Lion Downloads Hits One Million Mark in A Day, Apple Announced

Earlier in the day, diTii reported that Apple's next generation Mac OS X Lion operating system has become the Top Paid app in Mac App Store. Now, the Cupertion company has just reported that "in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system." (emphasis added)

Lion Downloads Hits One Million Mark in A Day, Apple Announced

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FACEBOOK NUMBER ONE

Facebook is the number one seller of display advertising in the US according to research by eMarketer. It's expected to generate $2.19 billion in US display advertising revenue this year.

Facebook was in the top pack for a while, but this is the first time that it's going to take in more than either Google or Yahoo. This is due to both growth at Facebook and declines at Yahoo, which was previously number one.

Even more interesting (and a great bullish sign for Facebook and the internet generally), eMarketer says that agencies aren't taking from their display budget to increase their Facebook spend, but from non internet advertising, including TV. Agencies aren't "shifting from offline to online" but "shifting from offline to Facebook", mainly to drive people to sign up for brands' Facebook pages.

We've been waiting for years for around $40 billion to switch from newspaper and TV advertising to the internet to make it commensurate with time spend, and it seems Facebook is the big driver of that, although it's a much bigger opportunity. 

Add to that Facebook Credits and Facebook's next billion-dollar opportunity, commerce, and it seems pretty sure that Facebook's revenue and profits are sharply up and to the right.

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FACEBOOK NUMBER ONE

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Here's One Reason To Hate Amazon's Android App Store (AMZN, GOOG)

Here's a great example of how user experience is more important choice.

On the iPhone, you can only buy apps from one app store -- Apple's.

But a selection of Android marketplaces are popping up to fill holes in Google's own Android Marketplace.

For instance Amazon's Appstore for Android offers a curated selection of apps that Amazon has confirmed will work well. It also has better search than Google's Android Marketplace and lower prices on some apps -- Amazon even gives some paid apps away for free. Those are good reasons to check it out.

But once you've got the Amazon App Store on your phone, you have to keep it there forever. If you don't, then apps you've downloaded through it might stop working.

A mobile developer pointed this out to us this morning. He stumbled across the problem because he noticed that the Amazon App Store was running some sort of process in the background all the time on his phone, eating up resources. He couldn't even get it to shut down manually. So he got rid of it completely.

Suddenly, all the apps he'd downloaded through it -- including Angry Birds -- stopped working. Instead, he now gets this error message:

We confirmed the behavior on the Nexus S we keep around the office.

This developer suspects that Amazon is collecting usage data through the Appstore app -- that's how it can afford to subsidize apps.

Another more mundane possibility is that the app has to send some kind of signal back to Amazon to prove it's not pirated, and does this through the Appstore app.

Whatever the reason, it's annoying. And not good for the Android platform overall.

Once Amazon makes its own Android tablets, this bug probably won't matter -- you probably won't be able to uninstall the Amazon Appstore from them. In fact, it may be the only approved way to get apps. Just like Apple.

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The One Technology Google Is Holding Back (GOOG)

Google has been known for ambitiously developing technology that seems more science fiction than Silicon Valley, such as self-driving cars, but former Google CEO Eric Schmidt shared one technology he says is the only one Google has ever built, then withheld: facial recognition.

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The One Technology Google Is Holding Back (GOOG)

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Why No One Will Be Using Google Wallet Yet (GOOG)

At first blush, Google has pulled off something pretty impressive with Google Wallet.

It's a secure way to handle payments and offers all in one place, like Foursquare meets Groupon meets MasterCard. 

But right now, there's a problem. There's only one phone that works with Google Wallet and that's the Nexus S.

And while there are thousands of PayPass terminals that take those "tap" payments, they don't do much good if you don't have a phone or card packing a NFC chip.

It all comes down to the hardware. If manufacturers don't make phones with NFC chips, Google Wallet simply won't take off. And that's not even including adoption from non-Google platforms like iPhone, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. Good luck getting them on board.

That's where the big problem for Google Wallet comes in. It's not that the technology isn't intuitive, it's getting carriers and phone manufacturers to get on board too.

Google touted several big-name partners for Google Wallet at its event in New York today, but those barely scratch the surface. It'll take more than Sprint -- the nation's third largest carrier -- to really move the needle and convince manufacturers to adopt NFC in new phones.

And the other big three carriers already have a totally different mobile payments system called Isis. What are the chances they'd give that up in favor of Google Wallet?

That being said, Google is taking the right approach and rolling Google Wallet out slowly. It's being tested in New York and San Francisco first, then rolling out to other cities after that.

It's going to be an uphill battle for Google to get everyone else to adopt its system.

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