Posts Tagged ‘steve-jobs’

Jobs suggests that competitors’ device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds

Not satisfied to simply trump Google's daily device activation numbers , Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified "friends" have been counting handset upgrades in their statistical totals and not just newly activated phones. As you might imagine, Google was not terribly pleased at this turn of events, and issued the following retort: "The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services." Now, we don't honestly know who's telling the truth here and we'd like to be able to take both companies at their word, but this isn't the first time even during this particular Apple shindig that questionable claims were thrown out as fact.

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Lenovo’s Liu Chuanzhi: ‘we are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China’

We're guessing that Lenovo chairman Liu Chaunzhi didn't intend spark a slew of sensational headlines when he spoke briefly with the Financial Times this week, but he did make a few statements that are hard to ignore (yet easily misinterpreted).

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Samsung: iPhone 4′s retina display is nice, but it’s no AMOLED

Samsung seems to have taken exception to a little sidenote made by Steve Jobs during his iPhone 4 announcement at WWDC10 this Monday.

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iPhone 4: are you getting one?

Now that the dust is beginning to settle on Steve Jobs' WWDC10 keynote , we thought we'd ask the most pertinent question of all: who's buying this new hero mobile device from Apple? We know the company's loyal fan base will not disappoint, but what about you, undecided voter

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Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ‘started on a tablet’

Well, Steve Jobs just dropped a little nugget of history on us during his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the All Things D conference. When asked by Walt why they originally put their new OS on a phone and not a tablet, Steve said, "I'll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet." After working on the tablet OS which had a glass display and multitouch, another idea occurred to Jobs

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Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash

Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple's position on Flash, going back to his company's long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices.

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iPhone nabs 46 percent of Japanese smartphone market, the tiny Japanese smartphone market

So you read a headline like "iPhone grabs 46 percent of the Japanese smartphone market" and the first thing you're likely to think is, "wow, Apple is really doing well for itself." Well, it is and it isn't. While it has made some considerable gains in the smartphone market at the expense of phones like Sharp's W-ZERO3 and the Willcom 03 , it still hasn't gained nearly the same total mindshare or market share that it has over here. That's because "smartphones" as we know them are still a relatively small market in Japan, where carriers' lineups consist of a whole range of offerings including everything from mobile TV-equipped phones to true camera phones to perfume holders

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iPhone Savior: Is that Google's Android logo on this iPhone app?

Calling the art for this Alien Challenge ($1.99) jumping game a happy accident would take a gargantuan stretch of the imagination. There's just no way to gaze at the icon on my iPhone and not instantly think of Android . Looks...

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Fake Steve: The Issue With Android (Rebuttal) | Android Phone Fans

I'm not going to hide that we're Android enthusiasts and while we try to be as objective as possible, we certainly take more of a liking to Android than,

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: The trouble with Android, cont'd

Even passionate Google/ Android fanboy Michael Arrington has been forced to admit that Android is facing a really profound problem, ie not a problem related to execution, which could be fixed by, oh, I don't know, shooting a couple of ...

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