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Windows Phone 7 not helping Microsoft mobile market share
You would think that when a company releases a new mobile operating system, it would do well since everybody likes brand new things. Well, it looks like Microsoft isn’t receiving the reception it was hoping for. According to the latest statistics released by ComScore, Microsoft has taken a hit in the mobile market share instead of getting a boost from the release of Windows Phone 7. From October 2010 to January 2011, the period when WP7 was first released, Microsoft lost 1.7% of their smartphone subscriber share! From the statistics, it shows that people who were on Windows Mobile have moved on to other operating systems instead of WP7, and the amount of new WP7 users obviously couldn’t make up for this exodus. But a lot of people couldn’t obtain a WP7 device because it is only available on 2 carriers on the moment (Sprint and Verizon will have WP7 phones later this year) and some people have been holding out for the “NoDo” update. Well, the year has only begun so let’s see if Microsoft can make up for their lackluster debut.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.