[W]e’re starting to see that in some cases the carriers may actually be able to exploit this “openness” to create a closed system that may leave you crying for Apple’s closed system — at least theirs looks good and behaves as expected.
via Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With. Thanks to Carole M for sharing the link with me originally!
Apple: Reception questionable, revenue excellent – MAC.BLORGE.
Another excellent post by my friend Michael. “Antennagate” is annoying, to be sure, for those who it affects—but the reports of Apple’s death from iPhone problems are seriously exaggerated (once again).
Thanks to Cindy from Plurk for sharing this!
Apple Announces Multitasking, iAd Mobile Ad Service and More in iPhone OS 4.0 – Mac Rumors. Some nice new bits are coming—and I won’t need a new handset to take advantage of them!
Android only trumps iPhone where AT&T coverage is poor | Electronista.
There’s nothing really earth-shaking in this report, though it’s kind of interesting to see how some of the user stats are broken down. Come back in a year, when Android has matured more as a product line, and let’s see where things lie then.
“The great iPhone death watch – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech” is another interesting look at how virtually the entire tech world (at least, the Microsoft-loving part) completely botches analyzing how an Apple product will sell. While there’s no doubt that iPhone isn’t the perfect phone for everyone (and, frankly, there is no such device), the fact is that it has been a huge success and has forced an industry that generally hasn’t given the slightest care about end users to do so. While it’s debatable whether iPhone’s only “real” competition—Google’s Android OS-based phones and Palm’s Pre—would have come into existence without the iPhone to spur them on, it’s clear that the bar is pretty high for any smartphone today and that can only be good for customers.
Because, aside from being a faster version of the iPhone I loved already, it lets me take and publish videos directly to YouTube. If this doesn’t help revolutionize personal video publishing, I don’t know what will.
To that end, my first three videos are below!
