ComScore’s January numbers are out today and they have Google (and everyone else) losing ground to Apple. Android dropped to 52.3% from 53.6 percent of US Smartphone subscribers while Apple climbed 3.5 points to 37.8%. Both OS’s are now over 90% of the base.
DOOMED.
Makes sense, a smaller iPad would be a better e-reader.
iTunes leaks mention of iBooks 3.0 ahead of next week’s Apple media event
9 to 5 Mac:
In what shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, it looks like T-Mobile won’t be carrying Apple’s next-generation iPhone. In a memo to employees, leaked by TmoNews, T-Mobile is encouraging its retail staff to begin “selling against the iPhone” on September 21st. Of course, September 21st is the rumored launch date for the latest handset out of Cupertino. T-Mobile is probably just making an assumption, rather than having inside knowledge — but you never know.
Good luck.
Mercury News:
The deceased Apple co-founder’s home on the 2100 block of Waverley Street in Palo Alto was burglarized July 17, said Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Tom Flattery, a member of the high-technology crimes unit…More than $60,000 worth of “computers and personal items” were allegedly stolen, but Flattery declined to say whether they belonged to Jobs, who died last year at the age of 56, or another family member.
More than $60,000 worth of “computers and personal items” stolen from Steve Jobs home
Okay, if this thing it’s not real, it’s a freaking great hoax.
Photos of purported next-generation iPhone’s smaller dock port surface
They already identified the problem and released a temporary fix, while they solve it completely.
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According to 9to5Mac (you can go there and see more images and a “report”), this is the back side of the next iPhone.
My problem with it is that it’s a two tone iPhone, meaning it has two colors. This is from the same company that could not release an iPhone after almost a year for problems with a white color paint for the glass. The same company from where a Google executive received a call from Steve Jobs one sunday, because the yellow gradient on the font of a Google app wasn’t yellow enough. I may be wrong (wouldn’t be the first nor the last time), but it just doesn’t feel like Apple to do something like this. Time will tell.
According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.
Ok, so I don’t like talking about rumors, because most are just made up crap, but this one seems really plausible. First, Apple has been acquiring mapping technology companies for a while. Second, we know that Apple and Google are not really friendly anymore, and Apple is already using Open Street Maps for their iPhoto for iOS app, instead of Google Maps. Also, if it looks like the video, hell yeah I want that!
