According to HTC CFO Cheng Hui-ming, the company is giving serious thought to developing its own mobile operating system
Palm Hu?
Huawei has largely rejected Palm’s request for a buyout, a tip said this morning. Palm had reportedly proposed that Huawei take over the company in mid-February but hasn’t made any progress since. It’s not clear what objections, if any, Huawei might have.
via Palm rebuffed by Huawei on takeover talks | Electronista.
Speaking of 90%+ market shares
Meanwhile, Apple’s market share in the portable media player (PMP) category was 92%, up from 87% in the study six months ago
via AppleInsider | Number of high school students planning to buy an iPhone doubles.
Does anybody remember iPod killers?
How about the iPhone killers?
No matter, it’s now time for the iPad killers.
95.7% of devices connecting to Boingo's airport Wi-Fi network are Apple devices
The iPhone represents nearly 90% of all non-laptop connections in Boingo’s airports. The iPad registered 5.4% of all device connections, while Android tallied 2.5%. Blackberry phones and iPod Touch MP3 players accounted for less than 2% each of total visits. Windows Mobile was less than 1%.
Remarkable statistics, through a narrow sampling. The above data represents all Wi-Fi enabled non-laptop devices in Boingo’s managed network, which includes 58 airports, the Washington State Ferries, and several sporting arenas and convention centers.
Opera Mini Approved for App Store
if you’re surprised that Apple accepted Opera Mini, you don’t understand what Apple is doing with the App Store.
via Daring Fireball Linked List: Opera Mini Approved for App Store.
Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?
“Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Device Data may not be provided or disclosed to a third party without Apple’s prior written consent. Accordingly, the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited.”
via Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.
Not to worry, Eric. Android revenues will make up for AdMob’s price tag.
Alice for the iPad
App download rate steady above 10 million per day
The App download rate increased to a record 10,753,000 per day during the last 90 days. This remains below the peak reported iTunes music rate of 12 million per day in the fall of 2009, but above the more recent rate of 8.5 million per day reported in March.
The download rates for iTunes are reported to have fallen as tiered pricing has been introduced while App download rates continue to increase.
Time to Download 4 Billion Apps: 21 months
Last week’s announcement of “well over” 4 billion apps downloaded came 21 months after the App Store opened on iTunes. To give a perspective on how fast that is, 4 billion songs took 41 months to sell on the iTunes Music Store.
The graph below shows the last actual data provided on both the App Store and the Music store downloads (circled) plotted from time of launch.
It also shows a curve-fit forecast of each store’s downloads. If the growth persists, 10 billion apps could be shifted in 28 months post launch, which is around November of this year.
New in iPhone OS 4: No more Google promotion
“Google” has been replaced next to the keyboard’s space bar with the word “Search.” Ouch.
via New in iPhone OS 4: The Full App-by-App Breakdown | iLounge Article.
