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Android Market Share, EA's Public Perception, Netflix and More - Buffalo Bulletin

2013-11-09
on today's show OS market share ships Samsung talks foldable screens catching shiny pokemon ea's worst company title and for Marvel heroes head to Netflix special bulletin time hello and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap five major stories from our site technobuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story i mentioned on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics for each story if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley skava I don't have the flu anymore so here are your top stories some interesting market share news from comscore this week as their latest report on us smartphones went live platform wise android's market share took a small dip this summer but don't worry it was just point 2 percentage points dropping from fifty two percent 250 one-point-eight percent Apple's iOS increased by point seven percentage points to forty point six percent Windows Phone climbed point two percentage points to a three point three percent share and poor poor blackberry dropped another point six percent wah-wah samsung also in the news this week holding their second ever analysts day filled with presentations intended to impress investors one presentation in particular caught our eye Samsung promised to roll out smartphones with 4k displays and even handsets that can actually bend within the next few years apparently they're hoping to have a foldable handset by 2016 which isn't too far off and those 4k display smartphone should hit around 2015 now I just want to know who's promising battery life innovation am i right over in gaming a Pokemon master or a polka master if you will has dedicated an entire machine to finding rare shiny water pokemon shiny pokemon have less than a point 1 percent chance of appearing in battle and this guy didn't want to waste his time looking for them himself so he made a computer notify him when the bottom 3ds screen animation was longer than usual indicating a shiny pokemon was at hand that's amazing and terrifying it looks like EA is finally realizing that maybe being consumerist coms worst company in America two years running really isn't the best thing ever new CEO Andrew Wilson told kotaku quote we don't want to be viewed as the worst company in America unquote and quote the consumers out there telling us something unquote which aside from both those statements being hilariously obvious at least indicates someone an ea's executive team is ready to stop blaming homophobes and football fans on the poll results lastly our wild card story for the week is an exciting one if you're a fan of comic book heroes it looks like Netflix has just inked a deal with Marvel to produce four different shows based on daredevil jessica jones iron fist and Luke Cage in 2015 they'll all be 13 episode seasons and when those are done the heroes will team up for a miniseries called the defenders let's hope this set of shows holds up to the high standard Marvel's been putting out over the last few years shall we that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time what's up everyone it's Ashley thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at TechnoBuffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time humans
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