PayPal 2.0 for the iPhone debuted this past week at CTIA 2010 with a cool new feature, “bump“, which allows users to virtually exchange money by bumping their iPhones together. Users of other smartphones, however, won’t be left out in the cold for too long because PayPal with “bump” mobile applications are coming to Android and BlackBerry devices in the next two to three months.
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LuciD Messenger is a cross platform instant messaging client currently available on the iPhone, Android devices, and is coming to the BlackBerry as soon as it is approved. The LuciD messaging system allows users to send messages to friends, create chats (groups of up to 30 people), share images and files, keep your friends up-to-date with your status, and a whole lot more.
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According to a the second semi-annual smartphone brand loyalty survey by Crowd Science, 40% of BlackBerry users want their next smartphone to be an iPhone. The BlackBerry may be on top when it comes smartphone market share, but, when 2 of 5 BlackBerry users want to switch to Research in Motion’s primary competition’s device, the question becomes, how long can they stay there.
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According to data just released by analytics firm Quantcast, Android and BlackBerry mobile web consumption in the month of February was up while that of the iPhone was down slightly.
Android’s share of North American mobile web consumption was up 8.3% from January 2010, to 15.2% of total mobile web consumption for the month of February. Apple’s iPhone OS share, which so far has seemed untouchable, dropped 3.2% from January to February 2010, while the share for RIM OS (Blackberry) grew 13.2% in that period, to 9.2%.
I wouldn’t start dropping stock in Apple (because of this news alone) as the results are pretty much expected and make sense. The iPhone owns such a large part of the total market that any company which does something positive makes gains on Apple.
What will be really interesting to see is this chart the month after the new BlackBerry Browser is released.
[Via Venture Beat]
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When it comes to the mobile app downloads Android users are catching up to iPhone users. In recent report from AdMob, downloads from over 900 smartphone users were tracked and it turns out that Android users download 8.7 applications per month trailing iPhone users by just 0.1 downloads per month.
The iPod Touch has the most monthly downloads coming in at 12.1. downloads per month. It is followed by the iPhone and Android with 8.8 and 8.7 respectively. WebOS brings up the rear with 5.7 mobile application downloads per month.
It’s kind of telling that the BlackBerry doesn’t even make the list, but, I’ll leave that for another post.
[Via Mobile Magazine]
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What Apple has been able to do with the App Store, even if you believe the numbers are fudged, is truly astonishing. Apple claims that they recently eclipsed the 3 billion download mark and it only took them roughly 18 months to do so. Market research firm, Gartner, says that 2.5 billion apps were downloaded from the App Store in 2009 alone. Gartner accounts for another 16 million apps being downloaded from other platforms, so, when you do the math, well over 99% of all mobile downloads were from Apple’s App Store.
These kinds of numbers are awesomely impressive for Apple, however, I see a huge opportunity for everyone else.
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So, a(n) nut job irrational iPhone fanatic asked me what I am going to do with all my free time once RIMarkable folds because Research in Motion will be bankrupt by June and out of business before the end of the year and I 1have nothing left to talk about. They challenged me to give them one reason why, “the iPhone won’t continue to dominate in the States and further knock the lackberry into oblivion…”
Now, even the most die-hard of iPhone users that actually base their commentary in reality know that the iPhone doesn’t dominate the U.S. market and, in fact, is number two to the BlackBerry, but, because I think this will be the fodder for some very interesting comments, I’m going to give you 10 reasons why, with their current model, Apple and the iPhone will Never dominate the U.S. market.
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I was just having a very interesting conversation with a couple of co-workers… One is a long-time BlackBerry user. The other just got a brand new iPhone 3G S for Christmas. As iPhone 3G S user showed off their new gadget, long time BlackBerry user said, “That iPhone is pretty cool, but, I would never get one because it has no keyboard.” iPhone user replied, “I really miss they keyboard on my Curve, but, the OS on here allows me to do so much more than I used to be able to do.”
This got me to thinking… RIM has no choice but to overhaul the BlackBerry OS and some point. Apple could sell keyboardless iPhones forever, but, they undoubtedly would exclude millions of potential customers that will never buy a phone without buttons, so, I think that we eventually will see an iPhone model with a keyboard.
The big question for me… Which one will happen first?
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