Mobile app developers’ interest in HTML5 is slipping Appcelerator and IDC found the number of developers who said they were very interested in building apps on HTML5 had fallen to 59.9 percent. This was the lowest level since Appcelerator began tracking the specification in April 2011. “Interest in HTML5 peaked in July 2012 at 72.7 …

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Google’s Tasty Lemonade – stratēchery by Ben Thompson A semi-contrarian view on the Motorola sale from Ben Thompson. He agrees the initial purchase was crazy, but admires Google for getting a lot of value from what was a big mistake. Interesting how he links this to Google’s recent deal with Samsung. 

Samsung Electronics fourth-quarter profit sags Samsung’s smartphone sales slumped 18% as the new iPhones slowed the S4. Not too surprising. The real test will be if they can pick up again when Samsung’s successor to the S4 comes out. 

They’re (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks We posted a while back on Samsung’s cheating to amp performance whenever it detected benchmarking software was running. But now Anandtech takes a look at the industry as a whole, and nearly everyone is dirty. Only Apple and Motorola can say that they don’t …

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