Adobe announced this week that it would no longer be developing a Flash plugin for mobile browsers, prompting comments that Steve Jobs has had the last laugh. After all, the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Jobs was highly critical of its reliability, security and performance. Jobs’ essay, ‘Thoughts on Flash’ is well worth [...]
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Here at Juniper Research, we often get asked whether we track POS (Point of Sale) systems. The reason we get asked is that POS systems are the “other side” of a user’s mobile payment transaction. We always answer “No” because, as a mobile-focused analyst house, we have quite strict definitions of what is “mobile” and [...]
Take nothing away from Samsung: with a 219% year-on-year shipment growth and higher volumes than any other vendor for the first time, the Korean giant can take a moment to celebrate being number one in the smartphone market. Apple will tell you though: this is only one quarter (and the quarter before a new iPhone [...]
Just over a year ago, Apple was awarded a trademark for the phrase, “There’s an app for that.” The idea behind the phrase was to convey that, for almost any functionality you could think of, there was a probably a mobile app already developed, ready and waiting to deliver just what you were thinking. All [...]
The news last week that Apple will not equip the iPhone 4GS with NFC was a disappointment to some as take-up by iPhone users would have been a great stimulus for the market. Despite the number of “other” smartphones announced with NFC (and that appears to be an increasing number by the week) the iPhone [...]
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