Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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There's other "advantages" for a studio to produce the THD hybrid disc. For one, it would (ultimately) lower their production/packaging costs by reducing their output from 2 different platform versions of the same title to 1. This also makes it easier for the studio to get the retailers to stock more catalog titles because shelf space is better maximized...a Best Buy would only have to use shelf space for THD instead of separate space for both HD DVD and Blu-ray as is the current practice.
What is incidious about the whole thing (THD) is Warner's claim that they would be helping out Joe Consumer with such releases. In fact, if Blu-ray wins, then Warner will still ensure that they will be making money on each sale of the THD releases based upon their patent portfolio covering DVD and HD DVD by forcing the Blu-ray consumer to pay that license (built into the price). If the whole market shifts to strictly Blu-ray, then Warner loses out on those monies which is why Warner supports HD DVD. They support Blu-ray for the CYA benefits of the often debated larger owner base.
The only reason in my mind why Warner has not gone to exclusively to THD would be manufacturing costs. They'd probably have to sell them currently above the cost of the DVD/HD DVD combo discs which would scare Joe Consumer even though if inflation adjusted, a $39.99 MRSP or more in 2007 (US) dollars is still certainly a better price than the cost of a movie on VHS was back in the late 1980s or early 1990s.