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Google and Apple To Compete Over Search Engine Marketshare, Maps and more…

Steven Finch — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:07:49 +0000

It has been rumoured that having Google as the default search engine on the iPhone earns Apple more than $100 million per year in a revenue sharing deal. A lot of sites have been talking about Apple developing their own search engine, while others have been reporting Bing will become the iPhone new default search engine. However, Google still seem to be the leader in this area, so unless Microsoft offer more than $100 million per year nothing will change.

In addition to being the search provider for Safari on the iPhone, Google also powers the native Maps application included with Apple’s handset. The source claimed that making Google Maps a provider for the initial iPhone in 2007 was a simple two-week process. But when GPS was added to the iPhone 3G, negotiations between the two technology giants allegedly lasted six months.

“Google wanted access to all sorts of data from the maps, but Apple didn’t want to give it up, according to this person,” the report said.

Last summer, Apple purchased Google Maps competitor Placebase. Later in the year, it sought to hire a full-time employee to take its iPhone Maps application “to the next level.”

Apple has also entered the mobile advertising business after its purchase of Quattro Wireless, believed to be worth $275 million, in December. Through the acquisition, Apple also named the former CEO of Quattro Wireless, Andy Miller, to a new position: vice president of Mobile Advertising.

Watch out Google, Apple could soon become a real competitor in the search engine space, while also moving into your current markets and revenue streams.

Motorola Releases The Motorola Devour: Google Android Powered Smartphone Supplied by Verizon

Steven Finch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:14:33 +0000

It has been reported in the last few days that the iPhone has been losing some of its smartphone marketshare, maybe the new Android powered phone from Motorola could impact this even further. Motorola is releasing their Motorola Devour.

Features:

Touchscreen display
Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Gtalk, YouTube, Google Maps (Basically everything Google!)

Well it looks like Motorola has another good mobile handset here and Verizon is more than willing to take it in to its fold. But wait, why drop the “Droid” branding? The Motorola DROID sort of put Motorola back into the smartphone map if only Google did not spoil it with the release of the Nexus One.

Is the Motorola Devour just a teaser of a better Motorola Android device to come? I’ll leave that to your wild imagination folks. In the meantime, in case you find this Android device interesting, Verizon is offering it through various plans such as Nationwide Talk plans for $39.99 monthly access, Nationwide Talk & Text plans at $59.99 monthly access and an unlimited data package access that will cost you $29.99 monthly.

Twitter Client Marketshare, Which Do You Use?

Steven Finch — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:45 +0000

TwitStat’s current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.

1 Web – 29.57%

2 TweetDeck – 10.58%

3 Twitterfeed – 5.54%

4 Twhirl – 4.92 %

5 Twitterrific – 3.79 %

6 Tweetie – 3.65%

7 Text – 3.40 %

8 Mobile web 3.00 %

9 TwitterFon – 2.96 %

10 TwitPic – 2.94 %

Firefox 3 Download Day Is Here and Where Is The Download?

Steven Finch — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:24:14 +0000

Today is Firefox 3 Download Day and it is past the launch time of 10am PDT and still no download to be available. Im sure there are thousand if not millions of people trying to get this download at exactly the same time, but come on they had months to prepare for this!

I think I am just going to have wait until tomorrow my time to get the download and actually review it for everyone here.