WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Your Eyes Lie
The printed T-shirt is back with a vengeance
Lots of things from the eighties have made an unwelcome return lately. Leg warmers, deely boppers, Rick Astley, and the economy heading for the toilet faster than last night’s chicken vindaloo.
One thing we’ve quite enjoyed seeing come back though, is the printed T-shirt. It was the height of [...]
Might Be Time to Retire the ‘Smartphone’ Category
Horace Dediu finds that “smartphones”, across the board, are no longer all growing in sales. Nokia’s and RIM’s are down, only Apple’s, Samsung’s, and HTC’s are up:
The fact that not all vendors benefit from a boom indicates that
the early, happy days are over. People are noticing that there is
a difference between smartphones and are not [...]
Samsung Stops Reporting Phone and Tablet Sales Data
Jordan Crook, AOL/TechCrunch:
Anybody notice something missing from Samsung’s Q2 results?
Hint: it was the phone/tablet sales data. But why? Well, according
to Samsung’s “new information policy”, phones and tablets
data will heretofore [sic] remain a secret. “As competition
intensifies, there are increased risks that the information we
provide may adversely affect our own business,” said Samsung’s
investor relations boss Robert Yi [...]
Macworld Benchmarks Core i7 MacBook Airs
Nice performance boost, particularly for the 11-inch model. But I’d like to know if it takes a hit on battery life.
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A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things
Harry McCracken:
For years, Apple has confounded the rest of us by not buying
things that it should clearly be buying. Not purchasing other
well-known companies is so core to Apple’s strategy that it must
have a whole department devoted to non-mergers and
un-acquisitions.
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ESPN Goals app to bring every strike from the Premier League
Free goal videos for all!
Today is a good day for football fans and particularly those who don’t like spending money. ESPN has revamped its Barclays Premier League goals app, ESPN Goals, in time for the 2011-12 football season, and the good news is that what formerly came on subscription is now completely free for anyone [...]
TripCase
My thanks to TripCase for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. TripCase is an iPhone app and web service for helping organize and manage travel plans. TripCase organizes all your travel information in one place, no matter where or how you booked. It monitors your trip and offers alerts for things like flight delays [...]
The iPhone’s First Full Quarter on Verizon
Jenna Wortham, reporting for the NYT last week:
On Friday, while reporting its quarterly earnings results, Verizon
said it activated 2.3 million iPhones during the company’s
second quarter. That is a hefty figure, because the device has
been available on Verizon for only a few months, but it paled in
comparison to AT&T’s iPhone activations for the same quarter. On
Thursday, [...]
Sandvine: Netflix Rising (PDF)
From a new market research report from Sandvine:
Assuming there are 81 million broadband-connected households in
the United States and 8 million in Canada, then Netflix’
reported numbers for March 2011 suggest roughly 28% market
penetration in the U.S. and 11% in Canada. Both of these
calculated market shares closely match what Sandvine observes on
networks in each country.
How are people [...]
Skating to Where the Puck Was
Darren Murph on the new Mac Mini:
I made crystal clear in my Mac mini review just how awful a
decision it was to nix the [optical drive] in the consumer version
of the machine, particularly with Apple making no efforts
whatsoever to shrink the chassis in the drive’s absence. My
primary beef is the removal of an optical drive [...]
