Edible Apple

Google publicly backs HTC in its legal battle against Apple

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Comments Off on Google publicly backs HTC in its legal battle against Apple

Well it sure has been an interesting day for Apple legal hounds. Earlier today, Apple sued HTC for infringing on 20 of its patents that span everything from UI design down to OS architecture. A lot of people have chimed in stating that Apple’s lawsuit is more about its fight against Google’s Android OS than […]

iPhone 3GS smokes the Pre and G1 in Javascript benchmarks

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Comments Off on iPhone 3GS smokes the Pre and G1 in Javascript benchmarks

Medialets recently put the new iPhone 3GS to the test and measured its JavaScript execution in Webkit against the Palm Pre and the T-Mobile G1. After running the WebKit based JavaScript test known as SunSpider, Medialets found that the new iPhone 3GS was about 3x as fast as the Palm Pre and over 5x as […]

iPhone 3G S 54% faster than 3G model, 11% faster than the Pre

Saturday, June 20, 2009

1 Comment

Anandtech puts the new iPhone 3G S through a battery of performance tests and the results are quite impressive. Below find a chart comparing web page rendering speeds via Wi-Fi Application launch times are also significantly better on the iPhone 3G S.

Why Android has failed to take the world by storm

Thursday, April 23, 2009

0 Comments

Pardon the above joke, but I thought the following quote was pretty on point regarding Androids inability to live up to its initial hype. To date, there has only been one phone released running Android, and the one that does, the G1, has had a somewhat mediocre showing. Is it Android itself or the lack […]

Smartphones: The Race to 1 Million Sold

Thursday, January 29, 2009

0 Comments

Engadget posted this graphic earlier today encapsulating how fast each particular smartphone was able to sell 1 million units. Verizon has been trumping up the 1 million units sold figure all week for the BlackBerry Storm, but this chart helps put things into perspective. It took the Storm over 2 months to sell 1 million […]

iPhone outsells G1 Android by 6 to 1

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

0 Comments

According to a report from Morgan Stanley, the Android powered G1 phone from T-Mobile sold around 300,000 units this past quarter, about 1/6 of the number of iPhones that were sold. The figures, however, are somewhat misleading. For starters, the G1 didn’t come out until October, and more than that, the phone was tied to […]

T-Mobile G1 Pre-orders not as high as initially thought

Friday, October 17, 2008

0 Comments

Over the past 2 weeks, word has been spreading across the web that pre-orders of the new Android based G1 phone were reaching 1.5 million units. This number seemed almost too good to be true. The iPhone 3G, by way of comparison, sold only 1 million units in its first weekend, and it was subject […]