Apple’s next iPhone will be powered by the new iOS 7 interface styled by
Jony Ive, but fewer people will see it if it doesn’t come with a similarly
restyled iPhone 6. The tech industry is abuzz with what Ive, the longtime Apple
hardware designer who crafted the the iPhone 5 among all of the company’s other
gadgets over the past decade-plus, will do now that he’s been placed in charge
of designing the software interfaces of those devices for the first time. But if
that new iOS 7 interface arrives on the same old looking hardware a la the
iPhone 5S, plenty of customers will opt to skip it until the iPhone 6 does
arrive.
An iPhone 6 will vastly outsell an iPhone 5S based on changed outer styling
alone, thanks to the shallowness of consumers who are just as likely to make a
smartphone buying decision on being “tired” of a certain look that’s been around
for a year, which often has them making vital smartphone purchases based on the
same superficial criteria as they’d use when buying a new outfit. The iPhone 5S
can arrive with all the improved specs and features that an iPhone 6 would have
offered, along with bigger screen sizes, better cameras, faster everything,
totally redesigned on-screen interface and it still won’t matter. An iPhone 5S
will sell well, and set sales records (we saw that already with the iPhone 4S),
but it won’t give Apple the unquestionably dominant position in smartphones
which it wants. Only an iPhone 6, both because its name suggests newness and
because its changed outer styling wreaks of freshness, can connect on that
level.
So while Ive continues to work on his iOS 7 system software which
fundamentally changes the nature of the iPhone experience in a way Apple has
never before attempted, he might want to ping his boss with the idea of
bypassing the iPhone 5S and moving directly to whatever he’s designed to be the
iPhone 6. His former boss once said that real artists ship, and his artistry
will be seen be far more people if it ships on restyled hardware.
2013年5月26日星期日
The posturing from each Microsoft and Google illustrates
This month, Home windows Mobile phone buyers ultimately acquired
Microsoft’s YouTube shopper for his or her handset. Created by Redmond, right
after Google declined to support their cellular platform, the shopper has
already sparked a confrontation (and lawful letters) concerning the two tech
providers. The saga of the WP YouTube consumer is far from more than, but it
surely highlights two essential areas - Microsoft implies business with Home
windows Cellular phone, and YouTube is starting to become as pervasive to be a
utility organization.
Up to date in the initially week of Might, Microsoft’s YouTube consumer ceased remaining an icon that opened up a mobile website and have become an entire software on any Windows Mobile phone handset, which include guidance for Kid’s Corner by restricting entry to age limited videos; pinning channels, playlists and films; and downloading videos for offline viewing.
By together with an alternative to obtain videos towards the handset, and not exhibiting any in-app promotion, Microsoft was provoking response from Google (many of the time together with the remedy of ‘we’d enjoy to incorporate these, but we really don't contain the API’). That reaction duly arrived, a huge, juicy stop and desist letter (while using the ask for to employ the trapdoor inside the Windows Mobile phone Retail outlet to remotely delete all copies on the app).
And the same as that, after a metaphorical spherical of company ‘who’s is bigger’, the 2 firms are sitting down spherical the desk, and it looks like Windows Telephone buyers can have a decent and formal YouTube customer soon after all.
It at the time experienced a very good third-party edition termed Metrotube, but any one supporting that application will realise that it had been consistently searching for solutions into the not enough APIs from Google, and at a single place withdrew alone from the Home windows Telephone Retail store since it had been just too difficult to help keep up with all the modifications. It is again now, and end users carry on to like the app. But there was constantly demand from customers for a thing a lot more official.
The posturing from each Microsoft and Google illustrates just how crucial on the web video is always to a mobile system, and the de facto leader during this industry is clearly YouTube. By supplying clientele for just a variety of mobile platforms of their selection, but only an HTML5 cellular version from the web site for Windows Cellphone customers, Google needs to be wary of the anti-trust motion presented the dominance YouTube has inside the sector.
