By EJ Afzelius
In my last post, I may have been a little… hmm, shall we say bleak? Yeah, bleak. Gloom and doom! Oh woe is me no more 4DSs and PS5s blah blah blah. Sony and Nintendo’s market share in the portable department has plummeted as naggingly reported in the last 12 months, so no surprise. There are also rumors however, that either Microsoft or Sony may be bowing out of the console race completely as early as this coming E3. I call bulldung on that, but yes, gamers can smell it. The face of gaming is in the process of painfully shifting, and the evil fat benefactors are grinning and laughing behind their filled coffers and roasted martians (rich bastards). Or are they? ‘Cause as I 
imagine it, they’re busy taking off their preferred smartgadget’s silicone covers and slapping their competition with it. “I say, I say mine is smarter than yours so take that! Ser! (Slap, Spit).” Then they take it out back and Street Fighter it out… in their own homes like true nerds (SF4 Volt will be online multiplayerable).
Yup, there’s a @$^& measuring contest going on in the world of smart gadget gaming and this is the yearly call to arms for your preferred OS. Who’s longer? Bigger? Better? Smarter? Let’s throw some numbers around shall we? Last year 60% of the total portable gaming share went to the all-in-one gadgets with Android and iOS selling a butt load of apps. Hence all the ra ra simbumba for the new Leaders in dorkware. But who’s got the edge between those two? Well, it’s obviously Apple, whose market boasts more than 500,000 apps compared to Android’s 300,000. Developers believed what their numbers used to say and that is, if you make something for both platforms, the iOS version will earn them more money. This has resulted in iOS receiving more than 70% of new apps every quarter.
Well that seems to be changing. Some developers like Rubicon are enjoying Android app sales that 
match their iOS earnings. This is a signal that another shift may occur and here’s the number you should pay attention to, 31%. That’s Android’s share in the global smartphone market. Apple only has 17%. With billions of downloads, can we call 2012 the year that Android finally swallows the fruit? Well hold on there. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have already called foul and here’s why. Symbian also owns 31% and Windows phone’s got 5. With Nokia fully adopting the Windows platform, that’s a potential lead in the race right there! Windows has got some exciting stuff tying in with their Xbox Live service. EA is also developing 10 exclusive games just for Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows phone, a device no one expected to be a serious gaming machine (not me anyway).
So yeah, a contender just flew out of left field, but whoever reaches homeplate first is up in the air. All I know is, for portable gamers, this could be the most exciting year yet. Or the most depressing. Smartphones… (ptui!) Until I get my holograms these new fangled gadgets can suck it!
[Tukkolabs]
No, I’m Smarter Than You!
By EJ Afzelius
In my last post, I may have been a little… hmm, shall we say bleak? Yeah, bleak. Gloom and doom! Oh woe is me no more 4DSs and PS5s blah blah blah. Sony and Nintendo’s market share in the portable department has plummeted as naggingly reported in the last 12 months, so no surprise. There are also rumors however, that either Microsoft or Sony may be bowing out of the console race completely as early as this coming E3. I call bulldung on that, but yes, gamers can smell it. The face of gaming is in the process of painfully shifting, and the evil fat benefactors are grinning and laughing behind their filled coffers and roasted martians (rich bastards). Or are they? ‘Cause as I
imagine it, they’re busy taking off their preferred smartgadget’s silicone covers and slapping their competition with it. “I say, I say mine is smarter than yours so take that! Ser! (Slap, Spit).” Then they take it out back and Street Fighter it out… in their own homes like true nerds (SF4 Volt will be online multiplayerable).
Yup, there’s a @$^& measuring contest going on in the world of smart gadget gaming and this is the yearly call to arms for your preferred OS. Who’s longer? Bigger? Better? Smarter? Let’s throw some numbers around shall we? Last year 60% of the total portable gaming share went to the all-in-one gadgets with Android and iOS selling a butt load of apps. Hence all the ra ra simbumba for the new Leaders in dorkware. But who’s got the edge between those two? Well, it’s obviously Apple, whose market boasts more than 500,000 apps compared to Android’s 300,000. Developers believed what their numbers used to say and that is, if you make something for both platforms, the iOS version will earn them more money. This has resulted in iOS receiving more than 70% of new apps every quarter.
Well that seems to be changing. Some developers like Rubicon are enjoying Android app sales that
match their iOS earnings. This is a signal that another shift may occur and here’s the number you should pay attention to, 31%. That’s Android’s share in the global smartphone market. Apple only has 17%. With billions of downloads, can we call 2012 the year that Android finally swallows the fruit? Well hold on there. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have already called foul and here’s why. Symbian also owns 31% and Windows phone’s got 5. With Nokia fully adopting the Windows platform, that’s a potential lead in the race right there! Windows has got some exciting stuff tying in with their Xbox Live service. EA is also developing 10 exclusive games just for Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows phone, a device no one expected to be a serious gaming machine (not me anyway).
So yeah, a contender just flew out of left field, but whoever reaches homeplate first is up in the air. All I know is, for portable gamers, this could be the most exciting year yet. Or the most depressing. Smartphones… (ptui!) Until I get my holograms these new fangled gadgets can suck it!
[Tukkolabs]