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ComScore: Android up, RIM down, water wet
Stop us (oh, oh, oh stop us) if you've heard this one before, but in the world of cellphone market share: nothing's changed -- or at least almost nothing. The quarterly data from ComScore say you all still love Android and iOS only slightly more than you used to. Of the 91.4 million smartphones in the US, Google gained the 3.1 percent of the market that RIM lost, and is now inching toward controlling half the nation's phones with 46.9 percent, whilst Apple swallowed the modest gains that Microsoft and Symbian lost. Samsung remains top manufacturer in a report where the only surprise is that 72.6 percent of users send text messages, so what do the other 27.4 percent do when they've been delayed or way-laid? [Thanks, Wilson]
iTunes welcomes The Smiths
Some bands are bigger than others, it's true, but stop me if you think you've heard this one before: a major British act, long absent from the iTunes store, has appeared with its full catalog for sale. No, it's not The Beatles -- it's the delicious sounds of Johnny Marr and Morrissey in The Smiths. If you came of age in the 1980s, The Smiths might be just as important to your musical upbringing as The Beatles were for a previous generation of rock fans. For me, this is a great chance to retire those ancient cassette copies of Meat is Murder and Strangeways, Here We Come. While a greatest-hits compilation from The Smiths was previously available, the band's Ping page announced the rest of the releases earlier this week. Thanks to reader Eric for the heads-up.
