Sep 14th 09
Data Monday: Networked Consumer Devices
Recent numbers on the growth and use of networked consumer device platforms.
In the second quarter of 2009, netbooks accounted for 22.5% of all portable computer shipments worldwide. That is up from 5.6 percent a year ago. (source)
34% of students buying laptops are planning on purchasing small, lightweight netbooks. Another 49% are buying full-sized PC laptops. (source)
During 2nd Quarter 2009, the...
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Aug 9th 09
Monday Data: Nintendo Wii Declines
Apple’s iPhone is behind a sharp drop in nintendo’s profits, according to the gaming company.
nintendo said net profit for April to June 2009 was down 61 percent on the same period last year, while sales dropped 40 percent.
Sales of the wii dropped more than half compared to the same period last year to 2.2 million units during the quarter.
The drop was largest in the Americas, where...
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Aug 9th 09
Networked Consumer Device Platforms
In Digital Product Platforms, I outlined some of the technological capabilities seeing more common use through popular networked consumer device platforms. But what is a networked consumer device platform? Let’s break it down:
Networked: able to get itself online and thereby read and write Internet content or run services from “the cloud”
Consumer: designed and intended for everyday...
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Aug 9th 09
Why Care About Networked Consumer Device Platforms?
For digital product designers, networked consumer device platforms are here now and growing:
50 million Blackberry devices(not sure how many of them were true smart phones) sold (source)
26.4 million iPhone smart phones sold (source)
18 Android phones are due to come to market this year (source)
25,000 Palm Pre smart phones sold (source)
14.6 million netbooks were sold in 2008 (source)
Recent data...
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Aug 9th 09
New Program: Web App Summit 2009
We’re very excited about the 2009 Web App Summit, in Newport Beach, CA for April 19-22, 2009. This will be the must attend event for anyone building web applications!
We’re planning on launching the full site in January, but we wanted you to have a sneak peak at the great program we’ve put together. This year’s Summit is really exceptional and we think you’ll want to be...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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