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Call of Duty Elite mobile apps for iOS out today

by Mike Schramm (Jan 10th, 2012)

Activision has announced that its Call of Duty Elite mobile apps are arriving on iOS today -- they should be available for download from the App Store before long. The apps do require you to be registered to the Elite service (which works in conjunction to track all of your stats from the ...

Talking Points Memo sees Windows visitors decline, Mac and iOS users soar

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 27th, 2011)

The progressive left-leaning political news site Talking Points Memo issued an interesting set of (non-partisan) statistics that shows just how much the share of total devices running Microsoft Windows has declined in the last five years. As you can see from the chart above, in 2006 78% of ...

Study: 2/3 of tablet users play games on the device

by Mike Schramm (Oct 14th, 2011)

ComScore has released a new study of the habits of tablet users, and it's interesting to note that like smartphones, tablet devices are more often running games than not. 67% of tablet users report that they're playing games on the devices at least once in the last month, and almost a quarter ...

Spotify iPhone users jump after US launch

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

Here's an interesting stat I think tells a bigger tale: Onavo is a service for iPhone which claims to shrink your data as it goes in and out, and that service has been monitoring data coming back and forth from its users' iPhones. Spotify, as you probably know, is a music cloud service that ...

Bungie releases free iOS app

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2011)

Game developer Bungie (the folks behind the Halo series, originally scheduled for release on Mac but also the game that eventually became the keystone of Microsoft's game console) has released an official iPhone app, just in time for the company's 20th anniversary. Bungie Mobile is available ...

iPhone 4 rocketing to the top of Flickr's camera list

by Steven Sande (Apr 18th, 2011)

It's no surprise that the iPhone 4 is not only a popular smartphone, but also a well-liked digital camera. The 5-megapixel back camera doesn't have the highest pixel count of all smartphone cameras, and the specifications of that camera don't hold a candle to many of the digital SLRs and ...

World of Goo for iPad outsells the Mac, PC, Linux, Wii, Xbox versions

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2011)

Developer 2D Boy makes the popular World of Goo game, which they recently released on the iPad, and the official blog has a long writeup about the iPad version from creation to release. 2D Boy originally planned to release the game on the iPhone, but couldn't get it to work right, so when the iPad ...

Bump study: 90% of iOS users run 4.X

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2011)

Bump, the folks behind that iPhone app that allows you to quickly and easily exchange contacts, released a set of stats about its users that says almost 90% of iOS device owners are already running some version of iOS 4.0 or above. Bump reportedly has over 25 million downloads, so we are talking ...

2.8 million downloads for Gun Bros, 7.3 million for Zombie Farm

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2010)

I am anxiously awaiting some stats on this past week's releases in the App Store -- over the past two weeks, we've seen some gigantic games released for iOS, and yet familiar names like Cut the Rope, Angry Birds, and Fruit Ninja are still topping the charts (along with some big EA titles benefiting ...

iPad leads gadget search queries in Google's 2010 Zeitgeist report

by David Quilty (Dec 13th, 2010)

Surrounded by the likes of singer Justin Bieber, video chat site Chatroulette and rapper Nicki Minaj, the iPad was was among the top Google search engine queries for 2010 according to the annual Google Zeitgeist report. The report is an indicator about what Google users were searching for ...

Survey: 32% of iPad owners have never downloaded an app [Update: 9%]

by Mike Schramm (Oct 21st, 2010)

This is a fascinating little stat that echoes a few anecdotal statements I've heard before. Nielsenwire is claiming that a full 32% of iPad owners have never actually downloaded an app on the device, with another 5% only downloading free apps. That's a pretty crazy figure when you think about it -- ...

Apple: Mac sales could sustain a Fortune 500 company by itself

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 20th, 2010)

One in five PCs sold in the United States is a Mac, making up 20.67% of U.S. consumer market share, and bringing in triple the amount of money the Mac has earned since fiscal year 2005. That's the amazing number that Tim Cook, Apple's COO, shared at the beginning of today's "Back to the Mac" ...

TUAW's Daily App: Dayta

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2010)

There are lots of apps on the App Store for tracking numbers, like your weight, your golf score, and how many hours you've worked lately, but Dayta serves as one solution for all of those. You can simply create stats however you like, and then track them to your heart's content. You can export them ...

Steam releases Mac stats, share drops to 5%

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Steam has released its latest hardware survey results, and there's both good and bad news for us Mac gamers. The bad news first: Mac usage of the gaming service has apparently leveled off since the big debut a few months ago, and while the Mac share was originally around 8%, it appears the novelty ...

OkCupid: iPhone users have more sex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2010)

I've been a huge fan of social dating site OkCupid's OkTrends blog for a while now. They're constantly sharing data (anonymized, of course) from their social site about what people find attractive and interesting in each other. The latest post has some fun information about cameras -- ...