Something wrong with the AppleStore

“All of the top-ten-grossing apps in 2013 were over a year old,” says free-to-play design consultant Nicholas Lovell. “There is no other entertainment industry where month on month it’s the same things at the top of the charts – not for books, not for DVDs, not for movies.”

New “Designing Great Apps” Micro Site For iOS 7 Developers

Apple has just released a microsite (https://developer.apple.com/design/) that house a number of resources about designing for iOS7. 
Even There’s no new material on the site, it does pull together a key collection of resources in one spot

Ocuppy Flash

Thanks to Steve Jobs all the Flash nightmare is disappearing of Internet. But unfortunately there is already present, especially with these horribly noisy ads you get in some pages.

Fortunately Chrome has added an option to block Flash adds. This is buried in the configuration. Go to

Customize Google Chrome >Settings  > Content :

In the Plugins, change the radio button from Run automatically to Click to Play:

That's all. Now all these noisy ads are blocked automatically but if for some reason you want to activate (for example if you want to see a YouTube video) just click on it. Enjoy!

Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013

Here is a chart mapping about Apple R&D expenditures from 1995 to 2013:

And here is another chart about Apple expenditure as a % of net sales:

I don't know you but my first thought about the figures is:

• The R&D expenditure rocket following the return of Steve Jobs.
• The second chart  is more a reflection of Apple's astronomical revenue growth during that same time period.

Note: You can see the Apple SEC filling forms here: 

http://investor.apple.com

Apple's iPhone now represents 42% of smartphones owned in the US

Right now, Apple is leading market share (42 %), but Samsung is taking increasingly a larger share of the US market.
 Smartphone penetration continues to grow in America, reaching six in ten cell phone users in the fourth quarter of 2013. That was up from 52 percent of the mobile market in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Phil Schiller Tweets Link to Another Security Report Criticizing Android

Here is the tweet:

AppleMaps: How to share your location

In order to obtain your location coordinates in an easy way:

1. Open up Apple Maps on your iOS device
2. Select the blue icon in the bottom-left corner. This will pinpoint your current location within Maps.
3. Tap on the red pushpin to bring up additional details on your location.
4. Tap on "Share" in the upper-right-hand corner.
5. Select your preferred method of sharing. You can choose from Messages, Mail, Twitter and Facebook.