Terrific visualizations, and frag positive:
Originally Posted by Sam Posten /t/311159/the-downside-to-fragmentation/90#post_3934850
Here's the thing tho Man-Fai: the carriers don't have incentive to keep carrying dumbphones. Eventually everything will be IP based, maybe not this year or next but don't doubt that it will happen.
Bits is bits. And keeping ties to legacy tech is expensive.
Will there still be people who pine for non smartphones? Sure just as there are still people who want vinyl records or film based photography, but eventually the economies of scale will push the carriers to tell those people tough.
Peter Ha @ThePeterHa
Not a single game developer or publisher wants to talk to me about Android.
Originally Posted by Sam Posten /t/311159/the-downside-to-fragmentation/90#post_3944286
Take a look at this chart:
http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/02/rims-tailspin/
What's more important than RIM's tailspin on it?
Samsung is ON FIRE. And Horace didn't even mention it. Asked him to follow up and discuss that. That is impressive growth if true.
The whole article is worth reading even if you disagree with me, and him:Android is designed to be difficult to make money from, and the core issue is that it’s open - with the corrosive mentality that surrounds such openness.
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Piracy is a readily-fixable customer experience problem.
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Piracy happens because you’re fucking people (notably, via pricing).
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Piracy is your fault.
(by "you", he means developers)
As for Marco, how many Android apps has he made? 0 as far as we’re aware. He thinks it’s pointless, and would be a waste of his time. Would it? As someone who develops for both platforms, we’d like to delve a bit deeper here. This is for all the Marcos & Grubers of the world.
jeff rock via marcos twitterInstapaper for Android sales went up 600% the day the Nexus 7 arrived. It is already our most installed device (by far.)
In fact, the Nexus 7 may not just be an important new segment of the paid Android market, it may *be* the paid Android market.