Turns out when you stop the ridiculous practice of comparing Android (an OS) to iPhone (a phone), and compare Android to iOS (another OS), Apple’s operating system outreaches Google’s by 59% in the US, or 37,868 phones to 23,763.

Now Android growth is still accelerating faster than iOS, and if nothing changes, Android will eventually eclipse iOS, but this remains a far better, saner, and more sensible comparison than the previously, convenient to the point of manipulative “phones that run Android vs. phones that run iOS” numbers we’ve been subjected to in the past. This is “devices that run most Android apps vs. devices that run most iOS apps”. It’s far more meaningful to everyone, from Apple and Google to developers.

"These data clearly illustrate the Apple ecosystem extends far beyond the iPhone," added Donovan. "Though it's frequently assumed that the Apple user base is composed of dedicated Apple 'fanboys', there's not a tremendous amount of overlapping mobile device access among these users. This of course has significant implications for the developer community as they consider the market potential in developing applications for different mobile platforms."

There are some other interesting numbers, like the percentage of smartphone to iPad owners. Check the link below for the details. Anyone surprised by the results, or just surprised it took this long to start seeing them?

[ComScore]

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Sent from my iPhone. Sent from my iPad. Thanks to some curt Steve Jobs customer support replies, these default iOS email signatures are nearly iconic now. But are you still using them?

Thankfully they don’t include carrier specific spam. (“Sent from my Verizon iPhone not on LTE but still fast and with really good coverage!” — can you imagine?) Annoyingly, they’re not very flexible either. You’re limited to one signature and one signature alone, regardless of how many accounts you have on your device. Hopefully Apple will let us assign individual email signatures for each account in the future (without the need for #TeamJailbreak, I know!) but until then…

What’s your email signature? Do you have different signatures on different devices? Or do you not use one?

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Thanks to Apple’s patent and trademark lawsuit against Samsung, we now get fresh iOS sales figures, a whopping 187 million of them including 108 million for iPhone, 19 million for iPad, and 60 million for the usually not broken-out iPod touch. These are as of March, 2011.

That’s a compelling install base, a largely binary-compatible one, and the reason Apple’s strategy lately has been more about platform than product.

[Asymco]

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• The BLOBS!: Help Brother Blob in his search for his lost family by travelling through six different terrains. Move Brother Blob by tilting the world around and sliding Brother Blob towards the exits in each level. His fluid like body can squeeze through tight gaps and he can even split into separate pieces. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• VideoMask: Getting bored of your face? Now you can have whatever face you want. Convert any image into a mask and record a video message using your own eyes and mouth. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• GoodReader: The super-robust PDF reader for iPad, now with data protection/encryption, the ability to flatten PDF annotations, and more! [$4.99, iPhone - iTunes link] [$4.99, iPad - iTunes link]

• GemCraft: Combine the magic powers of 8 gem types each with its own special abilities. Use gems in towers and traps to wipe out hordes of monsters preventing them from reaching your mana crystal. $1.99 – iTunes link]

• Trip Wake Up: Set the place on the basis of GPS coordinates at which to be awakened. Useful for commuters who like to sleep before going to work. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Vietnamese site Tinhte might just have gotten their hands on an official white iPhone 4 from Apple… running a previously unseen version of iOS! While it could also just be a clever set of Jailbreak tweaks, the video shows a new version of the multitasking fast app switching that replaces the dock icons in iOS 4 with miniature tiles of the actual apps, sort of like Exposé for iPhone.

Whether this is something destined for an interim iOS 4.4, our first hint at iOS 5, or some Jailbreak wizardry only Apple knows for sure. But it is interesting that it shows up on the anniversary of the Gizmodo iPhone 4 leak, isn’t it?

UPDATE: Per comments, yes there are some old icons but also some Apple internal test icons. Weird. Second video from the same source that shows off, among other things, 64GB, a new rendering for Folders, and Facebook built into settings.

Check out the video after the break and let us know, real, fake, or really fake? And if real, what do you think?

[Tinhte via Engadget]

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After years of rumors it looks like HBO is finally ready to throw their hat — and programing content like Game of Thrones and Sopranos — into the iPad and iPhone ring with HBO Go. It looks like it will have all their original hit shows and some movies as well, and work over Wi-Fi and 3G.

HBO Go will come via “participating TV providers” — whatever that means — perhaps as early as May 2. You’ll have to be an HBO subscriber to use it. No word yet on whether it will be available internationally — but we can dream, right?

Video after the break.

[YouTube via Engadget]

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As rumor last week, Sony has released a Crackle app, bringing a ton of free movies and TV shows. Up until this point the content was limited to Flash based streaming to Windows and Mac, PC's and certain models of Sony TV's.

Crackle is one of the fastest growing digital entertainment networks, offering quality movies and TV series from Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics and more

The app gives you access to full-length Hollywood movies and TV series with unlimited on demand viewing. You can browse genres or search by keywords and add content to a queue to watch later; either on your iOS device or online at Crackle.com.

Some of the movies listed as available are, Ghostbusters, Snatch, The Davinci Code and Sex Lies and Video Tape.  TV series cover S.W.A.T., The Three Stooges, Seinfield, What's Happening, Samurai X and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Specials and many more.

