So, iPhone and iPad users who prefer apps from other big mobile platform makers don't have to switch. (businessinsider.com)
Companies «borrow» from each other all the time of course, and it looks like another major mobile platform maker liked Android's notification interface so much that it decided to «borrow» it in an upcoming software release. (bgr.com)
«The accelerometer knows in which direction the phone has moved in three dimensions — but it does not know how the phone has rotated around its own axis,» says Nick Black, co-founder of San Francisco - based location - aware mapping platform maker Cloudmade. (newscientist.com)