 8 store, but when you look back at the data storage on the Apple Newton, there’s a complete 180. For those of you not aware, the Newton stored all your data in a “soup” of information. Think of it like a cloud of data in your PDA. And any application
The problem with Android’s timeline argument
I’m sure that private and public timeline are different, and arguing that the Android timeline is “older” because it was more in the public eye than Apple will cause no end of fanboy wars. But if you want to look at timelines, how about Android before iPhone and Android after iPhone? So pardon me if I raise an eyebrow to Eric Schmidt today: …I think most people would agree that Google is a great innovator and I would also point out that the Android effort started before the iPhone effort.
I’ll make this the best photo app for you
Batch might not be the best photo application for iOS out there, but now it’s been anointed by Michael Arrington it’s sure to gather a lot more downloads than last week, put it in the geekerati radar, and do rather better than it would have done. It appears Arrington can still call  the winners.
The Pincer Movement that could kill Android
Okay, some pure speculation on my part (and a link-bait of a headline), but could the next twelve months see a pincer movement on Android that neuters the Google dominance in the mobile space? On one side, Apple. They’ve just launched the iPhone 4S, with stunning sales. No matter what you think of the iPhone as a platform, the public see it as one of the leading handsets. Even when the Nokia N95 was technical delight, it was the Apple phone that caught the public. Times have changed, and as Google pull out as many stops as they can to
