Apple iPhone 5 Overtakes Samsung Galaxy S3 to Become World’s Best-Selling Smartphone Model in Q4 2012

Strategy Analytics: (Via The Loop)

According to the latest research from our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, Apple’s iPhone 5 overtook Samsung’s Galaxy S3 to become the world’s best-selling smartphone model for the first time ever in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S together accounted for 1 in 5 of all smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 2012. This was an impressive performance, given the iPhone portfolio’s premium pricing. We estimate Samsung’s Galaxy S3 was the world’s third best-selling smartphone model and it shipped 15.4 million units globally, capturing 7 percent share in the fourth quarter of 2012. (Emphasis mine)

So yes, the iPhone 5 is a piece of crap that isn’t selling.

Massive Google Play Privacy Issue

Internet Hugbox

If you bought the app on Google Play (even if you cancelled the order) I have your email address, your suburb, and in many instances your full name. Each Google Play order is treated as a Google wallet transaction and as such software developers get all of the information (sans exact address) for an order of an app that they would get from the order of something physical.

I guess it’s true that Android is open…way open.

Via The Loop

No Apple TV event in march

Many Apple sites have been talking about a rumored Apple TV related event to be held in March. Jim Dalrymple of The Loop says “nope”. So that’s it, no event then.

Apple confirms T-Mobile getting products in 2013

Jim Dalrymple:

T-Mobile representative Michelle Taylerson reiterated to The Loop that the company would bring Apple products to the carrier in 2013. “Additional details will be made available at a later date,” she said.

There was no mention of which Apple products T-Mobile would carry.

Apple confirms T-Mobile getting products in 2013

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Black Friday at the Apple Store and the Microsoft Store, Via Loop Insight.

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Sam Sung. Via LoopInsight.

Japanese Android developers arrested for infecting 10 million users

The Hacker News:

Japanese police arrested five mobile applications developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications. According to The Metropolitan Police Department, Intial reports said that about 90,000 smartphones  users were infected with a virus lurking in applications they downloaded, But later they found that developers stole more than 10 million pieces of personal information from users mobile.

Open indeed. Via LoopInsight

Japanese Android developers arrested for infecting 10 million users

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The great Windows 8 Surface user experience. Loop Insight

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Forbes Bullshit

Jim Dalrymple:

I read a piece this morning by Ewan Spence at Forbes that just left me shaking my head in disbelief. Spence called the iPad mini “little more than a ‘me-too’ product” — I guess he forgot that Apple invented the modern tablet category and that every Google tablet is actually the “me too” product.

Spence made a point of saying that “in all of my time covering Apple launches,” alluding to his supposed expertise on the subject — all I can say is he couldn’t have been paying attention to Apple’s strategy over those launches.

What Apple is doing with the iPad is the exact same thing they did with the iPod. Release it and then come back and fill in the category with other products.

Oh and he also used the “this isn’t Steve Jobs Apple” line. Come on Ewan, at least be original.

There is really nothing to add, except that Steve Jobs also said they were not interested in making a phone, he said nobody wanted to watch video on an iPod, etc. Whatever he said they weren’t doing (except for Flash Player on iOS, that really never happened), was just that, something he said. Steve Jobs is not here anymore, get over it. He specifically told everyone at Apple not to ask themselves what he would do, they are doing what they think they have to do. If you don’t like it go buy something else, no one is forcing you to buy Apple stuff.

Forbes Bullshit

All of those can be answered by just one observation, what OS version are you running?

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