Windows Phone cracks 100k apps, Samsung dropping $2bn on processors, also loving being in a patent war with Apple, and hard drives still on the route to recovery.
- Windows Phone Wednesday; 100,000 apps published to the Marketplace – Windows Phone reaches the 100k app mark faster than Android and 4 months slower than iOs adding about 300 apps per day to the ecosystem.
- Samsung ready to invest in next-gen chip production: here comes 20nm and even 14nm – Samsung is looking to match Intel with their pace of innovation and shrinking of the dye, looking to get down to 20nm and 14nm in the next 2 years.
- Samsung: Our Patent War With Apple Is Great For Our Business – A Samsung executive says that their legal battle with Apple has increased their profile and brand awareness with consumers more than it has hurt them.
- Hard drive market might not fully recover until 2014 – With 2 of the big hard drive manufacturers, Seagate and Western Digital still making serious cash on the wave of the HDD crisis of last year, prices look set to be inflated until 2014 according to one analyst.