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ComScore found that six brands -- Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay -- built nine of the top ten mobile apps. Itrsquo every developerrsquo dream: Win fame and fortune for creating a mobile app that sells like wildfire.Unless you work for a huge established company, keep dreaming.ComScor
polene cyme e released a U.S. Mobile App Report this week and made some interesting discoveries. It found that nine of the top 10 most used apps were built by six huge tech companies: Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay. If you cast a slightly wider net, the scene starts to look slightly better but still not great. Those same six brands account for 16 of the top 25, and 24 of the top 50 apps, ComScore found.At the same time that those giants dominate the mobile app landscape, the majority of people donrsquo;t even bother to try anything new. ComScore found that 65.5% of smartphone users download zero new apps each month. Therersquo this small category of people mdash; 7% of smartphone users mdash; that downloads like crazy, accounting for half the monthly app downloads and skewing the average up.Itrsquo not that people arenrsquo;t using apps. ComScore found that seven of every eight minutes on mobile devices is spent in an app. One possible explanation for why most people donrsquo;t download new apps, including those from little-known startups, is that the app shopping experience is pretty poor. No o
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owala tumbler that Microsoft relies upon a diverse ecosystem that includes open source to satisfy customers Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the companyrsquo embrace of the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for altruistic purposes.The presentation by Microsoftrsquo Stuart McKee, who holds the title of national technology officer for the United States, continued a pattern in recent years that has seen Microsoft publicly embracing the open source movement and even funding it.[ Read InfoWorld blogger Zack Urlockerrsquo take on Microsoftrsquo open source glasnost. ] [Microsoft feels] strongly that Microsoftrsquo success has been based on the fact that we can run a lot of diverse technologies on the Microsoft platform including open source, McKee said. Microsoft has had a contentious relationship with open source proponents but things are really changing, he said.McKee, who focuses on governmental customers for Microsoft, offered his perspectives in a keynote speech at the OSBC Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco.Microsoft contributes to open source efforts, including sponsoring Linux, he said. Microsoft has contributed 20,000 lines of device d
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