Still explosive growth from Android which looks like eventually settling in to a decent balance and fair choice for consumers.

Like an ever growing bad meme, Facebook bought tagtile last week, which got buried under Instagram-gate…
Very interesting, but can see facebook ditching the meatspace tile cube in stores quickly.

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Great article from a few months ago in the Guardian with an iMyopic image but some some good links and a quote I love;

Don’t get bogged down in the large strategy development surrounding digital - consider short term solutions and wins too

Too true, sometimes there are too many stakeholders, bureaucracy and time delays in all businesses and before you know it, your killer idea can be put through a mangle and turn out well…mangled.

Cheers to the very talented @jsnip for the heads up!

Nice overview of Instagram’s brief history up till it became facegram : )

Well not quite but a sizeable chunk have it seems many are not too happy about ‘farcebook’ spending (in best Dr. Evil I can) 1 Billion dollars to buy out the oh so cool polaroid stylee app.

The same whiners who in droves complained bitterly about Android stealing their cool and who were desperate to keep it elite (if you call it that and many did).

Still hipsters aside, bloody well done for Kevin Systrom and his small team at Instagram who now no longer need to worry where the next cheque is coming from.

So what happens to the app? Cynically we could have pokes, farmville and privacy options becoming hidden and cryptic, but Zuckerberg says nothing for now.

Why? To preserve Instagrams cool status, but is too late? Could it be like Yahoo was to the then oh so cool flickr, which is barley luke warm at best?

Time will tell but expect deeper integration with facebook and it’s main mobile app quicker than you can sell your stock on farmville or poke your pal. 1 billion dollars spent needs return on investment.

Some excellent social features captured here in this app called Pair that incorporates very similar elements to the pretty good app at Path.com.

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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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Well, without saying I told you so, Android continues to grow, and develop at a rapid pace.
As said before I use multiple devices on multiple platforms, so no iHating (well only really towards iTunes) but balance and choice are incredibly vital to growth.

All to often in all walks of life, when absolute power is given to one, it corrupts and skews development for others.

Android commanded 48 per cent of the market compared to Apple’s 43 per cent, according to NPD.

This news vis the Sydney Morning Herald is ushering in a new age of development, choice and innovation and is a major win for us all.

Told you so : P

Android handsets now account for 30% of Australian smart phone sales to iPhone’s 40%. (IDC survey) So the divide is becoming less and less, and competition is a very good thing for consumers and customers. The screen shot above shows the dual options business are now taking as having iPhone only options, is beginning to offer a kind of ‘older generation/not quite getting the mobile space’ attitude.

Still, as I posted the other day, many businesses will choose to be i-Myopic for some time, but glad to see ‘choice’ finally becoming statistically a major factor.

Choice being a point I’ve stood firm on personally from my own preference, ( I see iTunes as a giant venus fly trap for consumers) but for some time also from a commercial perspective I wanted to ensure RMIT’s brand was not able not fall in to the Apple only trap. (Or any other sole mobile vendor for that matter)

I wrote back in Aug 2009;

RMIT is keen to offer an experience that’s open to all, and not locked in to just one platform, device or provider.

Choice never goes out of fashion, and it still holds true today. So nice to see this article on the future of mobile being multi-platform which warms my mobile heart.

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…

Read the com score report

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.