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iPod Touch Vs iPhone : Makes no sense, really?

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In this iPhone powered world (or atleast iPhone buzzed world), we won’t make a mistake of under-estimating the iPod touch which is also a major player in the market.

Recently, when the survey was made about the most sold gaming consoles iPod Touches were high on the charts and this Christmas iPod Touch has topped a lot of things.

App Store download stats

App Store download stats

First and foremost being the app store downloads. According to Flurry, which provides statistics about Application downloads on handheld devices, stated that Apple’s app store saw a 51% growth during Christmas and that there was about 1000% growth in downloads from iPod Touches!

This is why people around the web are telling that iPod Touch’s were the most gifted devices this Christmas (surely when compared to iPhone). It’s raining apps for Apple! [MobileCrunch]

There’s something else we had stated, referring to this. When Apple did add a video camera to iPod Nano and not to iPod Touch we said why they were doing this, so that they could sell a hell lot of iPod Touches this Christmas and then later add a camera and those who bought iPods would probably upgrade to the newer iPods soon. I am really looking forward to their January event!

Microsoft Suffers Revenue drop but People are Still Happy

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microsoftMicrosoft’s, Third Quarter Reports are out and the Companies Revenues is made public. 

What’s Funny to observe is that, Microsoft’s revenue has dropped about 14% but people seem to be happy about it. Why? Well, as per estimates Revenue was to be $12.32 but fortunately, it’s $12.92 which is not as worse as what was expected.. Well, guys at Microsoft would also be happy about this ;)

The Online Revenue drops from to $490 million well last year it was $520 million. The Major Blow is to the Windows Live Division which reports a drop from $4278 million last year to $2620 this year. The Entertainment Division has suffered just a loss of about $2 million. Servers and Tools Revenue was the only one which saw growth of 17 Million Dollars.

Here are the Reports,

Microsoft Revenue Reports

Microsoft Revenue Reports

Ok wait. Ads on Google Maps for iPhone?

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Well, Google has got into advertising by all the means possible. Videos, Flash Games. Now it’s turn for maps.

Recently Some Sponsored ads were spotted on the Google Maps app for iPhone. Along with your search query it will also provide a local sponsored link, for example below you see a image of when we search for “Sushi New York” we will get a local sponsored link  to a restaurant. 

Well, iPhone is the Default Maps App for iPhone and use this advertising technology may yield Google a lot of revenue and would be beneficial to Advertisers too! Google has expanded it’s advertising technology to all the fields and this is just one of them. 

Well, as per whispers around, Apple is also developing its own technology for Maps to replace Google Maps and then maybe it will bid a GoodBye to Google!

Thanks SearchEngineLand.