Just Yesterday
Just yesterday I read an article that was about parents who are facing huge credit card charges because their children are playing so many games on their iPohone/iPad. Apparently the kids a buying a...
View ArticlePeter Kafka
I'll take your word for it on a lot of this stuff. But arguing that "Game Center" is an incentive for developers seems like a stretch. Any pick up on this stuff? Seems like telling music companies to...
View ArticleDan Frommer
I don't think GameCenter has any major user pickup yet. (Don't really know. But it is being built into a bunch of apps.) But to me it's representative of the fact that Apple is at least building free...
View ArticleSammy the Walrus IV
Fred Wilson is wrong because he is Fred Wilson. He just talks up his own investments and calls anything opposed to his investments as dying or going away. It is apparent he has no interest in investing...
View ArticleHTML5 Last?
I read that the nice thing about an iPhone App is that it's a wonderful way to create a custom browser and many apps have embedded browser features... When I was programming windows, I used to embed...
View Articlekilroy
Fred is 100% correct. Apple's app market has already had a huge growth spurt. Android adoption is going through the roof and it's app market growth is sure to follow. You don't want on that wave? More...
View Articlezzzibot
More for you? More like nothing for anyone. Android has been leading in the US for a couple of quarters in terms of boxes moved - but where are the app sales? And sales are 10-20% for corresponding...
View Articlezzzibotz
Gamecenter is hot if you're a game developer. It integrates matchmaking, high score lists, and achievements into a simple to use, common API which have historically been supported by other third party...
View ArticleWilson TalksHis Book
fred wilson talks his book his returns have been so low that I question whether Venture Capital is even worth pursuing he essentially runs a poorly performing hedge fund
View ArticleAndroid Phones Are Cheap
consumers are picking up android phones because they are cheaper than IPHONE just like pc's are cheaper than macs they are not users intent on downloading the latest apps they are just normal phone...
View Articleandroid dies
i predict android has less than 10% of the market in a few years something better will come to compete with iOS
View ArticleEqOrbit
I have to agree with this one. If only Google would integrate Google Checkout into its core framework or at least a plug-in.
View ArticleMB
Very well written article Dan!! "A high percentage of& payments are rejected and there is usually not enough information on why the payment was rejected." ==> This is an opportunity for...
View Articleblooku
Fred Wilson is heavily invested in companies that will make big if android takes off and he's beating the drum. Take what he says with a pinch of salt. His companies will thrive in Android's 'open'...
View ArticleRelwal
There are a lot of myths about Apple's App Store being perpetuated here. If you repeat something often enough does it become true? Rather than digging deeper and deeper into the well known faults with...
View ArticleSAL-e
"Here's the 5 reasons why Dan Frommer and Co are still in full denial" Ok. I 'fix' the title for you. LOL I see your the point Dan, but your are looking a single data point at frozen time moment. Fred...
View Articletim.hobbes
I disagree. In most cases, companies should obviously focus their mobile efforts on the clear market leader that is Android, and if there's an extra budget they perhaps can spend a little on iOS.
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"But Apple also still offers much better game development tools" Care to prove your point? Because this is a false statement. Why: Android offered native SDK one year ahead of iPhone Game developers...
View Articletim.hobbes
No, he is clearly right. You should bet on who is growing and will grow more, who is selling more and who is attracting more users. And we know that Android is the market leader...
View Article@Dan Frommer
What makes Android phones so" popular" with the Android Market being messy and inferior? Are the users inferior minded, robotic lovers as they are?
View Articledug
Apple is today. Android it the future. Good entrepreneurs anticipate the future. That is what Fred is saying and he has the experience to back it up. Editor of TBI with a prejudice for Apple products...
View ArticleJon T
Reading Fred Wilson's views on SAI over the last months make me believe the guy is really quite clueless. The levels of income to be generated for App developers from iOS vers Android are in favour of...
View ArticleNickler
You only say this because you have an iPhone. Companies should invest primarily in who is gaining more users, and in this case it is Android. The fact that they don't need to worry about Apple's...
View Articlebye, iOS
I believe iOS will die in about 2 years, if it continues to lose market share to Android at this rate.
View ArticleCarlos
Dan Frommer = Apple Fanboy!!!! Hey, Dan! What are you affraid of? Stop crying and face the real world! iShits are for kids! I commented on your posts earlier this year, but you insisted Androids would...
View Articlefredwilson
i do talk my book that part is very true but you are dead wrong about our returns http://www.scribd.com/doc/42776512/UTIMCOdata
View Articlefredwilson
dan if you want to focus on here and now, you may well be right but if you want to know what is going to happen and invest in that, you are wrong
View ArticleApple's policies are scary
You forgot to mention the developer's fear about Apple's policies. You forgot to mention that Apple blocked 3rd party frameworks and made many people lose all their work. Yes, Apple's policy change...
View Articlemaxidus
Gamecenter It integrates matchmaking, high score lists, and achievements into a simple to use, Its its just a service that makes development easier not really a social community like Facebook . the...
View ArticleStu
I think the fact that Apple restricts access to necessary functions is one of the reasons why iPhone will suffer. they protect their turf and say it is for the security and safety of their users but it...
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