Friday, July 27, 2012

Samsung Revenues

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Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on smartphones
rampant sales of its smartphones .... Apple shipped 26 million iPhones in the June quarter .... Samsung is estimated to have increased sales to around 50 million.
The next iPhone is going to have a bigger screen. Apple learned that from Samsung. The next iPad is going to be smaller. Apple learned that from Nexus 7.

Samsung Galaxy S III is the new standard for smartphones.

These court battles are nonsensical.
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No Facebook Phone

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Coming straight from the horse's mouth.

Zuckerberg: It Wouldn't Make Sense For Us To Make A Phone
Facebook is the most-used app on all platforms, so there's little need to get into hardware.
Iterating on the app, keep building a better app, encouraging the use of Facebook Connect as the way people sign into apps: those are better things to be doing.

It is better to be the top app on all platforms than to descend into hardware.

But this might not be Facebook's last word on the topic.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Facebook's Money Problem

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Facebook's Earnings Report Underscores Its Challenges
the decelerating growth of its advertising business, which accounted for 85 percent of its $3.7 billion in revenue ..... in the last quarter, Facebook got $1.28 in revenue from each of its users, which is barely changed from the same time last year. .... the average revenue per user in the U.S. and Canada jumped to $3.20 from $2.84 a year ago
There is no relationship at Facebook between user growth and revenue growth. And that seems to be the problem. Long term I am not worried. There are several ways to monetize Facebook. Facebook has to figure out Facebook-unique ways to make money.
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A Stealing Kind Of App

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For all intents and purposes your mobile operating system should be more infected than Windows. If it is not it is because the bad guys simply have not had the time to zero in.

There is much more room for mischief in the mobile space.

Google Approves an App that Steals All Your Data
an app that stealthily steals personal data such as photos and contacts ..... Google needs to improve both its app-scanning system and its Android operating system. ...... SMS Bloxor was finally pulled from the store after the researchers uploaded a version that continuously sent all the data from a device back to the app's creators, without ever stopping. ..... app stores will soon be subject to significant criminal efforts .... the coming wave. ..... most examples of mobile malware consist of targeted attacks against individuals, such as CEOs that might have access to valuable corporate data. "Round the corner is going to be some more widespread catastrophe that's could hit tens of thousands or millions of users."
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