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SM: OK. Give me some examples of things that can be automated. Let’s say even 40%, 50%, 60% who knows, whatever is needed that can be automated, what is that piece?
CR: A lot of it has to do with how you manage the data that’s being transported to the device, whether it’s rich media like audio and video and things like that, those are very transportable across all of the areas. In our platform that we use for native development, we have our own Java scripting engine built into it. In that way, our application engine allows us to many of the Java script types of things that you could do in a website. We’re able to then pour our client framework over to all the different devices. So, what we’re able to do is say that pressing a button is abstracted from the Java script code. The native button push down into our client framework and so we’re just driving the behavior. It’ll look native just like an iPhone app, but it’s driven off of a simpler cross-platform way to think about designing it. Read the full article »
Nothing seems to be stopping Apple’s growth path, as the company regained the title of the most valuable company in the world. Their strong product line-up helped them surge past market expectations on all fronts and quash analyst doubts of whether the company would be able to deliver after the loss of their visionary founder. Their products continue to gobble up market share. According to Nielsen’s research, while Android devices continue to lead the smartphone market share in the U.S., Apple’s devices are catching up. Android devices accounted for 48% of smartphone users in the market, while Apple’s iPhone was owned by 32.1% of users. Blackberry users were a distant third with an 11.6% contribution. However, a survey conducted on the users who purchased smartphones over the three-month period December 2011 through February 2012 saw that 48% of the buyers bought Android devices, while 43% chose the iPhone. The increasing popularity of the iPhone will help narrow the gap between them and Android devices.
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After a brief fumble last quarter, Apple is back with a bang. The new version of the iPhone has been met with strong acceptance, and Apple beat Android phones in the U.S. to become the leading smartphone device in the market. According to Kantar Worldpanel research, iPhone sales grew 128% in the last quarter of 2011 to 37 million units. Within the U.S., iPhones have a 44.9% market share, marginally ahead of Android’s 44.8% market share. Android continues to dominate in the European markets, but Apple is catching up. In the U.K., during the December quarter last year, Apple’s share grew 34% compared with 22% a year ago.
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Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not?
Ari Zilka: Twitter is both big data and it’s real time. Twitter could comb through their Tweets, their end user Tweets, and look for patterns in what people are Tweeting about. That’s the hashtags, in fact, where users self-tag as part of a pattern and a trend. Twitter then looks at those hashtags and the symbols’ trends. It also does regular pattern matching on our Tweets. It also has a real-time aspect. The entire interface to Twitter is about a real-time push of data between you and me and all our friends in our networks and so on. So, your question is excellent. Why aren’t they making money? Read the full article »
Sramana Mitra: I think I agree with you. You are saying that Groupon is the most significant. Groupon – and the others in that category, such as LivingSocial – is the more significant innovation in location-based coupon services in the recent generation.
Tasso Roumeliotis: Yes, exactly.
SM: What do you see as the impact of the intersection of social media and location-based services? Read the full article »
Samsung recently became the leading vendor of smartphones with a market share of 20%, up from 8.8% last year, according to a third-quarter market research report by IDC. It surpassed Apple, which has a 14.5% market share, down from 17% last year. Let’s take a closer look.
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The iPhone was released on Verizon in February this year. However, since it was not a new model, it was not as much a success as it was expected to be. With the iPhone 5 to be released soon, a huge spurt in sales is expected at Verizon, the No.1 wireless carrier. In the meantime, its closest rival, AT&T, is facing problems with its T-Mobile deal. Let’s take a closer look.
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Apple shipped its first iOS device, the iPhone, in the summer of 2007 and has not stopped since. Within a quarter, they sold over one million units. By July 2010, the company had reported sales of iOS devices to have crossed 100 million units sold, and this January, they reported sales of 160 million units. Last month, cumulative iOS device sales crossed 200 million units. To date, Apple has shipped 222 million iOS devices. Apple’s device popularity can be gauged from COO Tim Cook’s comment in the iPad2 “…we sold every iPad 2 in the quarter that we could make and so there certainly was not a shortage of demand.”
Apple is gaining market share across the globe within different market segments. Within the U.S., they are the third-largest PC seller. According to IDC Research, global PC shipments grew 2.6% over the year in the second quarter, compared to the 12% growth in the first quarter. Apple surpassed Acer to own 10.7% of the domestic PC market driven by strong sales of the iPad. A year ago, Apple commanded a 9% market share. In Europe, they recently overtook Nokia, again, this time in mobile ad impression share. InMobi research estimates that during the previous quarter, more than 2 billion ad impressions were served on Apple devices in Europe, commanding 19.5% of the Continent’s mobile ad share. The share of Nokia devices fell to 18.7% of ads in the region. Read the full article »