Google has declined to assistance Home windows Cellphone with applications, pointing towards the lower sector share from the system, and their HTML5 choices that suggest the data could be partially accessed throughout the cell web browser. So Microsoft has produced this consumer applying their means, but without authorization to accessibility the indigenous APIs, they’re needing to power the problem which is able to profit the people, however it also bolsters the Home windows Phone system and offers it parity together with the handsets following to it around the Higher Road.
There’s still likely to be many give and choose involving the companies (the download solution has currently been taken off), and many of which may be performed out in public, but the stage is set. Microsoft is going aggressive with Home windows Mobile phone; and Google really should take care of the YouTube as being a utility that ought to be accessible to everybody on the web, not as their unique walled yard wherever they're able to establish obtain legal rights on the platform by system basis.
Up to date in the initially week of Might, Microsoft’s YouTube consumer ceased remaining an icon that opened up a mobile website and have become an entire software on any Windows Mobile phone handset, which include guidance for Kid’s Corner by restricting entry to age limited videos; pinning channels, playlists and films; and downloading videos for offline viewing.
By together with an alternative to obtain videos towards the handset, and not exhibiting any in-app promotion, Microsoft was provoking response from Google (many of the time together with the remedy of ‘we’d enjoy to incorporate these, but we really don't contain the API’). That reaction duly arrived, a huge, juicy stop and desist letter (while using the ask for to employ the trapdoor inside the Windows Mobile phone Retail outlet to remotely delete all copies on the app).
And the same as that, after a metaphorical spherical of company ‘who’s is bigger’, the 2 firms are sitting down spherical the desk, and it looks like Windows Telephone buyers can have a decent and formal YouTube customer soon after all.
It at the time experienced a very good third-party edition termed Metrotube, but any one supporting that application will realise that it had been consistently searching for solutions into the not enough APIs from Google, and at a single place withdrew alone from the Home windows Telephone Retail store since it had been just too difficult to help keep up with all the modifications. It is again now, and end users carry on to like the app. But there was constantly demand from customers for a thing a lot more official.
The posturing from each Microsoft and Google illustrates just how crucial on the web video is always to a mobile system, and the de facto leader during this industry is clearly YouTube. By supplying clientele for just a variety of mobile platforms of their selection, but only an HTML5 cellular version from the web site for Windows Cellphone customers, Google needs to be wary of the anti-trust motion presented the dominance YouTube has inside the sector.
Google has declined to assistance Home windows Cellphone with applications, pointing towards the lower sector share from the system, and their HTML5 choices that suggest the data could be partially accessed throughout the cell web browser. So Microsoft has produced this consumer applying their means, but without authorization to accessibility the indigenous APIs, they’re needing to power the problem which is able to profit the people, however it also bolsters the Home windows Phone system and offers it parity together with the handsets following to it around the Higher Road.
There’s still likely to be many give and choose involving the companies (the download solution has currently been taken off), and many of which may be performed out in public, but the stage is set. Microsoft is going aggressive with Home windows Mobile phone; and Google really should take care of the YouTube as being a utility that ought to be accessible to everybody on the web, not as their unique walled yard wherever they're able to establish obtain legal rights on the platform by system basis.
2013年5月16日星期四
Seven million UK adults have never used internet
More than seven million adults in the UK have never used the internet,
official figures suggest.
The data revealed around 1 million more people have ventured on to the web since this time last year.
But the latest statistics show 14% of those over the age of 16 have never accessed material online.
Significantly more women than men have never used the internet (4.2 million compared with 2.8 million), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
It found that 326,000 adults used the internet for the first time between January and March this year.
A spokesperson for the ONS said: "Internet use is linked to various socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, disability, geographical location and weekly earnings.
"For example, those who are less likely to have used the internet include elderly and disabled adults."
A breakdown of the population by age showed almost all of those between 16 and 24 (99%) have used the web.
Those least likely to have connected were 75 or over.
However, there was a marked increase in internet users among people of this age in the past two years.
At the beginning of 2011, estimates suggested 23.8% of this demographic had accessed the internet, compared with 34.3% this year (1.6 million people).
