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Android Business Fashion Model
Nice summary: Essentially, Android isn’t Google’s phone platform, it’s an open alternative for failing hardware makers to use in place of Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Linux to create the same type of convoluted,…
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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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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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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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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.
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Peugeot Renault and Citroen
I’m trying explain the complete lack of interest in Nokia among the US blogging/early adopter audience. If you are an enthusiast, why do you not care about the market leader. The automotive analogy is not quite perfect,…