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» Google encourages people to shoot video with tablets…
…secures position as history’s worst monster.
» Market opportunity
Marco Arment comes not to praise Google Reader, but to bury it:
It may suck in the interim before great alternatives mature and become widely supported, but in the long run, trust me: this is excellent news.
Contrary to The Verge’s headline — “Google, don’t turn off Reader. Signed, The Internet” — I’d say do turn it off, just give more time.
» Google kills Reader
Maybe I’m old, but I still use RSS and Reader had become the de facto syncing engine because, you know, Google decided it wanted to own that market by giving the service away for free. Until they didn’t because, oh, guess we can’t shove ads into your feed.
This would probably be a good time to point out that this site has a Twitter feed.
» Breaking “Android” down
Ben Bajarin breaks down IDC’s estimate that Android tablets will overtake the iPad in market share this year.
To clearly understand the Android picture we need to better understand the flavors of the OS and in particular which ones have the Google Play store and which ones do not. Because what really matters if we are interested in a clear industry picture of OS platform share is the distribution mechanisms for applications on each platform.
Or you can just say “Android is winning” and go to lunch like so many others.
» Apple’s smartphone market share collapse
Benedict Evans provides some charts of the devastation. Not for the faint of heart.
» A long time ago, we used to be friends but I haven’t thought of you lately at all
Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie, the video for which is terrific. I’m in, because I also still need closure on high school.
Oh, like that’s unusual.
» Why Apple should sidestep the ‘phablet’
Over at Macworld, I make some phablet jokes. And hopefully we all learn something, too.
» Cutters
Nielsen says about 5 percent of households in the U.S. have canceled their cable TV subscriptions in favor of “non-traditional TV devices and services”. It also says that this number has more than doubled since 2007.
We did this a couple of years ago but I should warn you if you’re thinking about doing this: it’s surprisingly hard to find oversized novelty scissors for your cord-cutting ceremony.
(Via The Verge)