But it warned that estimates relating to elderly people should be treated with a degree of caution because of smaller sample sizes. A regional breakdown of the figures showed Londoners were most likely to have made a foray online.
An estimated 90% of those in the capital have accessed web content.
People in Northern Ireland were least likely to have embraced the digital age. In this area, 79% of adults have gone online, the figures suggested.
In the two years since it began to collate the data, it said the number of adults who have used the web has risen by 2.4 million (6%), from an initial 41.1 million.
Income remains a barrier to getting online however. "Internet use has almost reached full coverage for those earning in excess of £500 a week, with internet use at 98% or above for all adults with weekly pay rates above this level," said the spokesperson.
It found more than 5% of workers with a gross weekly pay of less than £200 per week have never connected.
The data revealed around 1 million more people have ventured on to the web since this time last year.
But the latest statistics show 14% of those over the age of 16 have never accessed material online.
Significantly more women than men have never used the internet (4.2 million compared with 2.8 million), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
It found that 326,000 adults used the internet for the first time between January and March this year.
A spokesperson for the ONS said: "Internet use is linked to various socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, disability, geographical location and weekly earnings.
"For example, those who are less likely to have used the internet include elderly and disabled adults."
A breakdown of the population by age showed almost all of those between 16 and 24 (99%) have used the web.
Those least likely to have connected were 75 or over.
However, there was a marked increase in internet users among people of this age in the past two years.
At the beginning of 2011, estimates suggested 23.8% of this demographic had accessed the internet, compared with 34.3% this year (1.6 million people).
But it warned that estimates relating to elderly people should be treated with a degree of caution because of smaller sample sizes. A regional breakdown of the figures showed Londoners were most likely to have made a foray online.
An estimated 90% of those in the capital have accessed web content.
People in Northern Ireland were least likely to have embraced the digital age. In this area, 79% of adults have gone online, the figures suggested.
In the two years since it began to collate the data, it said the number of adults who have used the web has risen by 2.4 million (6%), from an initial 41.1 million.
Income remains a barrier to getting online however. "Internet use has almost reached full coverage for those earning in excess of £500 a week, with internet use at 98% or above for all adults with weekly pay rates above this level," said the spokesperson.
It found more than 5% of workers with a gross weekly pay of less than £200 per week have never connected.
She verified that there will certainly be a preview
Microsoft launched Home windows 8 in time with the holiday seasons very
last 12 months, but you can expect to have to hold out until the 2013 holiday
browsing period to get a wide selection of devices and fixes that tackle
grievances regarding the program.
Throughout her opening remarks, she discovered that Home windows Blue, the code name for an update towards the application expected to include a Begin button into Home windows eight, will be a free of charge update for people. It will be officially referred to as Windows 8.one.
She verified that there will certainly be a preview of Home windows eight.1 for the duration of the company's Create conference in late June, at which time we will likely find out additional details about what precisely will probably be in the update.
Reller danced around the issue of when accurately Windows eight.1 will come to be readily available for patrons but implied it'll be launched within the holidays. "We're sensitive for the timing of your holiday seasons and what which means for getting the update out," she explained. "We comprehend when the holidays are. We would like to underscore that."
She also claimed that supply troubles that have held back again the supply of extra touchscreen equipment -- which Home windows 8 was designed to allow -- is recuperating but won't be fully solved until later on this year. "We see that touch offer is obtaining much greater. Because of the holidays we won't see the kinds of limitations we've seen around the ability of our companions and retail companions for getting contact during the quantity they'd like which prospects are demanding," she said.
Touchscreen supply constraints have been blamed to get a lack of a number of fascinating kind factors when Windows eight released last calendar year. A fast enhancement cycle for the operating method also intended that OEMs may not have experienced the time they ordinarily do to build new goods. But lots of people imagined that those troubles could be solved from the initially couple of months of the year.
