February 2012
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Watch$2m raised on Kickstarter in a few days for an indie game development project. Fascinating.
WatchDavid Remmick, editor of the New Yorker
Upgrades
Motorola announced the Droid Razr on the same day that the latest Nexus phone, the launch flagship for ICS, was launched. (For the uninitiated, ICS is the latest version of Android, released late last year).
Motorola currently does not know if the Droid Razr will be able to run ICS.
In case you’ve forgotten, Google is buying Motorola.
(Via The Verge)
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Platform wars, app stores and ecosystems
Experimenting a little with sharing slides: this is a presentation I’ve given at a few conferences on the ‘platform wars’.
The data is taken from a much more dense deck provided to clients of Enders Analysis - feel free to contact me for details.
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Does Android fragmentation matter to Google? Not...
Clearly, Android fragmentation affects users and developers. It makes it more expensive and less profitable to develop for Android, while users get inconsistent and unpredictable experiences and have access to fewer high-quality apps. Moreover Android devices may not even have Google services such as Maps or Gmail embedded on the device when a consumer buys it, while new versions of the software...
