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John Kirk explains why the church of market share, which is observed almost religiously by many, is a deeply flawed argument. Yes, more market share means the product is more visible, it means there are more consumers of said product but unless it’s viewed in relation to revenue and profits, it’s never going to make sense (or cents). Business wise, it’s necessary for companies to look at the health and efficiency of a business in terms of how much return it earns per output. If a group of companies only earn a small fraction of the profit generated by the entire industry, dwarfed by the profit of just one other company within that industry, they need to conduct a serious evaluation of their strategies.
Indonesians just love to chat
the Google – Facebook war is sure to be more vicious than the Google – Apple war because Google and Facebook have the same customers: advertisers. Users are their currency, and Facebook is about to rob the bank.
Google officially announced Keep yesterday through a blog post. Keep is Google’s note-taking app that was briefly revealed earlier this week. The Android app lets you store text, links, audio notes, images, and check lists and have it synchronized with Google Drive. You can make entries on the web or on the app. Google plans to roll out this ability directly on Drive as well. No official word yet on whether this will be available for iOS although just about all of Google’s mobile apps can be found on the App Store
Interestingly, Google had previously released a similar tool called Google Notebook for desktop browsers but it was shut down in July 2012.
Samsung launched the Galaxy Note Mini
During our research, a few consistent patterns emerged:
- Most people don’t differentiate between apps and widgets.
- Widgets aren’t widely used – weather, clock and music are the most used and after that, fewer than 10% of customers use any other widgets.
- Most of you don’t modify your home screens much. In fact, after the first month of use, approximately 80% of you don’t change your home screens any more.
so they decided to turn the entire Android home screen interface into Flipboard, complete with news sources, bypassing Flipboard entirely.
Google just updated its distribution of Android OS and it reveals that a month into 2013, the majority of active Android devices out there are still running 2.x. Adding 1.x versions push it to 56% of devices not running the latest release. On the previous report, recorded over the last two weeks of December 2012, the 2.x variants still reached more than 60% of devices. It’s encouraging to see that the 4.x variants have finally grabbed more than 40% of active devices.
North American consumer satisfaction on smartphones is declining.
Data gathered from SplatF, Business Insider, and Macworld.
The push to get Android devices on board with the latest version of Android is never a pretty one. The fact that there’s a “middleman” complicates things and pushes updates far along the timeline that it often leads people to not bother. Samsung’s plan to deliver jelly Bean to the Galaxy S II requires owners to update through KIES but not over the air. Which brings the question, what then is the point of releasing Galaxy S II Plus?
On the same day that LG officially launches Nexus 4 in Indonesia in Jakarta at Grand Indonesia shopping center, Nokia holds a Lumia Experience Day across town at Central Park Mall. Unfortunately not enough people took photos at the Nexus 4 launch. People at the Nokia event look much more enthusiastic.
