Software 
Android Falters as IOS Strengthens – Businessweek
If they did, they would bypass Apple’s older phones. 4. First-time buyers pick Android, but … NPD did note that first-time smartphone buyers favor Android over iOS (54 percent versus 34 percent), which I suspect is mainly due to price.
HP: Apple iOS and Google Android Too Insecure for Enterprises. – Xbitlabs.com
While Apple claims that nearly all of the top companies within major Fortune 500 markets are actively using iPad slates to improve workflows, business processes and customer engagements, Hewlett-Packard claims that neither Apple iOS- nor Google Android …
Best Buy Hints at a 42 inch Apple TV with iOS – The Future of Things
Rumors that Apple will be heading into the TV business have been floating around for years but it seems that a recent survey conducted by Best Buy might have revealed what influence such a device will have on the industry … Continue reading
A Brave and Better World? The iPad and the Future of Planning – PLANetizen
Most of my graduate planning students and several of my colleagues have iPads. And many of them have iCloud accounts. I never much saw the value of the iPad, but then just recently, I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple … Continue reading
More Apple ‘iTV’ Rumors: Cable Companies Getting on Board? – Time
Also this week, Best Buy was caught surveying customers to see whether they’d buy a 42-inch Apple HDTV running iOS for $1,499. The product was apparently just a hypothetical, from a third-party research company, but I’ll bet Apple’s not …
Apple cracks down on iPhone firms using appayola marketing services – The Guardian
Ferocious competition on the App Store means many iOS developers eagerly embrace any tool or service promising to send their apps soaring up the charts. However, Apple has reminded app-makers that using some services may lead to them being stripped … Continue reading
The App Economy and Open Services Innovation – Article.nationalreview.com
And so tightly constrained platforms represent in some sense a more attractive alternative to the authorities — regulators effectively deputize Apple to police its iOS walled garden. But these tightly constrained platforms are less likely to …
Thesis Paper Reveals Apple Tried to Get Mac OS X to Run on ARM Chips – PC Magazine
The Darwin kernel is also part of iOS, but the paper makes it clear that the project involved running Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system on a MV88F6281 chip. Schaap’s subtitle, “ARMing the Snow Leopard,” indicates as … Continue reading
Apple Kindly Asks Developers to Play Ball – Softpedia
After pulling a number of fraudulent applications from iTunes, Apple is reminding iOS developers that if they want to do business in the App Store, they’ll have to play by the rules. Particularly, the Cupertino giant has issued a reminder … Continue reading
Apple threatens to boot developers that game the App Store – Financial Times
an iOS gaming site, where a developer described an ad network which had “guaranteed to get my app into the Top 25 in the app store at a relatively cheap price ($5000)”. Mobile ad networks are nothing sinister in themselves: … Continue reading
