If you are not yet aware that your future is categorically tinted green, courtesy of Android, then you need to take the red pill dude. You cannot hide behind your iPhone any longer, either get balanced and have both devices, or be a chump and ignore the ever increasing market stats.

The reality is market wants choice and that is only a good thing for all. Monopolistic & forced control damages market creativity and stifles innovation.

In February 2012, Android Robot had 22.67% market share, followed by Opera with 21.7% and iPhone‘s Safari with 21.06% share.

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Finally some common sense, and something we can thank Steve Jobs for, by simply standing up and saying no…
Read on for more

The ‘Droid Star’ is a coming.

Despite Androids now 5.4% growth this quarter and now 42% dominance of the US smart phone market, (Apple 1% growth and 27% share of market) still many choose to remain deeply myopic in Europe and Australia to Androids viral growth.

Ignorance is ‘i-bliss’?

Even ignoring those childish and bitter mobile patent wars from Apple & Microsoft towards…well, just about every mobile manufacturer, you can see why these two behemoths are trying to stop Google every.which.way.they.can.

I think this is the droid were looking for…

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A great rant about the devil incarnate, iTunes. The blood sucking, soul destroying, worthless piece of corporate disney-fied, cack your limbered with using if you have an ‘i’ device. So nice to hear someone with even more venom for the turd of a program than me! : )

And especially worth reading just for

iTunes is a vicious bunny-boiling bitch, going proper mental if I so much as look at another device, let alone try to give it a bloody good syncing.

Read on… (thanx for share P!)

15,000 respondents x 6 continents = oodles of fascinating data!

• 78.6% use their web browser daily (I’m 100% - when possible {damn you Vodafone!}) 
• Males like to watch online videos (well derrrrrr) 
• 25-32 year olds use the phone as a map more than any other age group 
• 88% of those surveyed have a Wi-Fi enabled handset 
• South Americans love to share photos and videos 
• 18-24 year olds mostly ignore podcasts (really?) 
• Africans make more daily phone calls 
• 80% of females text daily 
• Europeans couldn’t be bothered with GPS or digital maps 
• Audio books are not very popular with people over 50 - but they love their RSS feeds 
• North Americans can’t get enough of music recognition programs 
• 80% of Oceanians use social networks - where making a call is the 5th most popular feature (!) 
• Asians love new apps and playing games 
• 33-41 year olds send / receive the most email messages (again, derrrrr) 
• It’s nice to know that lots of other smartphone users use their phone as a flashlight too!

Thank to my brother from another mother darth ambiguous for the share, who you should follow cos he’s rather swish.

mashable gets inside Google Music which is sadly USA only at present. Syncing to the cloud,a nd a clean no wires, no cables, no iTunes interface. So badly want this!

Just received my new issue of Wired and Apple PR must be ecstatic with the cover, entitled ‘1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?’.

It digs up more on the well reported issue of suicides at the iPhone Shenzhen production plant in China. Wired reproduce Joel Johnson’s excellent and pretty insightful piece from the mag fully here and well worth a read it is. If only to know the true cost of what we paid for…

One piece of bloated software I really dislike is iTunes. Like the child catcher from chitty-chitty bang bang, it lures in those less technically minded only to have things turn sour if you don’t drink all the iKool aid it offers.

All looks delicious and oh so very shiny, especially with your shiny new Apple iGadget. And it’ll stay that way, unless you decide to change your mind or move elsewhere or to a new, non-iDevice. Then, the Disneyfied walled garden you’ve been lured in to, suddenly is not so easy for average Joe or Joesphine punter to get out of…

As the computer guy to turn to for my family and some friends, I all too often am asked how to get music or movies out of, or play on, other devices or computers. Or to be able to get music or apps from the USA or access other services that iTunes all too often region locks you out of. I try to tell them how to do it, but frankly I think it’s designed to be far too complex, and I see them glaze over as I tell them how to hack it all, and they mostly all decide it’ll be simpler to just…not…bother. 

To me what it lacks is customer choice. It’s no longer your media your buying, it’s ‘their’ media and you’ll just have to suck it up princess. Didn’t you read that new (on mobile) 56 page terms and conditions when you installed? Your not having it easily, you’ll have it their way, or things will be very bad in iLand.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple make great customer products with some amazing user experiences, but iTunes, it’s pricing, and region locking always gets in the way.

An Apple physical product to me is like meeting a really, really hot girl. Like, wow. She’s awesome. ‘Hawtness’ personified! However, if you want to ‘interface’ with this girl in anyway shape or form, well…your gonna have to go through her rather large, and deeply unattractive ‘complex’ friend iTunes, every.single.time. Apple tries to tell us she has y’know ‘a great personality’…but I think even they would dump her if she wasn’t making them so rich.

Add in a fat 30% revenue for all apps bought straight to Apple (with that region lock fat on top) and you can see why they won’t change the iTunes filtered funnel in a hurry.Go on, have a glass of iKool aid, it’s shiny! So not a major surprise, it’s all about money. And this great article here, shows just how much your stung for your media, and overall why they want to region lock you in and keep you milked. I kinda say more power to them. If we are daft enough to buy it and put it up with it, (or care) they why should they change?

via macstories.net

The irony is when you think about it, all these things iTunes sells are virtual bits and bytes. So they really are the modern day Sex Pistols, as they have manged to achieve the great(est) rock and roll swindle there ever has been.