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iPhone 3G does not capture 17 percent of the US market for cell phones

It’s interesting to me how people contort Apple market share figures to make them look better than they really are. If Apple’s market share of, say, the PC industry isn’t high enough, we’ll just use the US figures without mentioning that’s what happening. Still not high enough? We’ll use a nebulous and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-07-2008
The Cell Phone Wars

Slate has an interesting comparison of Apple’s very closed model with the iPhone and Google’s very open model with Android: In the two months since the App Store's launch, Apple has rejected several programs for seemingly arbitrary reasons that it won't disclose. Developers havegrumbled about...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-26-2008
NuevaSync: OTA iPhone/Google Sync

I wasted a silly amount of time today trying to get Windows Live Contacts/Calendar to sync with MobileMe (and the iPhone) via Outlook and the new Outlook Connector 12.1 beta. (Long story short: While you can, in fact, make your Windows Live data store the default in Outlook via Account Settings, Apple...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-03-2008
Windows Mobile update

So I wrote a little news story today noting that Microsoft missed its target of selling 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in its fiscal year 2008, which ended June 30. Here’s the company’s take on this news: We are excited to announce that Windows Mobile had yet another year of high growth, closing...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2008
Microsoft tries to throw some cold water on iPhone

Computerworld has some interesting information about Windows Mobile vs. Apple's iPhone: Companies -- lots of them -- are still buying Windows Mobile smart phones, and Microsoft doesn't want to let iPhone mania make them forget. During Microsoft's most recent fiscal year, 325 enterprises purchased...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-21-2008
Windows Mobile Apps

Microsoft EMEA tries to prove that Windows Mobile doesn't come up short against the iPhone and the iPhone Application Store but really just ends up proving that Microsoft can't do anything on the Web these days without first promoting Silverlight. Sorry, but the Windows Mobile Apps site just...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-17-2008
Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

Nice to see someone else going after the mainstream media for unfairly blaming Microsoft for something, in this case—get this—the iPhone 3G's poor battery life. Head's up, guys. Push kills battery life, no matter where the service comes from. Gary Krakow has gone insane . I was going to...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-15-2008
Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone

The Windows Vista Blog is promoting (a new release of?) Windows Live for Windows Mobile: Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-14-2008
Smart phone numbers

In an article about Microsoft's smart phone hopes and dreams, some interesting numbers are revealed: Around 118 million smartphones were sold last year, according to market researcher Canalys. Symbian captured 67 percent of the OS market. Microsoft came in second at 13 percent. RIM [in third place...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-13-2008
What's the deal with Windows Mobile?

Watching Microsoft twist in the wind as the iPhone steals its thunder in the smart phone market is interesting and, I think, instructive. As was the case with the digital media market, where Apple swept in with its iPod devices and iTunes software, Microsoft has an established presence in this market...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-02-2008

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