I guess the Snow White and the seven dwarfs were to be written in modern times and the old mean witch happened to use the iPhone, she would have gone about saying this:

Mirror, mirror on iPhone
Who is the Fairest of us all?

If there ever were a video/animation to best describe the present Steve Jobs / Apple story this one from Japan is set to be a winner. Super cool, especially the last part when Jobs chops off the iPhone user’s fingers to resolve the signal issue and how they are hooked to AT&T. Quite some Apple thrashing I must say, is this winning a nominee for the best bashing video?

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened: Apple became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation.

@saarikko Apple has been able to build a religion based on the support from very loud and loyal believers and active congregations around the globe. The most influential supporters and developers being in USA. Nokia’s beliefs are in engineering and logistics, production and product features. Apple used to have evangelists thirty years ago (@jwa Kawasaki). Nokia is proud of its production expertise. It’s a product manager driven company.

Distimo, an app store analytics company, has released their data for April regarding the Apple App Store. This is of interest as it is the first time since they report on the iPad App sales and how they do compared to iPhone sales. Also, the number of iPad applications in the App Store has increased dramatically in the last two weeks of April. On April 12th there were 2654 iPad apps while two weeks later, on April 26th there were 3437 apps resulting in a 30% increase.

Nokia makes a lot of phones. Most of them are good for basic telephony and text messaging. Nokia knows how to produce at a low cost and the company has a great distribution organization in Asia, Africa and South-America. Nokia does still have a big market share in Europe. Nokia’s role in USA is declining and it’s close to zero in Japan. What about Russia. Nokia’s phones does connect to the Internet. Surfing around should and could be easier.

Erply has come up with an innovative way to harness the mobility of the iPad. Erply is an Estonian company, who just last month raised 2 million dollars in funding and is trying to create an appealing solution to the sales, inventory and CRM challenges of retail SMEs.

Apple will be the talk of the town in mobile advertising this year. Last week at Apple’s OS 4 event, Jobs presented what advertising industry has been asking from mobile: iAd – the engagement media with scale and quality.