Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year. They should evolve with you. Technology moves so quickly that companies rush to release a new phone each year, but most times even that isn’t fast enough. This deluge of devices isn’t good for your wallet or for the planet. Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates forweiterlesen

Essential launches publicly today with the announcement of two products expected later this summer: a $699 smartphone called Phone and a smart-home hub called Home that Rubin hopes will bring order to the endless standards, protocols, and systems wrought by the Internet of Things. To understand what Essential hopes to achieve in the long term, look at theweiterlesen

[Eric] Schmidt had apparently not been included in any of Apple's internal discussions related to iPad, which launched at the beginning of 2010. Its success essentially destroyed the once booming netbook category that Google's Chrome OS had originally targeted. […] Without Chrome OS ready, Google didn't have any official response to the iPad for anweiterlesen

Dieses Android, das läuft ganz super. Für Samsung. Für Samsung allein. Also noteworthy is that almost all the value from the Android ecosystem is concentrated in Samsung. I did not include Google in this analysis since its mobile is so small as to be not visible in its accounting. A separate analysis of Android economicsweiterlesen

Obwohl eine offizielle Einladung weiter aussteht, verfestigen sich die bereits großflächig gestreuten Gerüchte um ein Apple-Event am 07. März. Der gewöhnlich exzellent informierte Jim Dalrymple korrigierte, genau wie mittlerweile ‚The Verge‚, den CNBC-Tweet um dessen Ortsangabe. Sicher ist: Mit der nächsten iPad-Generation erhöht Apple abermals den Abstand zu seinen kampflosen Mitbewerbern. Spektakuläre ‚Barcelona-Tablets‘ blieben demweiterlesen

Das Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe klopft Motorola für seinen Umgang mit Grundlagenpatenten gegenüber Apple kräftig auf die Finger. “At the current state of the proceedings, it is to be assumed that Motorola Mobility would violate its duties under antitrust rules if it continues to ask Apple to stop the sales,” the court said in a statement. via Bloombergweiterlesen

The Apple App store for iPhone generates about four times the revenue that is generated in the Google Android Market. […] Half of the revenue of the 200 top grossing apps in the Apple App Store for iPhone is now generated by freemium apps. This proportion is even higher in the Google Android Market whereweiterlesen

Ultimately, you’ve got to choose a bottom-line number. Is the most successful mobile platform the one that’s moving the most units right now? Fair enough, and that might be Android. Is it the one that’s racking up the biggest profits? That sounds most logical to me–and that platform seems to be iOS. via CNET News Harryweiterlesen