[Macworld]

Post your comments for The Macalope Weekly: The bloom is off the rose here

[umbilicus]

Hey Dell: "A 10-inch version of the tablet, Streak 10 Pro, is currently offered in China, offering the ultimate digital divide between work and life" does not mean what I think you think it means. But you may have it right, after all.

[RipRagged]

It's obvious. If you take the aggregate total of all devices that run some version of Android shipped to resellers compared to the total number of iPhones sold to consumers, Android wins.

It's interesting to note, here, that winning means getting less money. Apple, which is losing, could buy all the winners and have money left over to get their consolation prize, second-place trophy engraved.

[PowerPC]

Looks from this article like RIM is in such trouble that its executives need therapy:

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...ecs-flight.html

[iPadRulezthe39netpwrq]

I'll admit I find it particularly disturbing if the Kindle Fire is eating into iPad sales considering the feature set and build quality are so far apart. Apple obviously refuses to build low-quality crap, so the Kindle Fire will certainly appeal to a lot of consumer trying to save a buck. I just doubt that consumers wanting an iPad would settle for a Kindle Fire.

[mrobertson]

Naughty Macalope:

"Further, because we know that about two thirds of Google's mobile ad revenue comes from the iPhone"

What the linked article actually says is that 2/3 of mobile search comes from the iPhones.

does SEARCH == AD REVENUE?

[Diesel50]

mrobertson, on 10 December 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

Naughty Macalope:

"Further, because we know that about two thirds of Google's mobile ad revenue comes from the iPhone"

What the linked article actually says is that 2/3 of mobile search comes from the iPhones.

does SEARCH == AD REVENUE?

Yes in fact it does. The more eyes google can put on websites that there search engine directs you to means that those sights use there ad engine and hense more revenue for them thru there ads. That is the main way google makes money and the main reason they make android and give it away for free to the vendors. To generate ad revenue based on web searches thru there engine.
Just to add something as well once you search with google they track what you look at and use and sell that info to there advertisers so that you get more ads put in your face that direct you to what you want to find. In short you are googles main product. They sell everything about you to there customers the advertisers. Android is just an extension of that business model to get you to use there ad engines to garner more info from you about you using android a mobile engine to do so.

Here is a good article: http://itmanagement....the-Product.htm

Just do a search about "Googles Business Model"

This post has been edited by Diesel50: 10 December 2011 - 08:53 AM

[WayneJ]

mrobertson, on 10 December 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

Naughty Macalope:

"Further, because we know that about two thirds of Google's mobile ad revenue comes from the iPhone"

What the linked article actually says is that 2/3 of mobile search comes from the iPhones.

does SEARCH == AD REVENUE?

"does SEARCH == AD REVENUE?"

Yes

[WayneJ]

Re: Apple advertising Siri while it is in beta.

As I understand it, Siri "learns" from interaction with its users. What's the quickest way to get more users for Siri? Advertising! So, Apple is only doing what makes sense. Selling something through advertising now so it will sell itself later through user experience. There appears to be no shortcut around this quandary.

[steviesteveo12]

Analysts always fascinate me. In economics and finance, and I imagine it's similar in IT, you get two broad groups of analysts. In the first group you get ones making bold claims about the future that news reports listen to and in the second group you get ones making very reasonable, rigorously researched claims about the future that people with money listen to.

I don't think I've ever read a news report featuring a quote from an IT analyst where I thought "yeah, that does sound like you spent all day researching that entirely credible number", despite there being many thousands of people specifically employed to research credible numbers about the future of the industry.

[aestival]

Perhaps 2.4 million Playbooks in the trash heap was enough to push a senior VP (sales?) into drunk & disorderly behaviour that would be more at home on COPS
Fired RIM execs 'chewed through restraints' on flight

[John]

RipRagged, on 10 December 2011 - 07:39 AM, said:

It's obvious. If you take the aggregate total of all devices that run some version of Android shipped to resellers compared to the total number of iPhones sold to consumers, Android wins.

It's interesting to note, here, that winning means getting less money. Apple, which is losing, could buy all the winners and have money left over to get their consolation prize, second-place trophy engraved.

When a tech writer touts Apple's profits, this is as appealing to me as Steve touting the wonders of inserting ads into apps. As far as I am concerned, Apple needs to turn a profit, but I would rather pay a bit less and I never want to see an ad. With Apple emerging as the top volume manufacturer, it's time for them to undercut the Windows world and to launch into a new switch campaign aimed at leveraging the iOS springboard.

[phdtop]

Well, the analyst got ONE thing right... as it pertains to me:

"The iPad is seeing competition from ... the MacBook Air."

I won an iPad 2 in a raffle and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. When I discovered that so-called "Keynote" on the iPad had almost no relationship, capability- and usability-wise, with Keynote on OS X, my #1 reason for wanting the iPad went down the drain. So there I was in the Apple Store, with staff going quietly frantic that OMG SOMEONE WANTS TO RETURN THE BRAND NEW IPAD 2 (they were very subtle about this but they did NOT want this to show up on their weekly sales report), when the 11-inch MacBook Air caught my eye. OMG, I thought, this is barely heavier than the iPad, and it runs the REAL Keynote just fine, and well I need a bigger screen and my old MacBook Pro is sooooooooooo heavvvvvvvvvvvy... Their carefully concealed concern that I was about to return their blockbuster hit disappeared when they realized that they could sell the Air and return the 'Pad ON THE SAME RECEIPT so it would show up not as a return but as an upgrade.

Whew!

I'm very pleased with my Air, but Keynote and the iPad as a presentation tool are, in my opinion, still in beta. Alpha, actually. Keynote on the iPad is an amazing thing, but it's not Keynote, and for me it's useless if I can't take my real Keynotes and JUST PLAY THEM ON THE 'PAD, C'MON NOW, IS THAT SO DIFFICULT TO ENGINEER???

Disclosure: I just bought a handful of AAPL shares. OMG they are EXTREMELY expensive...

[danmusician]

"'Faith' is a good choice of words here, as it implies adherence to a belief system rather than making decisions based on empirical evidence."

Some people of faith adhere to a belief system that is based on empirical evidence.