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Below are the top 5 iPhone Apps from Canada, USA, and UK
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With RIM’s BlackBerry slowing losing market share, this begs the question, what does BlackBerry need to change? Is it the model of the phone (which is quite different than other smartphones), Is it the fact that apps are quite difficult to develop for a marketplace which is less than 5% the size of Apple’s? A blog post over at Toktumi leads us to believe that Blackberry is doomed.
The long awaited iPhone is finally coming to Canada as well as over 20 other countries on July 11th. The new 3G iPhone is expected to cost half as much ($199 for the 8 gb model) as is supposed to have a faster internet connection (running on advanced wireless networks) as well as upgraded software.Slashing the price of the 3G iPhone from $399 to $199 is a big change for Apple at a time when more mainstream consumers are looking to upgrade from regular cellphones to smart phones, said Kaan Yigit, a consultant with Solutions Research Group in Toronto. “All of a sudden, they’ve turned the iPhone from a much-loved and admired device, but not owned by many, into a mass-appeal and attainable mainstream device,” he said.
Only about 12 per cent of Canadian cellphone owners are using smart phones, which means the growth potential for all companies selling Internet-enabled mobile devices is ready to explode, now that the devices are in their price range, he said.
Forbes: The 3G iPhone is a machine designed to gobble up market share. The device will build on Apple’s splashy arrival in the handset market last year. Apple lost ground when it choked off the supply of the original iPhone ahead of the launch of this 3G version. Six months after putting out the iPhone last year, Apple had seized 26.7% of the U.S. smart phone market in the final quarter of 2007. Tech market tracker IDC reported June 6 that Apple had sagged to 19.2% during the first quarter of this year, well behind rival Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM – news - people ), which dominates the market with its 44.5% share.
BrandZ (Millward Brown) has released its annual report of the top 100 hundred brands in the world and without surprise Google comes in on top again this year having a brand value of over $86 Billion dollars. Apple had the largest increase (in the top 10) from last year, going up 123% to $55 billion dollars. Blackberry had the greatest overall (top 100) increase with a 390% climb to just over $13.7 Billion dollars. Here’s the top 15 from the BrandZ report:
| Brand | Brand Value $M | Change % |
| 86,057 | 30% | |
| General Electric | 71,379 | 15% |
| Microsoft | 70,887 | 29% |
| Coca Cola | 58,208 | 17% |
| China Mobile | 57,225 | 39% |
| IBM | 55,335 | 65% |
| Apple | 55,206 | 123% |
| McDonalds | 49,499 | 49% |
| Nokia | 43,975 | 39% |
| Marlboro | 37,324 | -5% |
| Vodafone | 36,962 | 75% |
| Toyota | 35,134 | 5% |
| Wal-Mart | 34,547 | -6% |
| Bank of America | 33,092 | 15% |
| HP | 29,278 | 17% |
Recently at MacWorld, Apple announced the release of their newest, thinnest laptop the MacBook Air. It’s one of the most sophisticated technologies available in that it can hold all of the components which comprise a laptop yet still remain amazingly thin. Today over at the Wired Gadgets Blog they wrote about a parody MacBook Air Video(from YouTube) which poked fun of the “paper like” design and its cost of $3000.
Here is the original MacBook Air Video:
Here is the Parody of the same video:
Yesterday at Macworld, Apple introduced the MacBook Air. I just had a few looks at the images on the Macworld site and I was blown away at the size of this notebook.
It weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep. The MacBook Air features a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80GB of storage capacity standard. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo chip running at 1.6GHz, with 1.8GHz available as an option. The chip operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus. 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM is also included.
I thought it would be interesting to compare the MacBook Air with other mainstream notebooks from Dell, Toshiba, Acer and HP.
Dell XPS M1330
Weight: Starting at 3.97
Width: 31.8cm
Height: 2.21cm – 3.38cm
Depth: 23.8cm
Toshiba Techra
Depth 11.1 in
Height 1.4 in
Weight 5.3 lbs
Width 13.2 in
HP Pavilion dv2700t
Dimensions: 13.15 (L) x 9.33 (W) x 1.02 (min H)/1.54 (max H)
Weight 5.29lbs
Acer Ferrari 1100
Dimensions & Weight
11.9″ (304.0mm) W x 8.9″ (228.0mm) D x 1.3″ (34.0mm) H
4.3 lb. (1.95kg)
Toshiba Answers with R500
