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Fragmentation
…One of the main reasons why UIs are unequally inferior are not only the way you build apps (open vs. closed hw/sw system) and the SDK itself but also marginal to non-existing UI standards, no ready-made drag & drop UI…
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Research
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Bad(a)
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/09/samsung.may.deal.microsoft.severe.blow This prediction says that WinMo and Symbian are out at Samsung. Not a big surprise there. The real news is some new “proprietary” OS is…
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One Hundred Million
On April 9th, 2007 Apple announced that the 100 millionth iPod had been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years earlier, in November 2001. Three…
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Maemo
Insipid and irrational politics are symptomatic to a company trapped by rigidity of response to asymmetric attack (and you can quote me on that.) Nokia, the world’s leader in total mobile phone sales seems to be having…
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Open Always Wins
That may be. Open only wins when the underlying service is a commodity for which improvements (other than price) will not be valued. In my way of speaking, openness is semantically equivalent to “modular” and that is in…
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The Symmetry of Google and Microsoft in Mobile
The question of Android viability goes deeper than the app ecosystem. In fact the ecosystem is itself dependent on the network effect of the platform. That effect is weak because the platform is not “tight” and is prone…
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Serving the Needs of IT
An interesting note in the latest Canalys Smartphone quarterly summary (http://www.canalys.com/pr/2009/r2009112.htm): “…in our October study of 600 European decision makers in medium and large enterprises, more than 20%…
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It looks reasonable on a log scale
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Is Mobile Computing Good Enough?
This new “mobile computing” use case that smartphones try to serve is not going to be satisfied with solutions that are built from modular components. The reason is simple: as the solutions are not good enough (because…
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Motomojo
Motorola shipped 13.6 million handsets in the quarter, compared with 25.4 million in the same quarter the year before. Android will not save them. Not least of all because HTC makes better Android devices.