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 Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM , LG, Sony (Ericsson) , Motorola , Nokia and HTC , only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all recorded losses for the quarter, Mr. . . . → Read More: Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits  When Apple launched iPhoto for iPhone, it quickly became clear that there was something odd going on with the maps in the application. Even though Apple never talked about this publicly, the data Apple used to render these new maps was clearly not from Google anymore. Instead, most experts agreed , Apple was using a number of different sources to create its new map tiles without giving proper credit to groups like OpenStreetMap , the Wikipedia-like crowdsourced mapping organization . . . → Read More: Apple Finally Gives Proper Credit To OpenStreetMap In iPhoto For iOS  Apple’s not gonna like this one, but news of the perpetual cat-and-mouse game between it and the hacking community continues with the announcement of an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1, which is now alive and kicking on the iPhone 4 . . . . → Read More: iPhone 4 named latest recipient of untethered iOS 5.1 jailbreak, exploit remains MIA  Oh yes, it’s a good time to go shopping for a smartphone, particularly if you’ve acquired a taste for an abundance of pixels and silicon cores. But which phones ought to be considered flagships worthy of comparison with the shiny new GS III? Yes, we’re including the Lumia 900 in this context, for the sake of platform neutrality and also in recognition of the fact that raw specs don’t count for everything — but we can’t overlook that this handset is sorely lacking in terms of ppi and some other areas. . . . → Read More: Samsung Galaxy S III vs. rival flagships: iPhone 4S, HTC One X, Lumia 900  Just in case June wasn’t busy enough for mobile app developers, between Apple’s WWDC and Google I/O , Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring. It’s scheduling a Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco for June 20th and 21st, just a week before Google’s meetup. . . . → Read More: Windows Phone Developer Summit coming June 20th, makes for one busy month  comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufacturer and mobile OS to beat. Samsung maintains its lead with 26% of the total mobile headset market share, up from 25.3% in Q4 2011. . . . → Read More: comScore’s Q1 2012 data shows that Samsung and Android are still sitting pretty  The March smartphone market share tally for the US is in from comScore, and it paints a familiar picture that’s rosy for Apple, Google and Samsung, but not so flush-cheeked for everyone else. Android is still tops and jumped almost four points to 51 percent of new American buyers. Apple’s still riding high after shipping 35.1 million iPhones , however, and moved up to 30.7 percent . . . → Read More: comScore: Android tips the 51% mark in US share, iPhone nips its heels with 31%  It’s taken a bit longer than we expected, but following Apple’s acquisition of app search engine Chomp, the Android option has now been cut out from its homepage. . . . → Read More: Apple spits out Android option from Chomp app navigator  We have always built and destroyed monopolies. . . . → Read More: The Decline Of Android Foretells The Rise Of A Total Apple Monopoly  The day after another monster set of earnings from Apple, the company is continuing the momentum. Today, Apple has announced the dates for its next Worldwide Developers Conference: June 11-15, held in its now-traditional venue, the Moscone West in San Francisco. . . . → Read More: Apple’s Next WWDC Dates Announced: June 11-15 [Update: It's Sold Out, Folks] |
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