Nevertheless it does influence the consumer market, which increasingly influences the varieties of products that are made use of during the business. Without having compelling Home windows 8 devices on keep cabinets, consumers have additional motive to obtain products and solutions from competition like Apple and Google. Microsoft will have only a lot of holiday break searching seasons to persuade customers that it's going to get it suitable.
Throughout her opening remarks, she discovered that Home windows Blue, the code name for an update towards the application expected to include a Begin button into Home windows eight, will be a free of charge update for people. It will be officially referred to as Windows 8.one.
She verified that there will certainly be a preview of Home windows eight.1 for the duration of the company's Create conference in late June, at which time we will likely find out additional details about what precisely will probably be in the update.
Reller danced around the issue of when accurately Windows eight.1 will come to be readily available for patrons but implied it'll be launched within the holidays. "We're sensitive for the timing of your holiday seasons and what which means for getting the update out," she explained. "We comprehend when the holidays are. We would like to underscore that."
She also claimed that supply troubles that have held back again the supply of extra touchscreen equipment -- which Home windows 8 was designed to allow -- is recuperating but won't be fully solved until later on this year. "We see that touch offer is obtaining much greater. Because of the holidays we won't see the kinds of limitations we've seen around the ability of our companions and retail companions for getting contact during the quantity they'd like which prospects are demanding," she said.
Touchscreen supply constraints have been blamed to get a lack of a number of fascinating kind factors when Windows eight released last calendar year. A fast enhancement cycle for the operating method also intended that OEMs may not have experienced the time they ordinarily do to build new goods. But lots of people imagined that those troubles could be solved from the initially couple of months of the year.
Nevertheless it does influence the consumer market, which increasingly influences the varieties of products that are made use of during the business. Without having compelling Home windows 8 devices on keep cabinets, consumers have additional motive to obtain products and solutions from competition like Apple and Google. Microsoft will have only a lot of holiday break searching seasons to persuade customers that it's going to get it suitable.
2013年5月7日星期二
Yahoo said to be courting Hulu for video unit
It's looking like a possible Hulu buyout may be heating up. Reportedly,
Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with the video streaming company's
corporate owners, according to AllThingsD.
Hulu has been rumored to be looking for a buyer over the past couple of years and recently several companies have allegedly expressed interest. Of those said to have reached out to Hulu's execs are Ross Levinsohn, the former interim Yahoo CEO who now works for Guggenheim Partners, Yahoo, and Amazon.
Now, it seems like Yahoo may be upping it's pursuit.
It's no secret that Yahoo has been looking to expand its video feature. Not only has it recently expanded its original exclusive programming, but Mayer said Tuesday during the Wired Business Conference that video is important across all of Yahoo's properties, according to AllThingsD.
Hulu buyout rumors have popped up pretty often over the past couple of years. The company's owners, which include Walt Disney and News Corp., put the company up for sale in 2011 but called off the process later that year, saying Hulu "holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners." Yahoo was one of the interested buyers even back then.
However, since that time, co-owner Providence Equity Partners sold its stake in Hulu, and Comcast's NBC Universal gave up its say in management matters because of regulatory restrictions related to the NBC acquisition. In addition, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said in January that he would step down in the first quarter.
The remaining owners, Disney and News Corp., have disagreed on Hulu's strategy. News Corp., which owns Fox, would like to see Hulu transition away from ads and become a subscription-only service. Disney prefers a free service supported by ads. Along with speculation about an outside bidder taking over Hulu, there also has been talk that Disney or News Corp. could buy out the other's stake.
Hulu has been rumored to be looking for a buyer over the past couple of years and recently several companies have allegedly expressed interest. Of those said to have reached out to Hulu's execs are Ross Levinsohn, the former interim Yahoo CEO who now works for Guggenheim Partners, Yahoo, and Amazon.
Now, it seems like Yahoo may be upping it's pursuit.
It's no secret that Yahoo has been looking to expand its video feature. Not only has it recently expanded its original exclusive programming, but Mayer said Tuesday during the Wired Business Conference that video is important across all of Yahoo's properties, according to AllThingsD.
