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What Lies Ahead As Android Phones and the iPhone Square Off in China?

Slowly but surely, Apple has been trying to crack the Chinese market with the iPhone. There have been many obstructions, and China Mobile has already expressed its desire to push Android-based phones, such as Dell's, throughout the country. As MacNewsWorld reported late last week, though, the iPhone's slow boat to China has finally arrived. China Unicom, the second largest wireless provider in China, announced on Friday that it will start carrying iPhones in this year's third quarter. Is there likely to be a smackdown between Android-based phones and the iPhone in China, and how free and open will China's government allow cutting-edge smartphones to be?


Apple's App Store and Android Market Are Big Businesses

GigaOm has a very interesting report up today on the actual size of the app economies for both the iPhone and Android. There are some fairly shocking data points, which come from mobile advertising startup AdMob, and they illustrate that both Apple's App Store and Android Market are big businesses, with lots of promise. These shockers include: 1) there are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple?s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year; 2) the Android Market brings in about $5 million a month or $60 million a year; and 3) each month, Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps. I agree with the GigaOm post that the Android numbers will probably rise sharply as many new handsets arrive before the end of this year. It's also interesting to think how big these businesses will be in 10 years. Check out more here.?


Is Nokia Set to Demo a Maemo Phone, and Is it Faltering in Smartphones?

As GigaOm and this Reuters report note, there is talk that Nokia will show a Maemo phone at next week's Nokia World show in Germany. Maemo, of course, is Nokia's long-standing operating system for its line of Internet Tablets, and is based on Debian GNU/Linux. However, some are interpreting the possibility as yet another sign that Nokia's focus on an open source Symbian OS is wavering.

The Symbian OS has half the global smartphone market, but Reuters quotes Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics as saying: It looks like Maemo, or at least a Linux derivative of some description, will play a key role for Nokia in high-end (products) over the next year or two. If that's true, I have to question Nokia's overall prospects in the smartphone market.



A Grab Bag of Great Tips for Safari

While many people don't think of Safari as an open source browser, it is based on the same open source WebKit rendering engine found in Google Chrome, and depends on improvements to WebKit to stay competitive. In fact, it's a good example of how polished a hybrid application--straddling the open source and proprietary software arenas--can become. Safari is the browser of choice for many Mac users, and if you're one of them, TheAppleBlog has some truly great tips for customizing and supercharging it. You can find out about full screen browsing, how to enhance Safari with the free Glims extension, easy ways to block annoying ads, and more. Check out the tips found here, and here.