This Bloomberg tech reporter seems to think 1.5 million.
(That’s not very many.)
Here’s a great rock track by an independent musician who’s finding out that a record label is less necessary than ever: Rob Chapman has built up 80,000 YouTube subscribers by providing a channel full of great content. We (I’m one of these subscribers) are all willing to support Chappers in his endeavours any way we can.
Rob has crowd-funded a Dorje tour and even managed to start up an entire guitar company thanks to his online “following”. This is the direction I see independent creators and builders taking in the future.
In a way, Chasing Perfection is my first step on this ladder. My small corner of the web which I control.
Spoiler: it’s complicated.
Google has always focused primarily on webapps.
Apple has always focused primarily on native apps.
After this announcement (and looking at Apple’s iCloud web control panel), I think it’s a reasonable assumption to expect the future of online services to encompass both native apps and web apps.
Still, it feels strange to me watching Google release a new service focused primarily around an app. Times are changing.
As for Google Keep itself, it looks a bit like Reminders coupled with a scrapbook. Looks a bit too disjointed for my taste, but I’m interested to see how it works.
This song was featured in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which I enjoyed last year. Check out the 90 second preview in iTunes.
I’d categorise the tune as alternative hard rock. It’s got a killer energetic riff, a great chorus and Emily Armstrong, the lead vocalist, has an awesome voice. Dead Sara are a fairly unknown new artist and I’m glad to support them.
(Yes, it is a coincidence that I share the surname of the lead singer. Dead Sara are from Los Angeles. I’m not.)
I lost it at the “Hipster or Homeless?” page.
From a Which? article comparing Windows 7 and 8 battery life across various notebooks:
The worst battery life on Windows 7 came from the Dell Inspiron 17R, which managed just one hour and 45 minutes of web time.
How can Dell be satisfied shipping crap like this? In 2012?! That battery life figure is just web browsing time, let alone watching videos. I feel sorry for every single individual who owns one of these machines.
Say what you want about Apple, they would never ship something this bad.
I have to say, the timing does smell a little fishy to me; perhaps Apple would have been better to have not even “acknowledged” the release of Samsung’s Galaxy S4.
All the points on the page are truly legitimate reasons to choose an iPhone — and if this page sticks around, I’ll certainly refer friends and family to it to explain why the iPhone is my phone of choice — but perhaps the page could have been released a few days either side of Samsung’s announcement? Being released so close to a competitor’s time in the spotlight makes it feel a little desperate, as Owen Williams points out. Sometimes not even acknowledging a competitor is the best form of competition.
I guess that depends whose predictions you were reading. Mine seem pretty accurate.
Well, that’s another use for it, I guess. For me, apps are the killer feature.
As ever, Gruber hits the nail on the head with so much vigour I feel compelled to share his piece:
The desire for the “Oh, how the mighty Apple has fallen” narrative is so strong that the narrative is simply being stated as fact, evidence to the contrary be damned. It’s reported as true simply because they want it to be true. They’re declaring “The King is dead; long live the King” not because the king has actually died or abdicated the throne, but because they’re bored with the king and want to write a new coronation story.