Posts by Pedro S

The Register and Australia-New Zealand

Great!

Thanks for this.

As you'd know lots of underworlders read the Reg and a bit of local stuff would be appreciated.

Stories on local IT firms that do OK would be of interest, and how the big global IT firms are flogging stuff in Oz is also of interest.

Clamshell dinner – Jobs and iPad munch netbook sales

Spectacularly idiotic comment

"Apple has ported their successful iPhone app business model to the iPad. Android-based phones followed in their footsteps and will surely do the same with slates. The result will be that buyers of slates will be able to take advantage of this a la carte software model, adding only the functionality they want on their devices."

This is a new model. This is because when you get a PC you have a fixed menu of software and must download every single one of the millions of bits of software for the PC.

Nokia nixes flagship phone in US

But the total market share...

Apple has made a fine phone.

But, have a look at the OS page for usage. There, the iphone is 0.5% of hits. Even the famed 'Linux desktop' has more of the market.

This isn't to denigrate the iphone, just to point out that at the moment mobile browsers are a very, very small part of the overall market. Presumably this will change, just to give the figures some context.