-
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
“The desktop remains central to our everyday work and play, despite all the excitement around tablets, TV’s and phones. So it’s exciting for us to innovate in the desktop too, especially when we find ways to enhance the experience of both heavy “power” users and casual users at the same time. The desktop will be with us for a long time, and for those of us who spend hours every day using a wide diversity of applications, here is some very good news: 12.04 LTS will include the first step in a major new approach to application interfaces.”
-
Apple’s Profit Doubled on Holiday Customers Snapping Up iPhones – NYTimes.com
“With the 37 million iPhones that customers snapped up over the holidays, Apple has sold 183 million of the devices since the product went on sale in 2007. Underscoring the transformation of the company, revenue from the iPhone and iPad — neither of which could be bought five years ago — now accounts for 72 percent of Apple’s total revenue.”
-
Mobile App Developers Beginning to Favor Android Over iOS | Mobile Marketing Watch
“Based on the findings of Ovum’s second annual developer survey, the independent technology analyst reveals that Android looks set to replace Apple’s iOS in terms of importance to developers within the next 12 months. However, the report adds, “despite a clear vie for ultimate supremacy between these two platforms, almost all developers support both.””
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
