Cheers, subby^{bellding wanker}, you're a bloomin' Blijit.

oh, and one ot th skews had gone off the treadle.

I understood it up until "mazuma" but I'm guessing it's money.

/I guess reading Terry Pratchett helps

I think the author of that headline has been smoking skooma.

caught sayof?

MadMonk: I think the author of that headline has been smoking skooma.

...mmm, sweet skooma.

vudukungfu: Cheers, subbybellding wanker, you're a bloomin' Blijit.

oh, and one ot th skews had gone off the treadle.

So there's trouble at mill?

angry_scientist: caught sayof?

pricipal?

In case anyone is interested in TFA:

They're comparing the android market vs the app store since their inception. Apple got off to more of a head start, so this isn't a good comparison.

They're just talking about sales through the app stores, not ad revenue. Android has more ad-supported apps.

tfm_copycat: angry_scientist: caught sayof?

pricipal?

CNN Says yes

scraping_fetus_off_the_wheel: MadMonk: I think the author of that headline has been smoking skooma.

...mmm, sweet skooma.

Skyrim thread??

Why I'm chuffed to bits by this news.

She shat on a turtle.

redpanda2: In case anyone is interested in TFA:

They're comparing the android market vs the app store since their inception. Apple got off to more of a head start, so this isn't a good comparison.

They're just talking about sales through the app stores, not ad revenue. Android has more ad-supported apps.

I kind of wish people would stop altogether with the comparisons, except for maybe features. But install base, or app sales, etc, are all irrelevant. One is a software product available on dozens and dozens of devices, and one is a product available only on one manufacturer's devices.

There is no valid comparison to be done on a LOT of levels.

redpanda2: In case anyone is interested in TFA:

They're comparing the android market vs the app store since their inception. Apple got off to more of a head start, so this isn't a good comparison.

They're just talking about sales through the app stores, not ad revenue. Android has more ad-supported apps.

In the beginning it simply wasn't possible to pay for apps in the Android Market from a bunch of countries. This meant that various people who would not release an app for free (certain reference books, in my case) only released for iOS.

Honestly as it stands both iOS and Android have everything you really need built in that this point. After that the apps I have are:

1. Business stuff. Custom apps to access software we run, which I get for free as part of my company's enterprise contract with the vendor.
2. Widgets like a better flashlight app (it can make my LED lights pulse out morse code).
3. Amusement apps.
4. The app that rooted device and let me flash a custom ROM on.

The only one I'm really willing to pay money for is the last one. The widget apps aren't anything special and any CS kid can churn those out for his coursework and post them for free. No way you make money competing in that market. For amusement apps if you come up with something really awesome I might pay a few bucks. Odds are though I'm just going to watch Squidbillies on my phone when I take a shiat.

We'll see how much I know, but at some level I feel like mobile apps are kind of a bubble. Everyone is so enthralled with their cool new smartphone and wants to maximise the coolness of it. In another year or two we'll all be less enthralled with the six millionth version of Angry Birds and the market will shrink.

Only nonstandard app I use extensively these days is ShopSaavy. Plus the occasional round of RoboDefense if I'm tired of Squidbillies while I shiat.

Main paid apps I have on my devices are reference books and magazine/newspaper subscriptions. They are very much not free, but very much worth it, to the point that they're why I got a phone at all.

Mazuma... Play on a British company that you flog (Sell) your old "Dog and Bone" (Phone) too :: http://www.mazumamobile.com/

Known for their Fecking (Work that one out yourself) stupid Adverts on the old goggle box

ha-ha-guy:

Agreed. Most of the money I spend for things for my phone is on content--Mog, Netflix, NHL Gamecenter--and I wouldn't pay for those things if I couldn't also access them on my tv, computer, etc too. I'll occasionally pay for things that make the phone easier to use like a keyboard or a launcher or a better bluetooth toggle. I've paid money for a couple games, but I can usually find more entertaining things to do with myself than gaming on my phone.

I just stopped in to make sure subby is ok. I thought he might have been having a stroke.

redpanda2: ha-ha-guy:

Agreed. Most of the money I spend for things for my phone is on content--Mog, Netflix, NHL Gamecenter--and I wouldn't pay for those things if I couldn't also access them on my tv, computer, etc too. I'll occasionally pay for things that make the phone easier to use like a keyboard or a launcher or a better bluetooth toggle. I've paid money for a couple games, but I can usually find more entertaining things to do with myself than gaming on my phone.

Yeah the custom keyboards and usability is nice. I'm betting though the companies that are really good at improvements get gobbled up by Google, HTC, Samsung, etc. Each manufacturer is going to want to give their phone an edge. Like how Moto started making Swype standard at one point (at least on their high end phones).

I'm still kind of amazed no one gobbled up Beautiful Widgets yet.

What-ho, Squiffy. Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

/oblig
//it isn't the Brits' language anymore.

Marine1: What-ho, Squiffy. Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.


What the I don't even...

ShadowLAnCeR: Marine1: What-ho, Squiffy. Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.


What the I don't even...

It is part of a Monty Python sketch deliberately exaggerating WWI (or maybe WWII?) fighter pilot slang.

And then I Rogered her fanny with my John Thomas!

/it was lovely

ShadowLAnCeR: Marine1: What-ho, Squiffy. Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.


What the I don't even...

The correct response is...

Er, I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Squadron Leader.

This really chuffs my bloody chavs and knackers innit?

TOTALLY more mazuma. you know?

Rik must have worked as a headline writer a defunct show-biz trade rag.

Rik must have worked as a headline writer for a defunct show-biz trade rag.

MaidenUK: Mazuma... Play on a British company that you flog (Sell) your old "Dog and Bone" (Phone) too :: http://www.mazumamobile.com/

Known for their Fecking (Work that one out yourself) stupid Adverts on the old goggle box

paki gits the lot of em.