updated 11:10 am EDT, Sun September 5, 2010 Moto Droid 2 ad jabs iPhone’s ‘app for that’ spots Motorola this weekend poked fun at Apple again with another ad, this time for the Droid 2. The full-page newspaper spread riffs on Apple’s “there’s an app for that” iPhone spots with the simple question “Flash websites? [...]
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Motorola Droid 2 ad takes dig at Apple’s lack of Flash
Posted by Gary on September 6, 2010
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Sony Walkmans outsell the iPod in Japan for a month
Posted by Gary on September 4, 2010
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In America — and frankly, most of the rest of the world — Apple’s venerable iPod line is pretty much synonymous with PMP… but apparently, Sony’s ancient Walkman series still has the muscle to beat the iPod at its own game. According to research firm BCN, who have been keeping track of monthly MP3 player [...]
[iLounge]-Report: Google pays Apple $100M/year for iPhone search
Posted by Gary on February 19, 2010
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Google pays Apple more than $100 million annually for its position as the default Internet search engine on the iPhone, according to a new report. Citing a source familiar with Apple’s operations, Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple receives more than $100 million a year from Google as part of a revenue sharing deal, but [...]
[iLounge]-Periodical publishers ‘need’ customer data from Apple
Posted by Gary on February 19, 2010
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A number of newspaper and magazine publishers are expressing concerns over potential deals with Apple due to fears that the company will not be as forthcoming with customer data as the publications would like. The Financial Times reports that Apple’s history of sharing little customer data beyond sales volume information could prove to be a [...]
[iLounge]-Adobe CEO blasts Apple’s ‘proprietary’ business model
Speaking in an interview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen criticized Apple for its decision not to support Flash on its iPhone OS devices, according to a Computerworld report. Reiterating stats claiming that 85 percent of the top 100 Web sites in the world use Flash and that it [...]