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Apple Hits 1 Billion App Downloads The Apple App Store yesterday announced its one billionth application download and 35,000 available applications in nine months of business. http://www.wirelessweek.com//News-Apple-1Billion-App-Downloads-042409.aspx RIM back to crushing iPhone sales The advantage to offering a line of devices over a single model is that you hit a larger portion of the market. This has been RIM’s strategy vs. Apple’s, and over the last two quarters we’ve seenRIM outsell Apple by a decent margin. http://www.bbgeeks.com/news/blackberry-news-from-the-wire-for-the-week-of-4202009-882512/ T-Mobile USA sells a million G1s T-Mobile USA has sold more than 1 million of its Android-based G1 devices during the past six months, news that essentially sets the benchmark for Palm's Pre. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-usa-sells-million-g1s/2009-04-23?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&cmp-id=OTC-RSS-FW0 Nokia's CEO Outlines Vision for the Future "Nokia is fundamentally changing its business model to transform both the company and the industry. While we continue to compete with the traditional mobile device manufacturers, we also are dealing with new competitors entering the market from the PC and Internet industries," he said. http://www.cellular-news.com/story/37151.php?source=rss Internal AT&T memo calls Palm Pre inferior A day after both AT&T and Apple touted the success of the iPhone 3G as a key source of buoyancy in the economic recession, an internal AT&T memo has surfaced that seeks to discredit one of the iPhone's chief upcoming competitors, the Palm Pre. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/internal-t-memo-calls-palm-pre-inferior/2009-04-23?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&cmp-id=OTC-RSS-FW0 Handset Market Share Data The handset sales figures for November and December in the US were recently released, and a look at them reveals something telling for how one might (or might not) target content development. http://mobiforge.com/designing/blog/handset-market-share-data-why-it-matters A Netbook of Firsts - First to use Android, First with an ARM11 Processor, First <$20 Here is a netbook from Skytone (A Chinese company whose stated goal is to bring Internet-enabled terminals to the masses) that has achieved a few "firsts" in the netbook market. It should be noted though that this is a product announcement - the product is not yet shipping. http://www.abiresearch.com/Blog/Wireless_Blog/601
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