Imeem loves Android and iPhone ; slams BlackBerry
Streaming music service Imeem has revealed that it now has more than one million users of its mobile applications (on iPhone and Android), although it’s the Android version that the company seems most excited about.
Android listening sessions are more than twice as long as on iPhone, says CEO Dalton Caldwell, and the app is now on two out of every three Android handsets – with a third of Android users new to Imeem.
What about BlackBerry, which has been aggressively trumpeting its suitability for music apps this year? “It’s a total pain to install anything on the BlackBerry,” says Caldwell. Ouch.
Tags: android, Blackberry, imeem, iphone
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“It’s a total pain to install anything on the BlackBerry,” eh? It’s no more difficult (and actually easier in some cases) than installing things on a Windows PC. You have a .jad file and one or more .cod file(s), throw them in a directory, and open the .jad on the BlackBerry.
Or even easier: You have an .alx file, and one or more (usually just one) .cod file(s), and you feed the .alx to your sync software for automatic installation.
What would he rather have? That to install apps, you download a fake hard disk (as a disk image), mount it so that the OS sees a hard disk that doesn’t exist, and then you copy some folder from it to your machine, while the folder just looks like a single item?
And what about starting said program? You double click the folder icon to start it, while the OS, behind your back, loads the real executable file from the Contents/MacOS/ subfolder?
PS: This here really does describe application installation and launching under Mac OS X. Programs are actually folders with “.app” at the end, e.g. “Firefox” is “Firefox.app”, and contain various subfolders. The actual binaries are stored in “Contents/MacOS” from there. So when you click on your “Firefox” icon, the OS is actually loading “Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin” to run your browser.