I am leaving New York City because of all of these goddamned wizards.

Add this to the list of things I wish I had written.

Greg Sterling for Marketing Land:

Apple delivered 63 (nearly two-thirds) of all mobile ad impressions [in the third quarter] while Android saw 32 percent, a decline of 6 percent vs. the previous quarter.

One set of results from one ad platform, but the point is that market share doesn’t necessarily mean what so many say it means. This is a particularly important lesson for an ad-driven company like Google.

Tell me again who won the Apple Maps Wars.

(Via Matthew Panzarino)

I join John Gruber on this week’s edition of The Talk Show to discuss Buttsgate.

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Ben Bajarin:

Many retailers clearly want iPad shoppers, which is why they offer them gift cards, since they are more willing to spend.

It also explains Target’s iPad trade in of a few weeks ago. People who have iPads? Let’s get them in the store.

Just another data point for why the “developers and third parties will leave iOS because of market share” argument is bogus.

I agree with all of Stephen Hackett’s very positive iPad Air review, including his points about the cover.

The new cover doesn’t have any points of overlap, and the iPad Air can come detached if typed on too hard. In the vertical orientation, the tablet feels secure, but I’ve had it tumble over backwards on more than one occasion while using it in bed.

In short, the new Smart Cover is a step backwards.

I know the old cover’s metal hinge left scratches after a while but it also provided a much more secure attachment. And the new cover’s polyurethane binding lets it twist. I use the Smart Cover for protecting the front of the iPad Air and putting it into a standing position for watching something or using it for reference. But I don’t rely on it like I did the old cover.

Complaints about the cover aside, I think the iPad Air is a leap forward for the iPad even bigger than the Retina screen.

Why am I plugging a desk? No, Dania is not a sponsor, my wife got this desk a few weeks ago and for $500 it’s the cheapest, decently-made motorized standing desk that I’ve seen. She hasn’t had it that long, but I put it together for her and it seems solidly built. We’ve had some Dania furniture before and while it’s not the best it’s better than Ikea in my experience. (Maybe that praise is too faint.) Assembly was a little complicated but I did it so it can’t be that hard. The top goes up and down smoothly with her monitor, MacBook and a moderate amount of assorted papers and crap on top of it.

It seems like a lot of people are looking for sit/stand desks and most of the prices we saw when we were looking started at $800 and quickly run up into the thousands, so this one is a deal if you’re in the market.

From the “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy” files, the LA Times reports on the white supremacist who is now being targeted by other white supremacists after his DNA results were revealed on national television as being 14 percent sub-Saharan African.

Aw, such a shame.

(Via TPM)

The Verge’s Bryan Bishop:

$290 million is a significant drop from the more than $450 million that Koh cut, but it’s clearly not the kind of number Samsung was looking for. Apple had been asking for $380 million out of the damages retrial, while Samsung was targeting a mere $52 million.

Alas, we no longer have Dan Lyons to tell us what it all means so you’ll just have to figure it out on your own. Sorry. So sorry.

After five days of #buttsgate, now when you say “butts” to Siri the first result is Beavis and Butthead, not anal sex.

Congratulations. You’re a survivor.