The app is free to download and is a universal binary so works with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Streaming of the content is allowed over WiFi and 3G.

If any of our readers pick this one up, let us know how it compares to the online service!

[Free – iTunes Link]

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Google has announced a small improvement to its Gmail mobile web experience. Starting today you now have an undo bar that allows you to undo certain actions.

Sometimes when I'm using Gmail on my phone, I delete a message by mistake or label it incorrectly. Sure I can fish the message out of my Trash or remove the label and apply the correct one, but that takes several steps. Even just a few seconds is usually enough time to catch those annoying mistakes.

The four undo actions allowed are archive, delete, add or remove a label, or move a message / conversation. When you carry out one of the actions, Gmail will display a yellow bar at the bottom of your screen with an undo option. The bar stays in position even when you navigate to other screens within the Gmail web app.

Do any of our readers use Gmail in mobile Safari? Is this a handy improvement? Let us know in the comments!

[Google Mobile Blog]

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Sync and backup your iPhone, iPod touch, and/or iPad to a laptop or small PC drive, starting to run low on disk space, and wondering how you can reclaim some of it? If you consider that iOS devices can hold anywhere from 8GB to 64GB of space, and that some of us have multiple iOS devices, all that data can add up. Even though iTunes will often do incremental backups, new devices, restoring as new, updated devices, or a lot of new content can create hefty backups, especially over the course of several months and years.

If you need to get some of that space back and you’re not afraid to delete files — and you should be afraid in many cases, so consider this expert/ninja-level only! — then follow on after the break!

I recently ran out of space on my laptop drive and, after investigating, discovered I had about 200+GB of iOS device backups taking up the largest slice of my storage pie. I’d never thought to look there, so I was surprised to say the least.

Now, over the last year or so I’ve synced a couple generations of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to my laptop, and had my iPhone replaced both this and the previous generation, for a total of 8 devices in the last 12 months. I’ve also restored several of them as new and radically changed their contents a couple times. That no doubt contributed to the size of my backup directory. Whether yours is that big or not is worth checking it.

Deleting backups in iTunes

Here’s how to delete backups inside iTunes

1. Open iTunes on your Mac or Windows PC
2. From the menu, Click on Preferences
3. Click on the Devices Tab
4. You’ll see a list of all the iOS devices backed up to iTunes, along with the data of the backup. Click on the one you want to delete.
5. Click on Delete Backup…
6. You’ll be prompted to confirm the deletion. Click Delete.
7. Repeat for any other backups you want to delete. Just remember not to remove all of them, or the most current ones, or you won’t be able to restore your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad until you backup again.

This is by far the easiest way to delete a single or a few backups if that’s all you want to do. However, if you’d rather delete a ton of them it can be tedious, and if you’d rather archive the backups to another drive or disk, you’re out of luck…

…unless you turn to the file system.

Where iTunes stores iOS backups

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backups
• Windows: ~\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

(If you’re new to computers, ~ represents your user directory, for example mine is HD/Users/Rene Ritchie/Library)

Inside those directories you’ll see a bunch of folders with seemingly random characters for names. You can also get info on them to see the relative sizes of the backups, which may help you determine which ones are eating up the most space.

Archive/Delete older backups

Deleting files is never without risk so think twice before you do it. Then think again. When you’re absolutely sure you’l never — not ever — need that information again, think a final time before deleting it.

If you have any doubt whatsoever, don’t remove the folders but copy them off to an external hard drive or burn them to a DVD so you can always copy them back later if you discover something you needed.

What I did was sort by last modified date, and then removed anything that was more than 2 months old. That gave me back about 150GB of space but still left me with about 70GB of backups. (Again, I’ve backed up over a half-dozen devices.)

Note: Don’t stop backing up!

Reading this, you might flirt with the idea of stopping iTunes backups to save disk space. Don’t. Backups exist for a reason. No one ever thinks they need backups until something bad happens, and it always does, and by then it’s always too late.

If you upgrade your device, if you update your firmware, if you swap out your device at an Apple Store, if you lose your device and get a replacement, if for any reason you need to restore that backup will make sure you have the same content you had when last you synched with iTunes. That might include messages, photos, and other personal information that doesn’t exist anywhere else and can never be replaced.

Make sure you backup and regularly.

Have any other space saving tips for us? Leave them in the comments!

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redsn0w 0.9.6rc13 is here and it brings with it the promise of an untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2 devices including iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3 and 4, and iPad 1. iPhone 4 will be coming as soon as a fix is made, and iPad 2 is still waiting on a new exploit (yes, we’re sad too.) According to the Dev-Team:

Only a few weeks after the 4.3.1 untether created by @i0n1c was released, Apple pushed out firmware 4.3.2. Thankfully, it appears Apple didn't have a chance to fix the hole used by @i0n1c's untether, so he ported his code over to 4.3.2's kernel. Today's redsn0w has been updated to include it.

Check out our complete iOS 4.3.2 untethered Jailbreak guide (updated from our 4.3.1 since the process is essentially unchanged) and if you need any help jump on into our Jailbreak Forum.

Are you apart of #teamjailbreak? Are you updating to 4.3.2 and giving the new redsn0w a try? Let us know how it works for you!

[Dev-Team, thanks @daveizzle!]

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