The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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Well, that's not entirely unreasonable.
"Desktop" can refer to a horizontal (as opposed to tower) computer, any non-portable computer, the Windows desktop with the icons, a windowing operating environment itself, or a few other things.
"Digital TV" can mean ATSC broadcasts, a TV with some sort of digital filter or processing, a TV that accepts ATSC broadcasts, any non-analog bitstream-based private broadcasting (cable, satellite), any type of HD programming, or microwave broadcasting.
Technology-related terminology is often needlessly confusing. The article brings up FireWire/i.Link/Lynx as a good example.
don't forget ieee1394
Right, but companies are already calling things by these names instead of their technical specifications to make it easier for consumers. You're telling me this dude's brain wouldn't explode if shelves just had boxes labeled with IEEE xxx.xx devices?
And they have duplicate products on single standards because of trademarks which are supposed to protect the consumer by clarifying who is making the product.
That's why context clues and reading comprehension are your friends.
Ah see I had a theory on this ( read it other day) in that as this is fro ma British survey we don't actually use the term digital TV that often. Normally it's Freeview, or Sky for satellite and Virgin for cable. yep we only have one of each. So they get referred to their brand names "do you have Virgin". o h British equivelant of Tivo/DVR/timeshifting would be Sky+. Even though you can get Freeview DVR's they get described as "recording it liek Sky+ does". VOD is Iplayer, or "like Iplayer".
It just seem's with tech it's easier to latch onto the company that does the tech, not the tech term itself. Social networking is "like myspace/facebook", it's just apparently the way tech lingo has evolved in the UK.