Posts tagged android
Flash 10.1 snubbing non-ARMv7 Android devices, too? (update: yes)
Feb 26th
The same Adobe employee who mentioned on Adobe’s official forums that would be blowing right past Windows Mobile 6.5 made another notable comment, too: on Android, they’ll be conveniently overlooking devices that aren’t based on an ARMv7 core like a Snapdragon or OMAP3 — in other words, pretty much every device of consequence except the , , , Motorola / , and . At this point, we’re starting to get a little suspicious — this is the same company that last year, after all, and there’ll be no shortage of devices using Qualcomm’s MSM7×27 line of chipsets in 2010 — so we’re holding out for some additional verification on this. Granted, forum mod Jochem van Dieten refers to the commenter specifically as an Adobe employee and he’s got a identifying him as a product manager, but this is pretty wild news if accurate. We’ll update you as we know more.
Update: Indeed, PC Magazine that Adobe’s current verbiage is that Flash 10.1 is going to require Cortex A8 “or better.” So much for the “open” in , eh?
originally appeared on on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our .
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Survey says: Android users mostly male, webOS not just for women, iPod touch for kids
Feb 26th
Jump down off that and holster your brew Droid owners, the stats are in for smartphone gender preferences. The numbers reported above are based on a AdMob survey of 963 total respondents consisting of 318 Android, 244 iPhone, 356 iPod touch and 45 webOS users in english speaking countries. According to the data collected between 5 February to the 16 February, men make up a whopping 73% of all Android device users. Even webOS, that smartphone OS from Palm that’s supposedly aimed at the ladies carries a 58% male to 42% female preference, almost exactly the same as the iPhone. While it would be easy to suggest that Verizon’s advertising campaign for Droid (one of the Android handsets) helped skew the demographics, it doesn’t explain why its Palm ads failed to skew the webOS numbers. Perhaps it’s an unspoken man on robot love that we all recognize as truth but choose not to discuss openly for fear of reprisal? Or maybe it’s a lack of recognition for what Asian marketing geniuses figured out long ago: a device has to be and with just a to woo the more fickle tastes of the female demographic. Uh, yeah.
Also of interest is the Age by Platform data that shows 78% of iPod touch users are below the age of 25 compared to 25% of iPhone users and 24% of webOS and Android users. In fact, 65% of the platform are just 17 years of age or younger. That would explain the demand for all the biscuit floating apps. See the chart after the break.
originally appeared on on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:01:00 EST. Please see our .
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