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Why Doesn’t Nokia License Android? = Why Don’t Muslims Eat Pork?

Published in January 18th, 2010
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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Nokia’s Android implementation could create a rich and market-leading total offering benefiting additionally from the Google ecosystem. Moreover, it would easy become a volume leader within the Android ecosystem. I asked this question from a former Nokia executive and his response was “you might as well ask why Muslims don’t eat pork”. But Nokia is [...]

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AppleInsider: Inside Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone OS as advancing technology

Published in November 25th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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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, fractionalized, and poorly integrated products they’re already making. This is also why Symbian, Windows Mobile, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson are all failing [...]

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Samsung to abandon Windows Mobile for Android? | Electronista

Published in November 23rd, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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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 to take a majority share of the portfolio moving Android out of the picture gradually after 2011. You will infer from my previous comments that the reason any deep pocketed [...]

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App Storage on Droid

Published in November 20th, 2009
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The Motorola Droid will be the most powerful Android phone to date when it launches on November 6, 2009. However, the device still features the same shortcomings of all other Android phones. The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage. Google does not support installing apps [...]

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Android Comment from a Developer

Published in November 20th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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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 items, variations in carrier- & device firmware, hard- & software input, screen sizes, international customizations, [...]

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On Open Standards

Published in November 16th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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In the sense that open always wins, that may be. But by then Apple will have moved on to the next thing. 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 [...]

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App Store Statistics

Published in November 9th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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The competition situation looks reasonable on a logarithmic scale…App Catalogs.key addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fmeownewsletter.com%2F2009%2F11%2F09%2Fapp-store-statistics%2F’; addthis_title = ‘App+Store+Statistics’; addthis_pub = ”;

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Expanding on the Importance of Apple’s Integrated Approach

Published in November 3rd, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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Any judgement on comparing Apple’s app store strategic positioning versus its competition requires a broader view of the product and market. The 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 [...]

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