Regular readers will know that I’m a strong believer in open standards. I think they provide the best platform for innovation and are the best protection against monopolists. Hence I would love it if the open web prevailed, and the rising power of gatekeepers like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and even Google annoys me as [...]
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Matias Duarte of Google wrote a long post yesterday about the new Roboto typeface they are using in Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0). It is interesting more for what it says about how Google is trying to portray itself as for the details of how they went about making Roboto. Matias is [...] We are going through a phase of hardware replacement in our family at the moment. We have just bought our first Mac computer as a PC replacement (a Mac Mini) and Fiona has got a new iPhone. I still use a Blackberry for email, but I carry an iPhone as well which is due [...] Steve Job’s tenure at Apple has been little short of amazing. We are all familiar with the run of fantastic products they have released from the iPod through to the iPad (and the as usual the world is desperate for the new iPhone to arrive as soon as possible), but the progression of the [...] On Friday I wrote about how I see the future for HTML5, native apps and Adroid vs OS. The post stimulated a fair bit of debate which led me to check out how the operating system between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android is playing out in the market place. Looking at the latest data [...] Checking the news this morning over my breakfast I read a post from Fred Wilson about the fantastic HTML5 apps from Amazon/Kindle and Etsy that he saw last week and an article on Techcrunch about Google’s Native Client for Chrome and immediately got to thinking about writing a post about ‘this being a good [...] Comscore mobile data published on Techcrunch this morning ostensibly shows that one third of US phone subs have a smartphone (73m out of 234m), but when you look at the operating system I would argue that one sixth is a better estimate. I say that because Android and iOS give their users a [...] According to research out by Asymco Apple has just about enough cash to buy Nokia, RIM, HTC, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. That is an incredible statistic and testimony to the awesome success that Apple has had with its iPod, iPhone and iPad product ranges. Regular readers will know that I am not a [...] There was a post on Techcrunch over the weekend titled The walled garden has won. Regular readers will know I’m a big proponent of open systems and hence I read this piece with interest. Regrettably I think the title is accurate, although I don’t think the news is all bad. Let me explain. [...] As you probably saw last week Apple announced new subscription billing rules that are punitive to their developer and publisher partners. I wrote about them last Thursday arguing that given the rise of Android Apple should be trying to make itself more attractive to partners, not less. On Friday Jon Irwin, president of the [...] |
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