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More Evidence That Apple Has "lost It"!


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Singapore entrepreneur Aileen Sim, recently launched an app for splitting bills called BillPin http://www.billpin.com, settling on an iOS version because that was the dominant platform in the three countries she was targeting - Singapore, India and the United States.

"But what surprised us was how strong the call for Android was when we launched our app," she said.

Indeed, 70 percent of their target users - 20-something college students and fresh graduates - said they were either already on Android or planned to switch over.

"Android is becoming really hard to ignore, around the region and in the U.S. for sure, but surprisingly even in Singapore," she said. "Even my younger early-20s cousins are mostly on Android now."

BillPin launched an Android version this month.

Full article:

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/1/28/business/20130128080557&sec=business

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Cook said in response to a question about the market for hybrid notebook/tablets. "You begin to make trade-offs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn't please anyone.”

He added, "You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.”

Without referring to Microsoft directly, he said that "others” might take that approach "from a defensive point of view.” However, he said, ”we're not going to that party.”

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Picture from recent Apple patent application. Maybe it's really just those patentable tables again?

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