Why Web OS Really Failed, and What it Means for the Rest of Us Michael Mace dug into the webOS story, too, today with another excellent post. We kind of said the same thing. Mace said it was because there were no deep pockets to fix the flaws and no killer feature to get anyone [...]
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Who’s Your Daddy and What’s Your Killer Feature?
January 3, 2012webOS Failed From Lack of Oxygen, Nothing More, Nothing Less
January 3, 2012In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson for the Tech Sector Two days ago, Brian X. Chen wrote an article for The New York Times regarding the flop of webOS. I’ll sum up the article for you here: it is the operating system’s fault that Palm and HP failed. The world of hardware and [...]
To Android or Not To Android
December 9, 2011There has been a lot of hubbub this week around Eric Schmidt’s Android comments. Eric, the chairman of Google, said at LeWeb that “whether you like [Android] or not, and again I like it a great deal, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.” He set a six-month time horizon [...]
RIM Never Learns, Shoots Self in Foot Again
October 25, 2011Watching (and caring at all) about RIM is an exercise in frustration and futility. Here is a company who can’t learn from their own mistakes nor anyone else’s. For anyone who cares about the article that got me going, I’m going to link over to Ronen Halevy over at BerryReview.com. If you haven’t heard, RIM [...]
My Ears Are On Fire
September 29, 2011So… if you haven’t heard, Amazon announced a bunch of new Kindles yesterday. For the most part, I think the pundits have nailed it so a few quick bullet points before I dive into the meat of my post: Awesome prices! $80 for a Kindle, $100 for a Touch version and $200 for the tablet [...]
