Friday was a busy day for me. I had two meetings in the morning surrounded by telephone calls, and then more calls in the afternoon. In total, I spent somewhere between 4 and 5 hours on the telephone, all on my iPhone 4. I had one dropped call but that is because I wandered into [...]
Archive for the ‘Mobile/Smartphone’ category
The Silicon Valley Distortion Field
July 20, 2010Quick Thought On Each Mobile OS Company
June 29, 2010A single thought on each OS manufacturer and my biggest concern for each: Apple: federal government action Google: forgetting it makes money on advertising Palm: crushed under HP’s weight Nokia: makes so much money on feature phones that it doesn’t invest enough in the future Microsoft: organization is too screwed up to matter RIM: innovate [...]
Apple, Verizon and the Sound of Deflating Balloons
June 22, 2010Ever since the rumors cropped up again about Apple and Verizon, I have been thinking about the impact of that deal. I have thought, at various times, that Apple won’t do it because it is a completely different device infrastructure (CDMA instead of the world-standard GSM), that Apple would wait for LTE, the fact that [...]
WWDC 2010/Predicting Apple’s Future
June 9, 2010I am at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this week. On Monday, Steve Jobs gave his keynote where he focused exclusively on iPhone 4 and iOS 4. (Apple changed the OS name from iPhone OS to iOS.) The new device looks nice: camera, video in HD, new OS features, beautiful and innovative device design and [...]
A few thoughts on WWDC, Google I/O and the iPad
June 1, 2010I love my iPad but there are too many videos I can’t watch thanks to this Flash problem. As a developer and thinker, I completely understand where Apple is coming from and agree with everything Steve Jobs said in his open letter. As a user, though, it is just a pain in the neck. I [...]
