Apple’s Soaring Pile Of Cash (AAPL)
“On December 27th, 1996, Apple had $1.8 billion in cash and securities. Today it has $34 billion.”
(Via Silicon Alley Insider.)
November 12, 2009
November 9, 2009
How to Read AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Reports
How to Read AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Reports: “makes it so much more important for free apps to be utilizing effective marketing strategies to help them garner their share of that traffic in an increasingly competitive market environment.”
AdMob was purchased by Google today for $750m.
(Via The Appency Press.)
November 8, 2009
What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now
Bob Tedeschi writes about the iPhone as the Model T of the mobile te4chnology realm
“Today’s smartphones can do almost anything a PC could do in 2007, but in a couple of years smartphones may have enough computing power to enable much more sophisticated applications that truly take advantage of the device’s portability.”
“This idea, labeled ‘the third cloud’ by David P. Reed of MIT, underscores the most profound change for smartphones currently coming to the market — namely, that they need not communicate with the carrier at all.
‘Carriers used to control everything, and now the tables have utterly turned,’ Dr. Lippman said. ‘That’s what’ll make the future so interesting.’”
(Via New York Times.)
September 22, 2009
20 year comparison – Mac Portable and iPod Touch
1989 – Macintosh Portable
7,250g (16 pound)
10-inch (640 x 400) monochrome display
16 MHz Motorola CPU, 1MB RAM
40MB HDD, 3.5-inch floppy drive
2400 baud modem
$6,500 – $7,300 ($11-12,000 today)
2009 – iPod Touch
115g (4.05 oz)
3.5-inch (480 x 320) multi-touch display
600 MHz ARM CPU, 256MB RAM
32GB or 64GB flash drive
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
$299/$399 for 32/64GB
