Techmeme: iOS developer survey: 47% are on Android too, only 7% on Mac (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Fortune)

9:05 PM ET, June 13, 2011

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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:

iCloud and Apple's truth: can you win if you don't play? — Last Monday, Steve Jobs debuted one of Apple's boldest products to the world, iCloud. At long last, the brains in Cupertino seemed as if they were set to fully embrace the internet and its inherent, omnipresent power.

Discussion: Daring Fireball, mocoNews, Technologizer, @nivi, TidBITS, parislemon, The Next Web, techno.blog and Guardian

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition — Since last week's unveiling of Apple's new iCloud service and the transitioning of the company's existing MobileMe service into iCloud, many users have been wondering about the fate of some of the MobileMe services that were not mentioned in the transition discussion.

Discussion: GigaOM, PC World, TUAW, The Brooks Review, Fortune, CNET News, Mashable!, The Register, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk, everythingiCafe and iGadgetsReport

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iCloud.com to Offer at Least Some of MobileMe's Web Functionality

Discussion: MacNN and The Next Web

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

HP's Big Shakeup: Bocian and Mott Out; Livermore Steps Down, Joins Board — Our sources telling us that Hewlett-Packard was on the verge of a another big executive shake-up were correct, but they only had part of the story. As reported earlier today, Peter Bocian, the chief administrative officer is out, effective immediately.

Discussion: Computerworld, PC World, The Register, CNET News, BetaNews, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, The Tech Trade, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily and Electronista

Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:

Is Hewlett-Packard Launching Its Own Cloud Service? — While the music industry focuses on Apple, Google and Amazon, Hewlett-Packard is quietly making plans-again-for its own locker-based service. Multiple sources at the major labels report that the discussions are heating up.

Discussion: mocoNews, Engadget, Electronista, SlashGear, I4U News, MacRumors, Geek.com, PreCentral.net, SAI, PE Hub Blog and parislemon

Verne G. Kopytoff / Bits:
Top Executive at H.P. Steps Down

Discussion: HP

BBC:

Spanish police website hit by Anonymous hackers — A member of Spain's Technological Investigation Board displays an Anonymous mask — The website of Spain's national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous. — The attack on the site was carried …

Discussion: Examiner, Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GMSV, The Register, Pulse2, Gawker, GamePolitics News and Eurogamer

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Turkish Police Detain 32 Suspects Allegedly Linked to Anonymous

Discussion: Examiner, BGR, Reuters, SlashGear, datasecurityblog.wordpress.com, Computerworld, Technologizer, Neowin.net, Security Watch and Softpedia News

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

At 5 Million Users, It's Hard Not To View Instagram Through A Rose-Colored Filter — When we first previewed Instagram nine months ago, most of the initial comments predicted it would be dead on arrival. To say those people were wrong is a vast understatement. And Instagram now has five million ways to prove it.

Discussion: SAI and SAI, Thanks:alexia

Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Why Kevin Systrom Turned Down Zuckerberg, Left Twitter To Start Instagram

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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Next iPhone reaches final testing stage, Verizon likely won't support 3G FaceTime this year — A previously accurate Apple source has told 9to5Mac some interesting information regarding what 2011 holds for the iPhone and Apple's popular FaceTime video chat service.

Tarmo Virki / Reuters:

Samsung to end 14-year Nokia smartphone reign: Nomura — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura said on Monday. — In the next quarter Nomura also sees …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Rojadirecta Sues US Government, Homeland Security & ICE Over Domain Seizure — This morning, we wrote about the list of sites that ICE knew was challenging its domain seizures, and some people complained that there still were no details. There's been a lot happening behind the scenes …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Threat Level

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot's New Startup Canvas — Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. Moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures led a $3 million series A round of funding …

Discussion: Union Square Ventures, Betabeat, VentureBeat, NYConvergence.com and SAI

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Comcast Bringing Skype To Some Of Your TVs, “Soon” — Interesting. Comcast plans to let some of its customers use Skype on their TV sets. — The two companies say Comcast subscribers equipped with special gear will be able to use the Web video messaging service on their HD sets “soon.”

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Microsoft Blog, CNET News, GeekWire, The Seattle Times, Gizmodo and SlashGear

Horace Dediu / asymco:

iTunes now costs $1.3 billion/yr to run — The iTunes store continues to grow. The data that Apple published in the last event included the following: — 15 Billion iTunes song downloads — 130 million book downloads — 14 billion app downloads — $2.5 billion paid to developers

Discussion: AppleInsider, SAI, TUAW and MacStories

Rocky Agrawal / TechCrunch:

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse — Editor's note:This guest post is part of an in-depth series looking at the daily deal industry written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. Read Part I, Part II, and Part III also. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster.

Discussion: Screenwerk, Thanks:sidharthdassani

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

iOS developer survey: 47% are on Android too, only 7% on Mac — Perhaps not surprisingly, because they were all at an Apple conference, 100% prefer iOS — Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster attended Apple's (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference …

Discussion: Examiner, AppleInsider, eWeek, 9 to 5 Mac, PadGadget, Fast Company, App Advice, MacRumors, TUAW, Electronista, MacStories, SAI, Tech Trader Daily and MobileBurn.com

Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:

Boxee for PC, Mac, Ubuntu Getting Fall Update — Good news for PC/Mac/Linux users - we are working to update the downloadable software version of Boxee and hope to have builds available this fall so you can enjoy the updated browser, improved playback, and lots more content that are currently available on the Boxee Box.

Discussion: eHomeUpgrade, MacStories, SlashGear, Mashable!, Engadget and Electronista

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

All four Lodsys patents now also challenged in Southern California by anti-virus software maker ESET — There are now five Lodsys-related lawsuits. Lodsys itself has already filed three infringement lawsuits against a total of 27 defendants (against Brother, HP, Samsung others in February …

Discussion: CNET News and mocoNews

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced — Fifty percent of iPhone owners who have iPhones swapped at the Genius Bar have never plugged them into a computer to backup or sync. That's according to a “little birdie” that former Macworld Associate Editor David Chartier (now at AgileBits) knows.

Discussion: AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, One FPS, iGadgetsReport, iClarified and Electronista

Neal Mohan / The Official Google Blog:

Helping publishers get the most from display advertising with Admeld — (Cross-posted on the DoubleClick Publisher Blog) — It's now clear that investments in new technologies, new ad formats and improved buying and selling processes are helping to grow the display advertising pie.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, AdExchanger.com, Search Engine Land, Bits, Adotas, PE Hub Blog, CNET News, PC Magazine, paidContent, WebProNews and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »

Alastair Sharp / Reuters:

Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms — (Reuters) - Google should not be able to buy thousands of patents belonging to bankrupt Nortel Networks under current sale terms, Microsoft said on Monday, the deadline for bids in an closely watched auction.

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Facebook Expected To File For $100 Billion IPO This Year — The long-awaited Facebook IPO looks like it will come as early as the first quarter of 2012, CNBC's Kate Kelley reports citing sources. — Facebook could file its S-1 to the SEC in October. — Goldman is in the “pole position” to underwrite the IPO, says Kelly.

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Moving Into Social Web, Menlo Ventures Adds Shervin Pishevar — Menlo Ventures had brought in a partner from the outside the firm just twice in its 35-year history. — Shervin Pishevar — an entrepreneur and angel investor with no formal venture capital experience …

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