GigaOM reports that Major League Baseball is expanding support for Apple’s Passbook app, announcing that the digital tickets will be accepted at 13 stadiums this season, up from just four last season. MLB was one of Apple’s launch partners for Passbook in September, with mobile tickets accepted by the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals. They are being...
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Ken Segall, the creative director behind the Think Different campaign and author of Insanely Simple, a book about his experiences of that time, has suggested Apple is losing its way in its current advertising approaches, with Samsung taking full advantage. In a blog entry on his website, Observatory, Segall argues that Apple has stuck to its product-based ads while Samsung has been investing...
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Back in November, research firm Strategy Analytics estimated that Samsung’s Galaxy S III had topped the list of worldwide smartphone shipments for the third quarter of 2012, taking advantage of a lull in iPhone 4S sales ahead of the iPhone 5 launch to claim the crown. Unsurprisingly, the firm’s latest figures published today find that Apple easily reclaimed the title for the fourth...
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Screenshots alleged to be of a forthcoming Samsung smartwatch have been posted on the Korean message board Ruliweb (via SlashGear), suggesting possible competition for the rumored Apple “iWatch”. It is unclear whether the watch will be a self-contained product, or rely on a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone. The claimed code name of the project, Altius, is causing some...
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Gartner’s quarterly Market Share Analysis: Mobile Phones, Worldwide report shows that Samsung and Apple continue to dominate the smartphone market, with more than 52% of the market between them, but that Android’s market share grew dramatically year-on-year while iOS saw a decline. Samsung’s Q4 2012 smartphone sales totalled 64.5 million handsets, up 85.3% on the previous...
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