Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, iPhone

Paul Carton, Director of Research at ChangeWave Research, reported yesterday at investorplace.com that Apple iPhone is gaining steadily on BlackBerry's market share, a great feat considering BlackBerry's entrenched position in the business sector. iPhone market share is now a heady 30%, still behind BlackBerry's 40%, but RIM products are not gaining new users at nearly the same rate. As for Palm? Well, the Pre seems to have leveled out the free fall, but there's nothing terribly encouraging about the data. My guess is they are still pining for those halcyon days of 2006 when Palm was king.



The smartphone market itself is rising; according to Mr. Carton's research, a full 39% of consumers now own some kind of smartphone. Compare that with last summer, when the smartphone market was just cracking 25%.



The good news for Apple is that RIM's stranglehold on the smartphone market appears to be loosening, and with so many consumers still to reach, Apple has the momentum. CNNMoney.com characterized Apple's market gains as putting Apple within "striking distance" of BlackBerry. What's driving the momentum? Customer satisfaction. Among those who plan to buy a smartphone within the next 90 days, 36% plan to buy an iPhone. And among current users, fully 73% of them are satisfied with the device, compared with only 43% of BlackBerry users.



Mr. Carton notes that BlackBerry is planning product launches this year, and Apple has already released the 3GS. If Apple holds true to its history, we won't see a significant upgrade to the phone until next June. Either way, Apple has carved itself out quite a niche and the iPhone can no longer be dismissed as a toy to BlackBerry's business device.

TUAWApple iPhone closing in on BlackBerry market share originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Manca ancora del tempo al rilascio degli iPhone 4G ma c’è già chi si diletta a realizzare i nuovi concept.

E’ il caso di Isamu Sanada che vede il prossimo iPhone in perfetto stile iMac con schermo borderless e contrasto nero e alluminio. L’aspetto è molto compatto, sottile e ben marcato.

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ReelDirector, an app for the iPhone 3GS, improves the device's editing capabilities by allowing for transitions and text overlays.

Produttore: Toyota | Download Via: AppStore | Prezzo: Gratis

Prius Experience è un’applicazione gratuita prodotta da Toyota per promuovere la nuova automobile e solo per un periodo limitato ci permetterà di disegnare e visualizzare le nostre piccole opere in uno schermo gigante al centro di Times Square!

Tutto quello che dovremo fare sarà accedere alla sezione Draw e fare un disegno. E’ richiesto un albero ma ovviamente possiamo disegnare qualsiasi cosa. E’ necessario iniziare e finire l’opera senza staccare il dito dallo schermo e successivamente potremo inviarlo ai server Toyota per vederlo sullo schermo di Times Square tramite le WebCam disponibili su questo sito.

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Review

I won't make any excuses, and I won't beat around the bush: I'm addicted to Skee-Ball [iTunes link], at least to the very-entertaining iPhone version from Freeverse. In fact, the reason I haven't written about it until now is that every time I get ready, I decide a little more "research" is in order, and I find myself on another Skee-bender. It's getting ridiculous, annoying my friends and upsetting my home life. I'd like to say, "I can stop whenever I want to," but I keep coming back to the warm glow of the LED scoreboard and the comforting sounds of wooden balls racking up just for me.

What makes Skee-Ball so entertaining for me is the realism of the gameplay. It sends me right back to my childhood; carnivals, arcades and Chuck E. Cheese's. The physics of the game are bafflingly realistic, with each roll responding to every nuance of the stroke or swing that launches it. Velocity, top and side-spin, friction... even the effects of bouncing off of the sides of the ramp or the edges of the cups feels natural. The prizes you can purchase with the tickets are reminiscent of the "big scores" of my youth: vampire fangs, bubble gum, fake moustaches, and glitter pencils. There's the occasional oddball prize, too (a banana, a robotic dog, a duck), presumably to remind you that it is, after all, just a game.

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TUAWThe dark side of Skee-Ball for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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La OWLE Bublo iPhone Camera, dopo una lunga attesa, è finalmente disponibile al prezzo di 99.95$.

Si tratta di un accessorio per iPhone che migliora la resa delle foto scattate tramite dispositivo, grazie ad una lente 37mm wide-angle/macro.

Oltre a tale lente, abbiamo anche un microfono di posizione, e una luce LED per migliorare la resa delle foto al buio.

Altri accessori aggiuntivi per la OWLE Byblo saranno disponibili nei prossimi mesi.

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Ci è già capitato di vedere tante torte di compleanno a forma di iPhone ma quella che vi mostriamo di seguito è una torta da matrimonio realizzata ad opera d’arte.

E’ impressionante la cura per i dettagli partendo dalla scritta del carrier, arrivando anche alle viti sulla parte posteriore. Le varie icone rappresentano le nazionalità dei due sposi, l’evento e la lune di miele.

Filed under: Multimedia, Open Source, Snow Leopard

If you're rocking the Mac mini -- or any other Mac, for that matter --as a media center, then chances are pretty good that you've had some tough times following the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Anticipating such problems, some of us held off upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Now the wait is over.

Shortly after Elan discussed the details of a workaround for Plex, a new release has been let loose on the web. Plex 0.8.3 was announced earlier this week with improved Snow Leopard compatibility as well as several other fixes and new features. For users of Apple's latest OS, the biggest new feature is probably the integration of the Candelair driver which returns Plex to the days of Apple Remote compatibility.

Other notable improvements and new features include:

• Fixed an issue with MKV playback over the network
• A problem with the media server crashing has been fixed
• Video playlists work again
• A new feature where downmixing 5.1 surround audio to 2.0 stereo audio has multiple dynamic range compression options. In other words, surround audio will not be as "quiet" when played through headphones.
• New handling of quitting/suspending commands that includes a new scheduling feature.

The new release of Plex means I can finally stop holding my breath and upgrade my Mac mini to Snow Leopard. It is available now, for free (!!!) right here. Anybody else ready to upgrade to SL now that the Plex release is out? Once my mini is upgraded, rest assured that Plex will be the first thing I install.

[via Macworld]

TUAWPlex 0.8.3 brings on the Snow Leopard love fest originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In bringing the unibody treatment to the white MacBook, Apple has added many pro features while removing FireWire and the infrared port.

Vi abbiamo più volte parlato dei Video Mount di OWLE e finalmente ieri è stato rilasciato il primo. Si tratta del Bubo Camera Mount per iPhone e consiste in un accessorio per stabilizzare il dispositivo e che integra anche tante altre funzioni.

Troviamo infatti un microfono, un flash al led, ed una lente da 37mm perfetta anche per le macro. E’ un ottimo supporto per foto e video professionali ed è disponibile per 99,95$.

La stessa società ha inoltre annunciato l’arrivo di nuovi accessori entry-level in plastica con un costo sensibilmente più basso.

Via | iClarified