Hulu buyout rumors have popped up pretty often over the past couple of years. The company's owners, which include Walt Disney and News Corp., put the company up for sale in 2011 but called off the process later that year, saying Hulu "holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners." Yahoo was one of the interested buyers even back then.
However, since that time, co-owner Providence Equity Partners sold its stake in Hulu, and Comcast's NBC Universal gave up its say in management matters because of regulatory restrictions related to the NBC acquisition. In addition, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said in January that he would step down in the first quarter.
The remaining owners, Disney and News Corp., have disagreed on Hulu's strategy. News Corp., which owns Fox, would like to see Hulu transition away from ads and become a subscription-only service. Disney prefers a free service supported by ads. Along with speculation about an outside bidder taking over Hulu, there also has been talk that Disney or News Corp. could buy out the other's stake.
Blue are going to be launched right before Microsoft
Using the makeover it released past October, Microsoft hoped to perform a
far more notable function inside the growing cellular unit industry when
nonetheless keeping its dominance in PCs. But Windows 8's structure, which
emphasizes interactive tiles and contact controls, appears to get befuddled as a
lot of people because it has amazed. One main investigate firm, Global Facts
Corp., claims Home windows eight contributed to some fourteen percent decrease
in worldwide Computer revenue throughout the initial a few months of the yr -
the largest year-over-year drop at any time.
Meanwhile, income of smartphones and pill personal computers are booming. The largest beneficiaries are already Apple Inc., the maker in the apple iphone and iPad, and Samsung Electronics Co., which sells probably the most products running on Google Inc.'s Android software package. Google can be benefiting from Android's level of popularity by means of amplified visitors to its companies, producing much more options to the firm to exhibit adverts.
By contrast, main Pc makers this kind of as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., which generally market Windows-powered devices, have already been mired inside a monetary funk that has battered their stocks and raised questions on their futures.
The corporate, which is based in Redmond, Wash., suggests much more than 100 million Home windows eight licenses have been offered up to now, up from about 60 million licenses in January. The licensing volume "is inside the similar general ballpark," as Microsoft's prior functioning technique - Home windows 7 - in a related juncture of its sales cycle, according to Tami Reller, who serves given that the advertising and fiscal chief for Microsoft's Windows organization.
In an job interview, Reller stated Microsoft nonetheless understood changes need to be built to create Windows 8 simpler to navigate and capable of using comprehensive benefit of technological innovation advancements that have occur out considering the fact that October.
For now, Microsoft isn't expressing what sort of variations is going to be introduced together with the launch of Blue, which the business options to anoint which has a distinctive identify once the update is obtainable. Microsoft also isn't expressing no matter if it'll charge current house owners of Windows 8 products to receive the fixes in Blue. The corporation programs to launch Blue in time for the holiday getaway year.
Reller said extra information about Blue are going to be launched right before Microsoft holds a builders conference in San Francisco in late June. Some of Blue's capabilities are expected to be previewed at that meeting.
Other critics have pined for an option that will allow the technique to start in a very desktop manner fitted to working programs suitable for earlier variations of your operating process. Windows eight at this time starts off off exhibiting a mosaic of interactive tiles personalized for swiping by programs using a finger as an alternative of working with a computer mouse.
Apart from responding to customer comments, Blue also will improve Home windows 8's capacity to focus on smaller tablets with 7- and 8-inch show screens, Reller reported. She declined to say whether Microsoft intends to help make smaller model of its individual Floor tablets. Within a conference simply call with analysts very last month, Microsoft Chief Money Officer Peter Klein explained the organization was doing work with other makers for making smaller sized tablets.
One thing that Blue is not going to repair: the reasonably small collection of cell apps customized for Home windows 8. Reller claimed the Windows eight shop now has far more than sixty,000 apps. By contrast, you will find far more than 800,000 apps readily available for Apple's mobile's units and approximately that many for Android units, way too. In a single from the most obvious omissions on Windows 8, Facebook Inc. even now has not intended an app to make its on the internet social community more obtainable on that process. Fb has about 750 million cell users.
