The Great Game Category Archives
дележ добычи
15 August 2013 | Apple, Google, Software, The Great Game | No Comments
так же, с бюджетным iPhone 5C пересекается еще и другой сюжет:
As much as Apple will benefit from getting new customers with an entry level iPhone that benefits their ecosystem so will Google. We know Google makes more on iOS than Android and interestingly an entry level iPhone will likely help Google’s bottom line as well. When you dig through the numbers on how profitable iOS is to Google’s search revenue, Google may be the biggest cheer leader for a lower-cost iPhone.
что, интересно, думают в Apple по этому поводу? и какой поисковик будет установлен в этот раз?
making sense of data
23 May 2013 | Amazon, Apple, Google, Hardware, Software, The Great Game | No Comments
основные тенденции и цифры, озвученные Бенедиктом Эвансом, — больше всего мне понравились 17 и 18 слайды, это очень… вдохновляюще.
via.
алкоголизм — не шутка
21 May 2013 | Internet, Software, The Great Game | No Comments
Yahoo has redesigned its Flickr photo-sharing service, offering users up to 1TB of storage without a fee.
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Those wishing to have an advert-free interface now face a $49.99 (£33) annual charge – double what they needed to pay before.
а похож Flickr стал, да, на Tumblr.
это вам не очки
24 January 2013 | Amazon, Apple, Economics, Google, Technology, The Great Game | 1 Comment
Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, voice commands and “Explore by Touch.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
т.е., занимаются разработкой новых интерфейсов — например, голосовых. а там и очередной виток битвы за нашу гостинную комнату начнется — ведь не клавиатуру же, право слово, к телевизору подключать[1]?
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к слову:
Tim Cook: In terms of the product that we sell today, Apple TV, we sold more last quarter than we’ve ever sold before, eclipsing 2 million during the quarter. It was up almost 60 percent year-on-year, and so there’s actually very good growth in that product. What was a small niche at one time of people that loved it is a much larger number that love it.
where the truth lies
19 January 2013 | Amazon, Apple, Media, The Great Game | 1 Comment
как и следовало ожидать, Amazon целит не в планшеты, а значительно выше:
Amazon is launching an HTML MP3 web store that’s made for Apple devices: the iPhone and iPod touch. It will also run smoothly on the iPhone’s default browser, Safari.
Amazon’s store will offer 22 million songs. When a purchase is made, it will be transferred to an Amazon Cloud Player account, and accessible via desktop, mobile apps, and Kindle Fire.
очевидно же, из всей этой армии соревнующихся с Apple компаний, Джефф Безос возглявляет единственную, где действительно есть потенциал.
за покупателя
25 December 2012 | Amazon, Economics, Google, The Great Game | 1 Comment
или вот другое ключевое противостояние:
Research firm Forrester reported that 30 percent of U.S. online shoppers in the third quarter began researching their purchase on Amazon.com, compared with 13 percent who started on a search engine such as Google – a reversal from two years earlier when search engines were more popular starting points.
Amazon now sells ads that show up to the side of product search results on its website. There were 6.7 billion display ad impressions on Amazon.com in the third quarter, more than triple the number in the same period of 2011, according to comScore.
за неполный год акции Amazon выросли на 50 процентов, акции Google — на 10. 2013 обещает быть интересным, не так ли?
slap in the face
8 September 2012 | Amazon, Google, The Great Game | 1 Comment
вот и случилось:
Microsoft’s Bing will be the default search provider on the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets.
Bing will replace Google, which was the default provider on the original Kindle Fire.
I told you so, I told you so.
потому что гладиолус
6 July 2012 | Apple, Culturology, Personal, Software, The Great Game | 1 Comment
в целом же, говоря о неком противостоянии Apple и других разработчиков и производителей, меня, видимо, интересуют в первую очередь именно экономические аспекты (ну, и разве что всегда приятно увидеть очередную иллюстрацию чудесного фразеологизма “без царя в голове”). иными словами, пусть расцветают сто цветов, конечно же, и пусть каждый из нас выбирает то, что удобно ей или ему лично.
вот только мировозрение[1] иных не перестает меня удивлять.
пойду искупаюсь, впрочем.
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[1] — если и в самом деле о программном обеспечении, то, да, виджеты в том виде, в котором они реализованы в Android, мне действительно не нужны. другой вопрос, что Notification Center в iOS мог бы быть несколько разносторонней, но это тоже не самая критичная функция. про файлы же я ничего сказать не могу, поскольку с таким образом хранения информации фактически не сталкиваюсь (и, видимо, не понимаю, что теряю). собственно, поэтому и нужды в “папках на рабочем столе” тоже не испытываю (вообще, в любом случае управлением данными должен знаиматься компьютер, а не человек — в том числе, конечно, и распределять “файлы” по “папкам”).
Michael, we’re bigger than U.S. Steel
12 June 2012 | Apple, Facebook, Google, The Great Game | No Comments
итак, Apple выпустила собственные карты и систему навигации, а так же поставила на Facebook:
iOS 6 offers the “tap to post” option directly from iOS 6, and sharing from Photos, Safari, Maps and other applications. Apple has also added Facebook messages to its address book and Facebook events to its calendar app. Across mobile and desktop, the App Store now includes Like buttons so users can see which apps, music, movies and shows their friends Like. Game Center will import friends from Facebook, though it’s unclear whether Game Center Challenges will work for cross-platform Facebook-mobile games.
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[О]n OSX Mountain Lion <...> Facebook sharing will be supported in Safari, Notes, PhotoBooth and iPhoto, according to Apple’s website. OS X also adds users’ Facebook friends and profile photos to Contacts. Facebook notifications show up in Notification Center, and users can update their status from there.
The integration that will come with this fall’s release of iOS 6 will deliver boat-loads of content to Facebook that will draw people to its news feed that it monetizes with ads. Data about App Store Likes will also be lucrative for powering ad targeting. As I detailed yesterday, since iOS apps are now Open Graph objects with Like buttons, people who’ve Liked them can be targeted with ads. Developers may be willing to pay high premiums to target ads to users of similar apps or ones by their competitors.
Apple meanwhile gets a more seamless user experience where people don’t have to do tons of copying, app switching, and pasting to share with friends. It will also rake in sales from referral traffic driven by stories linking to iTunes and the App Store.
кроме того, Facebook, полагаю, не прийдется делать свой телефон — зачем, если доступен самый популярный. где, к тому же, еще и хранятся миллионы наших кредиток в запасниках iTunes Store.
звучит тревожно, не правда ли?
как бы там ни было, однако главная мысль этой презентации направлена в иную сторону: Apple сделает все, что только можно, воеже лишить Google пользовательских данных и забрать, тем самым, рекламные доходы — реклама суть нефть интернета, за нее они и будут драться. сегодня это карты и плевок в сторону Google+, а завтра?
на своих двоих
28 May 2012 | Facebook, The Great Game | No Comments
Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook.
The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.
плюс, так же и бразуер:
A Facebook browser that would allow you keep up to date with your social life from in-built plug-ins and features on the menu bar could be on the cards. Pocket-lint has heard from one of its trusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser.
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The move – which would no doubt send shivers of panic through Google – although unlikely to affect Chrome’s continued growth in the short term, would see the two tech giants battle it out on your desktop and mobile for web surfing as well as social networking.
который, в том числе, и мобильный браузер, заметьте.