My Xperia X1 with latest S.E. Xperia X2 ROM and Google Android 2.0.1 - Part 2
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This looks way too promising..
_Design _Mobile _Web _Code _Cloud
Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership's "missing manual"
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Remarkable! A must watch.
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Chrome Features - most creative video I have seen - Google knows how to sell
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Chrome Features - most creative video I have seen - Google knows how to sell
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Mobile Platforms & Diversification - how ~they~ are killing mobile developer productivity & profits
Samsung recently announced Bada OS with much fanfare & a competition - Yay!
This got me thinking yet again as to why any developer should support / build for it? What is the killer feature which will make me want to invest in building apps for this platform? Apart from the fact that it has a large market share - nothing. I am not trying to second guess Samsung's intentions in bringing Bada to life - I mean rather than choosing from choice list of OpenSource OS choices these days (Android, Symbian & Maemo ...) - they probably know what they are doing. As long as a mobile manufacturer provide ways to port our existing apps using a standards compliant platform we are game.Diversification of Mobile Platforms today is killer of mobile developer's productivity (& profit). We are forced to choose a platform and stick with it - I guess this will start becoming a common place & the best platform will eventually win. Many developers will only focus their efforts on one platform. Btw: It already started happening.
I am more than happy to support any platform which comes to play. So long as I can find developers for the given language needed for the platform, the platform is standardised (eg. Java) & deploying/porting the app to a platform does not involve rewriting it from scratch.
Between guys, Qt is one amazing platform - played around quite a bit and I have to say I am impressed. Hope iPhone would one day be fully supported along with Symbian & Maemo. Also fingers crossed as to whether Bada would be on the list of supported platforms for Qt.
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Open Letter to Manufacturers of Mobile Devices
(Photo Courtesy: www.traveljournals.net)
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Open Source Phones are the future
Reading the piece Why Open Source Phones Still Fail by Sascha Segan
I felt I am reading something similar to this Sky is Falling.. Scenario:
The article provided a pretty distinctively limited view of the way things work i.e. US != World, Nokia's main market atleast for now is Europe / Asia / Africa - thats where it makes its billions from and that's where many of its devices are aimed at.
(Photo Courtesy: eggstrategy.com)
I felt that view with which the article built over is the fact of failure of OpenMoko - but in my opinion there are many platforms which haven't seen the light of the day in US, but play a major role in rest of the world. Take Symbian for example (which is now OpenSource Platform by the way).
Coming back to Maemo (N900 runs Maemo) / Android - Both are amazingly powerful platforms, given time they will be the leading the edge soon.
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Square Payment Service & Security
Square Payment Service looks slick and amazingly intuitive. That said, its still unclear as to what protection it provides to the users of this service - I don't mean the retailers.
Imagine a scammer can easily spoof someone into entering their details - also with so much ease - from what I have read/seen I feel there is no obvious robustness in this particular system. If this reaches masses, you can imagine Credit Card scam can actually be possible that much more easily.
Again, I have to say its way too early to say anything about this service. I just hope Square Up guys make it more obvious as to the security they provide to the End-User.
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