Reller is trying to border the improvements as evidence that Microsoft is becoming additional agile and nimble because it responds to some swiftly evolving know-how sector. Smartphones and pill computers are already at the epicenter of your upheaval, diminishing the demand for PCs as a lot more men and women and enterprises choose with the convenience of more and more impressive cellular equipment.
The cellular computing movement may be the main reason that Microsoft designed essentially the most extraordinary redesign of its Windows operating process given that 1995. Supplied how various that Windows eight is from its predecessors, Reller stated Microsoft often realized it might really need to make some changes less than the usual calendar year after the program came out.
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Meanwhile, income of smartphones and pill personal computers are booming. The largest beneficiaries are already Apple Inc., the maker in the apple iphone and iPad, and Samsung Electronics Co., which sells probably the most products running on Google Inc.'s Android software package. Google can be benefiting from Android's level of popularity by means of amplified visitors to its companies, producing much more options to the firm to exhibit adverts.
By contrast, main Pc makers this kind of as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., which generally market Windows-powered devices, have already been mired inside a monetary funk that has battered their stocks and raised questions on their futures.
The corporate, which is based in Redmond, Wash., suggests much more than 100 million Home windows eight licenses have been offered up to now, up from about 60 million licenses in January. The licensing volume "is inside the similar general ballpark," as Microsoft's prior functioning technique - Home windows 7 - in a related juncture of its sales cycle, according to Tami Reller, who serves given that the advertising and fiscal chief for Microsoft's Windows organization.
In an job interview, Reller stated Microsoft nonetheless understood changes need to be built to create Windows 8 simpler to navigate and capable of using comprehensive benefit of technological innovation advancements that have occur out considering the fact that October.
For now, Microsoft isn't expressing what sort of variations is going to be introduced together with the launch of Blue, which the business options to anoint which has a distinctive identify once the update is obtainable. Microsoft also isn't expressing no matter if it'll charge current house owners of Windows 8 products to receive the fixes in Blue. The corporation programs to launch Blue in time for the holiday getaway year.
Reller said extra information about Blue are going to be launched right before Microsoft holds a builders conference in San Francisco in late June. Some of Blue's capabilities are expected to be previewed at that meeting.
Other critics have pined for an option that will allow the technique to start in a very desktop manner fitted to working programs suitable for earlier variations of your operating process. Windows eight at this time starts off off exhibiting a mosaic of interactive tiles personalized for swiping by programs using a finger as an alternative of working with a computer mouse.
Apart from responding to customer comments, Blue also will improve Home windows 8's capacity to focus on smaller tablets with 7- and 8-inch show screens, Reller reported. She declined to say whether Microsoft intends to help make smaller model of its individual Floor tablets. Within a conference simply call with analysts very last month, Microsoft Chief Money Officer Peter Klein explained the organization was doing work with other makers for making smaller sized tablets.
One thing that Blue is not going to repair: the reasonably small collection of cell apps customized for Home windows 8. Reller claimed the Windows eight shop now has far more than sixty,000 apps. By contrast, you will find far more than 800,000 apps readily available for Apple's mobile's units and approximately that many for Android units, way too. In a single from the most obvious omissions on Windows 8, Facebook Inc. even now has not intended an app to make its on the internet social community more obtainable on that process. Fb has about 750 million cell users.
Reller is trying to border the improvements as evidence that Microsoft is becoming additional agile and nimble because it responds to some swiftly evolving know-how sector. Smartphones and pill computers are already at the epicenter of your upheaval, diminishing the demand for PCs as a lot more men and women and enterprises choose with the convenience of more and more impressive cellular equipment.
The cellular computing movement may be the main reason that Microsoft designed essentially the most extraordinary redesign of its Windows operating process given that 1995. Supplied how various that Windows eight is from its predecessors, Reller stated Microsoft often realized it might really need to make some changes less than the usual calendar year after the program came out.
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