2013-12-14

iPhones Dominate Sales at All Four Major U.S. Carriers - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD

iPhones Dominate Sales at All Four Major U.S. Carriers - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD - Prior to the launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c, the iPhone 5 was Apple’s sole Top 3 entrant at the big four carriers, and it held the top spot at AT&T alone; it was the second-most-popular handset at Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile, where Samsung’s Galaxy S4 led the pack.


Still, that's a lot of Galaxy there.

Anonymous Internet Poster - Android Apps on Google Play

I was starting to get tired of watching crappy Instagram clones consisting of 5 composited layers of pre-rendered textures and copious amounts of gratuitous UI/UX chrome get featured in the iOS App Store. So I hunkered down with the new Android Studio. I was pleasantly amused at how easy this was:
Anonymous Internet Poster - Android Apps on Google Play

AnonymousPoster

And for reference, here's the iOS App:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anonymous-internet-poster/id586164292

The great thing was that it ran on Katie's Gingerbread phone without any testing whatsoever. For testing, I have a turkey Android tablet that I got on Black Friday for about the cost of a lightning cable. Which says a lot.

Apple pulls another anti-censorship app from China's iOS App Store


Apple pulls another anti-censorship app from China's iOS App Store - The app, called FreeWeibo, bypasses government restrictions on the Twitter-like Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo and was pulled from the App Store on Friday, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.


I'm fascinated by the situation in China, which is fast becoming a major factor in geopolitics using a unique system of government. It's just unfortunate that it has to be at the expense of the Tibetan people.