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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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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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