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Moving from iOS to Android
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This pretty much sums up my experience when I switched from my iPhone 5 to a Nexus 4. There are pros and cons, but it takes a while to get used to the change, for better or worse. Thoughts on the Google Nexus 7 from the perspective of a longtime iOS user One striking thing,…
Charles Arthur explains on The Guardian why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users. TheNextWeb lamented Nike’s choice not to bring their FuelBand app to Android. For many, this glaring omission in Nike’s technological armory is astounding given that, well, Android represents somewhere in the region of 80% of the smartphone…
Business Insider reports on comments made by analyst Rick Sherlund on Microsoft. For the past few years, Microsoft reported the revenue and operating losses of Entertainment and Devices, which was the group that housed Xbox, Windows Phone, and those Android royalty payments. That group always seemed to be profitable, but Sherlund says it’s largely because…
Google’s revamped dialer for Android 4.4 KitKat which pulls information from Google Maps is pretty awesome. The news that Google is going to automatically use your Google+ photo for your caller ID might cause a privacy uproar by some folks though. Google will show your Google+ photo to Android callers starting early next year Android…
John Gruber posted a very good piece on the on-going patent war. This latest lawsuit filed by Rockstar is an escalation of a patent war against Google and Android, not the start of it. Nobody looks good here — not Apple, not Microsoft, but certainly not Google either. Google started filing lawsuits based on Motorola…