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iConfess: Why an Android fan recommends the iPhone

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You can call me an iSheep, iFan, iDan or whatever else you want, but when push comes to shove, 99% of consumers don’t care about rooting, ROMs or the concept of being “open.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min

Samsung’s Galaxy Note is the most useless phone I’ve used

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The phone is too big. You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you’ll be unhappy if you buy it. I really can’t get around this, unfortunately, because Samsung pushed things way too far this time.
Estimated reading time: 2 min

The Boy Genius Report: Apple’s billion dollar mobile payment magic trick

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It’s my guess that Apple isn’t simply going to use NFC as a tap and pay gimmick, but rather to become a payment processor. The intermediary in between a merchant and the credit card companies.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

Dear Microsoft: You’re doing it right

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And so Microsoft is doing what Google and its Android partners have not: Microsoft is building a unique experience.
Estimated reading time: 5 min

Apple to become most profitable company ever

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“In CY12, we believe Apple is poised to generate the highest annual net income of any publicly traded company ever,” White wrote. “On average, we estimate Apple’s net income in CY12 will be over 6x higher than the three tech companies on an individual basis (when at a $500 billion market cap) or 1.9x the aggregate profit of these three companies combined. When including all five companies, we estimate Apple’s net income in CY12 will be 4x higher than the average.”
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Canalys: Android apps are too expensive

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The company on Thursday released the results of a survey that found Android apps to cost two and a half times more than iPhone apps on average. The top paid-for Android apps were priced “dramatically higher” than those on iOS for the iPhone. “In the US, to purchase the top 100 paid-for apps in the Android Market would cost $374.37 – an average of $3.74 per app – more than 2.5 times the cost of the top 100 paid-for iPhone apps. The top 100 iPhone apps would cost $147.00, or $1.47 on average per app,”
Estimated reading time: 5 min

Windows 8: A ‘Christmas gift for someone you hate’

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“Suppose that you are an expert user of Windows NT/XP/Vista/7, an expert user of an iPad, and an expert user of an Android phone… you will have no idea how to use Windows 8,” Greenspun wrote.
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Chinese company uses leaked photos to copy, patent iPhone 5 design

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Memo to Samsung (005930): Now this is how you get away with copying Apple (AAPL)! GizChina reports that a Chinese manufacturer has used leaked photos of Apple’s next-generation iPhone to slap together a quick knockoff of the device called the Goophone I5 and release it before Apple has a chance to launch the genuine article later this month.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Woz goes to bat for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

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This is why it’s not too surprising that Wozniak has come out in support of Kim Dotcom
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Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps app with 3D mapping is coming this summer, and we have photos

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Apple has been working on an in-house mapping solution for a few years, and it appears as if the company is finally ready to release a new Maps app for iOS, sidestepping Google’s mapping data for its own. BGR has obtained exclusive information and photos of parts of Apple’s new Maps app from a trusted source, and the app features a refreshed user interface including a brand new navigation bar. This bar, we’re told, is silver instead of blue. Since the current Maps app follows the standard blue iOS color scheme, we think it’s possible Apple might shift toward a silver color theme in […]
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Microsoft exec says rampant cyber crime made his company fall behind on smartphones

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“We had a music player before the iPod,” he said. “We had a touch device before the iPad. And we were leading in the mobile phone space. So, it wasn’t for a lack of vision or technological foresight that we lost our leadership position.
Estimated reading time: 2 min