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Lay off Apple's Subscriptions model

This is an open letter, in response to Engadget's article titled Apple's new subscription policy 'smacks of greed', something that has irritated me, looking at hatred pointed at Apple, unjustly. Call me a fanboy or whatever, but let's look at the facts.

Apple has created an ecosystem of it's own, granted it's not open like others, but controlling its own ecosystem allows it to take ownership and responsibility for, which is their right, just like a parent is allowed to teach his or her kids in his or her way. Google on the other hand have allowed their os to roam free, and policies that are not really controlled or monitored, and it's their right to do.

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Skype video for Android? Yeah right

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I have noticed people winging over the past few months about why the Skype for iPhone is making strides in terms of what it is offering, such as video calls etc, while the Android version seems to remain stagnant and slow with it's releases.

People are screaming out that it's phones are just as capable, if not more capable than it's Apple counterpart in hardware to support video calls. Well droid-fans, got news for you. It's got nothing to do with hardware or software, and not even the fact that the iOS market is more lucrative, after all Skype for Linux is just as capable as it is on any other platform.

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iPhone User? 90% Chance You’re On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance | CrunchBase

“Gingerbread”. It’s great, easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon you all get to try it out. But the likelihood of that is pathetically small. In fact, don’t be surprised if Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” is out before most of you even get a chance to use Gingerbread — maybe even for phones as well as tablets.

With the iPhone, it’s a much different story. The likelihood that you are already running the latest version of the iOS software is much, much higher. In fact, it’s something around 90 percent, if some numbers shared by the CEO of Bump are to be believed.

David Lieb shared his numbers last week on a Quora thread entitled: What proportion of all iPhone owners use iOS4.* today?

With Bump, our download and usage base is so large that it should be a good statistical sample. Here’s our data from all Bump users between January 7 and January 10, 2011. *Note that this includes all iOS devices, not just iPhone as the question asks,” Lieb writes.

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