Talking about technology from a (mostly) practical perspective
An interesting insight from Jean-Louis Gasee:
The center of financial gravity in the computing world—the Center of Money—has shifted. No longer directed at the PC, the money pump now gushes full blast at the smartphones market. One of my colleagues, Bob Ackerman, calls smartphones the very personal computers. Measured by size and potential, they’re both smaller and bigger than today’s PCs.
See the rest of his note here.
As part of their iPhone 4.0 announcment yesterday, Apple amended their developer license agreement, forbidding “applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer”. It’s ostensibly to protect the stability of the iPhone OS environment – which is certainly a good thing – but it also totally undermines Adobe’s strategy for getting Flash on the iPhone.
I wonder what the industry would have to say besides “oooh, multitasking!” if Microsoft tried a policy like that?
Can you say “Double Standard”?
From TechCrunch:
Apple Gives Adobe The Finger With Its New iPhone SDK Agreement
I find it ironic that some Microsoft fanboys jumped all over the iPhone for not having copy/paste or multitasking when it first started shipping (and for the record, it won’t have multitasking until OS 4.0 ships this summer), but when we release Windows Phone 7 what’s missing? That’s right, copy/paste and multitasking.
Must be a harder problem to solve than most power users think.