Apple’s statistics from AdMob have been impressive over the last year. It seems that iPhone and iPod touch owners are heavy Internet users. Forrester Research even quoted AdMob’s findings in their “Mobile Internet: Where is Your Audience?” paper. One thing I’ve noticed, however, is that quite a few of my free apps have ads served [...]
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Some thoughts on the ‘vulnerability’ of the 3G S $AAPL
Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. Some counterpoints: The iPhone 3G S has to be in the physical possession of the hacker (instead of an over-the-air attack). The iPhone can be wiped remotely (however, MobileMe, push, and Find My iPhone must be turned on, and must be [...]
$Palm doesn’t really have time to still be looking for gaming features.
Palm and Sprint entered the fray, directly targeting the iPhone, and didn’t have is gaming ability ducks in a row? I understand that the job postings mentioned in the below links could be to augment the existing capacity, but the timing still indicates a lack of strategy and bad timing. I, for some reason, assumed [...]
How well has the Sprint/Palm campaign against Apple has been doing?
Article: Sprint Palm Pre campaign wants bite of Apple’s pie Interesting statistics on Sprint’s NOW Network campaign and how well it as performed against the buzz that the iPhone creates. Things that I take away from this article: Sprint and Palm are name-dropping Twitter and Facebook to freshen up their image. Aggressive marketing of the [...]
Better luck today loading the $PALM Pre Emulator
Yesterday, I decided to install the Mojo SDK for the Palm Pre (open to everyone at developer.palm.com). That wasn’t going so well, because of the emulator’s dependence on VirtualBox, and my version was too old for use with the emulator. Today, I had better luck on a different machine, but still had conflicts with running [...]
Despite my pessism for $PALM’s long term prospects, I’m installing the Mojo SDK
(Besides, I can’t afford a Mac at the moment to begin native app development for the iPhone.) I guess Palm finally started feeling the pressure of the developers wanting to get their hands on the SDK and opportunity slipping away with other phones stealing the Pre’s thunder. One thing I’ve noticed so far is the [...]
The varied cost of applications (and developing them) for different mobile devices
As I find myself slowing losing resistance to buying an iPhone, I started thinking about all the free and $0.99 apps on the App Store. Granted, I’m using a platform (Palm OS) that is migrating from being “cheap because it’s old” to being “expensive because no one builds them anymore.” However, there are still Palm [...]
I don’t see positive signs for the $PALM Pre.
I thought I put in an application for the mojo sdk, but there’s still a link on the Palm Pre info page to Apply for “Early Access” to the Mojo SDK. First result for Palm App Store leaves no Palm Pre mention. According to the App Store Wikipedia entry, the Palm Pre Store is “Palm [...]
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