once again suggesting higher Web engagement from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users
I guess the cheaper devices running Android are given to kids to play offline games. Which kinda makes sense, as apparently some people don't want to hand over their iOS device to a kid since there is no multi-user support.
Aren't the majority of white box Android devices are sold in Asia as an inexpensive media player loaded with pirated content? Why would they ever use the those things to surf the web? They got a PC running a pirated copy of Windows for that.
Even low-end users surf the web and use email, so how can all those cheap Asian white-box tablets not be showing much online footprint? Even video and book content comes from the web. And it's not just about ads: other metrics show the same conundrum.
The Cubed podcast explained a pretty persuasive theory on this question: these super-cheap Android tablets selling in Asia are used primarily as viewers of pirated video content--the same way VideoCDs were once popular there. This content is installed by SD card or USB sticks which are sold (or get your own loaded up from a laptop) all over. No Internet connection needed to obtain content nor view it.
Essentially, a huge number of Android "tablets" may actually be Android in name only: they're just media players, using neither apps nor the web.
maybe this is not a case of which platform uses the mobile web browser more than the other, but a hint towards the reality that the reported Samsung smartphone "shipments" (not sales) are a crock of s$%& and Apple really holds the lion share of the market.
This study shows Apples significant leadership over Android, the Ad-OS of Googles Ad-Kingdom. No, I want to choose a device for money and not a cheap device that Google can steal data from.
Nowadays, Android phones are sold in place of dumb phones to customers who do not have data plans. I guess quite a bunch of Android phones will rarely if ever browse the net%u2026
Ha ha! The search for the missing Android devices is starting to sound like the search for the universe's missing mass. Wonder what will be found first, dark matter or dark androids?
According to fresh data from ad buying platform and mobile DSP Adfonic, Apple's iOS accounted for63 percent of all global impressions during quarter three, a three percent boost from the quarter previous.
Surprise.
I imagine the numbers will be even more heavily in Apple's favor when they roll out their real TV solution.
Ads + Freemium apps is where it is all at. Bit obviously if you can continue to have your cake an eat it, then those offshore stocks assets are snuggling up big time.
It%u2019s still amazing to find out that iPhone is still enjoying its lion share despite the herculean competition rendered by Android. The mobile ads in my opinion are placed well in Apple products and hence the clicks through rates (CTR) of ads are more owing to iPhone%u2019s beautiful user experience. Very soon we might just see the Android too catching up in pace to supersede iOS. But again the iPhone application development enthusiasts (http://www.techendeavour.com/iphone-application-development ) will be running ahead.
I disagree, the longer they take the more people will grow accustomed to using competing services.
That worked so well with smart phones and tablets. Oh wait, smart phones have been out for several years prior to the iPhone and tablets have been out for 10 years prior to the iPad.
That worked so well with smart phones and tablets. Oh wait, smart phones have been out for several years prior to the iPhone and tablets have been out for 10 years prior to the iPad.
The big difference being that with the iPhone Apple entered into a small smartphone market, and with the iPad a almost nonexistent tablet market, but the TV set market is saturated. Can Apple make a set so vastly superior to what already exists that people will replace their current TV with Apple's?
Can Apple make a set so vastly superior to what already exists that people will replace their current TV with Apple's?
Hell yes! The current way it works sucks so much I don't even bother turning the damn thing on anymore. I do watch an entire series after it has aired, but that is without all the hassle TV brings as it currently works, with commercials, set times etc.
Tim was right when he said he felt like going back 30 years in time when turning on the TV. This needs to be completely rethought. And looking at what Samsung, Google and others produce as products and services they will never be able to create it. I truly think only Apple can. They have the potential.
Hell yes! The current way it works sucks so much I don't even bother turning the damn thing on anymore. I do watch an entire series after it has aired, but that is without all the hassle TV brings as it currently works, with commercials, set times etc.
Tim was right when he said he felt like going back 30 years in time when turning on the TV. This needs to be completely rethought. And looking at what Samsung, Google and others produce as products and services they will never be able to create it. I truly think only Apple can. They have the potential.
Most of us rarely use the UI that comes on the TV. Once the cable box/media streamer/gaming console. is set up the most we hit on the original remote is the A/V and volume buttons. What good is a Apple TV if it's great UI is nullified by other devices?
Most of us rarely use the UI that comes on the TV. Once the cable box/media streamer/gaming console. is set up the most we hit on the original remote is the A/V and volume buttons. What good is a Apple TV if it's great UI is nullified by other devices?
Good point. Perhaps they don't need to create the whole set (with the panel) but 'just' expand on the current AppleTV box. But in my view the current 'shit experience' isn't limited to the technical side of it, it's also the way these channels work. I'd rather have a 'smart Vimeo' kind of setup: great content, on demand, with some sort of Siri / Spotlight / Smart folders integration.
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Walled gardens are only evil when Apple does it.
The standard apologist meme is "user-agent string"
Aren't the majority of white box Android devices are sold in Asia as an inexpensive media player loaded with pirated content? Why would they ever use the those things to surf the web? They got a PC running a pirated copy of Windows for that.
The Cubed podcast explained a pretty persuasive theory on this question: these super-cheap Android tablets selling in Asia are used primarily as viewers of pirated video content--the same way VideoCDs were once popular there. This content is installed by SD card or USB sticks which are sold (or get your own loaded up from a laptop) all over. No Internet connection needed to obtain content nor view it.
Essentially, a huge number of Android "tablets" may actually be Android in name only: they're just media players, using neither apps nor the web.
That could be a big part of the answer.
Purely based on personal observations I'd say that's true. Once the Android users get past puberty they'll improve hopefully.
billions and billions and billions of activations........of TV dongles
Surprise.
I imagine the numbers will be even more heavily in Apple's favor when they roll out their real TV solution.
I disagree, the longer they take the more people will grow accustomed to using competing services.
Ads + Freemium apps is where it is all at. Bit obviously if you can continue to have your cake an eat it, then those offshore stocks assets are snuggling up big time.
That worked so well with smart phones and tablets. Oh wait, smart phones have been out for several years prior to the iPhone and tablets have been out for 10 years prior to the iPad.
The big difference being that with the iPhone Apple entered into a small smartphone market, and with the iPad a almost nonexistent tablet market, but the TV set market is saturated. Can Apple make a set so vastly superior to what already exists that people will replace their current TV with Apple's?
Hell yes! The current way it works sucks so much I don't even bother turning the damn thing on anymore. I do watch an entire series after it has aired, but that is without all the hassle TV brings as it currently works, with commercials, set times etc.
Tim was right when he said he felt like going back 30 years in time when turning on the TV. This needs to be completely rethought. And looking at what Samsung, Google and others produce as products and services they will never be able to create it. I truly think only Apple can. They have the potential.
Most of us rarely use the UI that comes on the TV. Once the cable box/media streamer/gaming console. is set up the most we hit on the original remote is the A/V and volume buttons. What good is a Apple TV if it's great UI is nullified by other devices?
Good point. Perhaps they don't need to create the whole set (with the panel) but 'just' expand on the current AppleTV box. But in my view the current 'shit experience' isn't limited to the technical side of it, it's also the way these channels work. I'd rather have a 'smart Vimeo' kind of setup: great content, on demand, with some sort of Siri / Spotlight / Smart folders integration.