General Smartphone comparision thread

[Thug541]

How does RIM not learn from Palm's mistakes?

[DBC]

Arrogance.

[Toruk Makto]

Arrogance.

What do they have to be arrogant about?

[DBC]

What do they have to be arrogant about?

Nothing anymore, but it was their arrogance and refusal to change and adopt to the new smart phone market that was their undoing.

[NeverSpoken]

A Facebook Phone: Ambitious Leap or Fatal Mistake? - Businessweek

Facebook becoming a cell phone company is not in their best interest. I think they're better off becoming another Skype and securing deals with PC manufactures to have their software pre-installed on new PCs.

[NeverSpoken]

The numbers behind RIM's impending collapse | Mobile - CNET News

bye bye RIM... LAWLZ.

But remember, a little company called Apple that in the late 90's.... screw that story, go ahead and put RIM down. I'm tired of seeing them limp along. And honestly, everything they've shown from BB10 has been meh. RIM needs to be blowing minds, not catching up.

[NeverSpoken]

It will be interesting to see what sort of impact this has on Google's marketshare when iOS6 hits.

Wall Street Journal confirms Apple dumping Google Maps - Neowin

Apple is planning to replace Google Maps as the default maps app in iOS with its own in-house technology, according to current and former Apple employees and reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal's report follows rumors that the change was impending.

The formerly symbiotic relationship - with Google's technology powering one of the integral features of Apple's smartphones, which in turn drove large amounts of traffic to Google's search engine - is about to come to an end later this year, and the official announcement could come as soon as next week at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

According to the Wall Street Journal's sources, who were not named, the plan to replace Google Maps in iOS has been in the works for years, and the plan was accelerated when shipments of Android smartphones began to overtake shipments of the iPhone.

Apple has bought at least three map companies with cutting edge technologies, starting in 2009 with PlaceBase, a company that created an API for combining various types of data and location information. In 2010, Apple bought Poly9, which specialized in mapping visualization technology. And in 2011, Apple acquired C3 Technologies, a company that developed automated 3D mapping algorithms and was in the process of building a database of 3D maps of the entire globe.

Data from Opus Research shows that an estimated 25% of the approximately $2.5 billion spent on mobile ads in 2012 will be spent on ads associated with maps or locations. The portion of locational ads in 2010 was only 10%, and the figure is expected to continue growing as the number of location-aware apps increases. The Wall Street Journal reports that more than 90% of iPhone owners use Google Maps, so the incentive to shift that userbase to an in-house solution is readily apparent.

[Thug541]

It will be interesting to see what sort of impact this has on Google's marketshare when iOS6 hits.

Wall Street Journal confirms Apple dumping Google Maps - Neowin

Apple is planning to replace Google Maps as the default maps app in iOS with its own in-house technology, according to current and former Apple employees and reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal's report follows rumors that the change was impending.

The formerly symbiotic relationship - with Google's technology powering one of the integral features of Apple's smartphones, which in turn drove large amounts of traffic to Google's search engine - is about to come to an end later this year, and the official announcement could come as soon as next week at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

According to the Wall Street Journal's sources, who were not named, the plan to replace Google Maps in iOS has been in the works for years, and the plan was accelerated when shipments of Android smartphones began to overtake shipments of the iPhone.

Apple has bought at least three map companies with cutting edge technologies, starting in 2009 with PlaceBase, a company that created an API for combining various types of data and location information. In 2010, Apple bought Poly9, which specialized in mapping visualization technology. And in 2011, Apple acquired C3 Technologies, a company that developed automated 3D mapping algorithms and was in the process of building a database of 3D maps of the entire globe.

Data from Opus Research shows that an estimated 25% of the approximately $2.5 billion spent on mobile ads in 2012 will be spent on ads associated with maps or locations. The portion of locational ads in 2010 was only 10%, and the figure is expected to continue growing as the number of location-aware apps increases. The Wall Street Journal reports that more than 90% of iPhone owners use Google Maps, so the incentive to shift that userbase to an in-house solution is readily apparent.

Google makes a iOS maps app and I think many people would want to keep it

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[NeverSpoken]

Samsung planning Facebook-like social network, codenamed 'Samsung Facebook' | The Verge

Samsung is planning its own Facebook-like service to debut early next year. The Korea Times cites a Samsung official who says the company hopes to launch its social networking service to compete with Facebook, available on a variety of internet-enabled devices — including cameras, televisions and Blu-ray players. The publication says Samsung's internal name for its project is "Samsung Facebook."

Samsung's social network is believed to built on top of Amazon's cloud computing platform, and a company official confirmed to The Korea Times that the new service "will become available in the first quarter of next year at the earliest," adding that the goal is to expand Samsung's "social media service across different devices from different companies across different mobile platforms."

[DBC]

Analyst sees RIM losing 90 percent of workers | Mobile - CNET News

My how the mighty have fallen.