Rubénerd :)

Thursday 05th August 2010

Google can’t internalise empathy

Om Malik with his iPad

As usual, Om Malik puts it better than anyone else.

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Sunday 25th July 2010

Goodbye Nexus One

I completely missed this story, but Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One. For all my talk of the iPhone and how my 3G model still does everything I want it to, I’m sad to see Google pull out of the race as a direct competitor.

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Thursday 22nd July 2010

Google Android the latest US weapon?

I already read these Google Reader!

Presumably they asked Apple but it was rejected from the App Store. Thank you thank you, I’ll be here all week! From SBS News:

Raytheon, which makes the Patriot missile defense system, is developing software which could enable a soldier to find enemies in his or her surrounding terrain using a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system.

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Saturday 26th June 2010

One sided reporting on Android and the iPhone

While I’m ragging on Android and on my mobile soapbox thingy, why is it the media consistently gives the platform a free ride but criticises everything Apple does?

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Friday 25th June 2010

Android is Cheerios, not sweet eye candy

Imagine the uproar on Slashdot if this story description was posted about an Apple product! But I digress.

According to Liliputing, Intel is bringing the sweet eye candy of Android to x86, which — if all goes well — means it will land on (more) netbooks and tablets soon.

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Friday 21st May 2010

Google supporting Flash doesn't make it open

Google IO

Lance Ulanoff quoting a speaker from Google IO:

Android 2.2 2 support Flash and Air. Google: "Part of being open means you’re inclusive, as opposed to exclusive."

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Saturday 08th May 2010

Android isn't evil, it's just not as awesome

Andreas Constantinou has written one of the most interesting blog posts about Android that I’ve read in a long while; he argues its claim to being open source is not only suspect, but that the platform’s relative success has very little to do with it. The following are my own thoughts.

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Monday 12th April 2010

Palm for sale, and some drawn out nostalgia

I think it’s safe to say we all saw it coming. Well, either this or bankruptcy. It makes me sad.

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Saturday 03rd April 2010

The iPhone, iPad forcing people off Flash

Prompt asking me to install Flash

From the very beginning of the first iPhone I defended Apple’s position against adding Flash support, and the same went for the iPad. Now it seems their position has finally started to pay off, and you won’t even need to be an Apple customer to benefit.

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Saturday 20th March 2010

Windows Phone Mobile thing 7 is… the iPhone?

Windows Phone 7

So let me get this straight, Windows Phone Corporate Mobile Enterprise Personal Home Premium Ultimate Edition With Dynamics 7 Service Pack 1 Release Update 3 is not going to have cut-and-paste or multitasking, it’ll have multitouch and finally a compulsory application store, and Microsoft is defending these positions?

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