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Maybe they can make that hideous Android interface look better.
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Computerworld offers results in the ongoing back and forth regarding Adobe Flash’s viability on mobile platforms. In short, tests conducted using Flash on several mobile operating systems including Google’s latest (Android Froyo) show a marked battery and performance drain and even crashed at one point.
No doubt Apple needs to work a little harder to avoid appearing heavy handed in this and other lines they’ve drawn in the sand. However, the facts on this one are hard to dispute – even if Apple’s protecting their own turf more than they’re protecting their customers.
Word from Electronista is that MobileMe might become an entirely free service as Apple bids to directly compete against Google’s similar package of free offerings for Android users. Sources cited indicate such an change to the service will come sooner rather than later, which makes a certain amount of sense, considering
Despite Apple’s propensity to charge for pretty much everything they touch, the promise of increased revenue through their iAd advertising service, the App Store sales explosion, and an inevitable shift to increased uptick in what’s now being termed ‘really personal computers’ like iPad certainly offers Apple a chance to drive a seamless package of mobile services that’s highly competitive with Google while taking away the need for their newest customers to go anywhere else for their needs.
Looks like Apple just got into the search business. Siri, a mobile assistant, is designed to make it easy to find just about anything while running around town. By no means is this a search take-all strategy, but Apple’s toe is definitely in the water.
Put Apple’s recent claims that they’re the biggest mobile device company in the world with their ARM CPU technology buys, app purchases, and that honking huge datacenter in North Carolina, and it’s pretty obvious the company’s forward momentum is all about controlling nothing less than the future of everything untethered.
After reading this story it seems like losing a phone – even if it’s the most coveted new release of 2010 – ain’t such a big deal after all.
Is this the future of video under HTML5 and the future web? Sure makes H.264 and Flash look like also-rans.
If you think simply buying a Google Android device is going to set you free from closed ecosystems like the Apple iPhone and App Store combo, think again.
Carriers are already showing signs of taking advantage of the devices on their networks that aren’t explicitly locked to any particular mobile OS, and Android seems to be the most likely target.
Why? Google shares its technologies with the world – in this case, any hardware maker that wants to play – in the interest of driving advertising dollars, while Apple develops superior interfaces from hardware to software because that’s their primary focus.
If interface development is simply a handout for the world and means to and end and hardware is a latch on, who has control? In the mobile world, barring any specific agreement requiring these two not be decoupled are altered in any way, the carrier.
This is the pecking order that resulting in carrier control and a lack of innovation in the mobile device industry – at least until Apple came on the scene. And it will continue unabated if consumers aren’t careful.
Choose wisely. More here: AT&T won’t allow unsigned Android apps on the Dell Aero? Might alter phone operating system longer term?.
What about that fight between Jobs and Schmidt? One way or the other they seem to have at least patched it up enough to have coffee together.
Now if we could just get them to wear something different for a change. Sheesh.
What’s the argument here? Don’t even consider trying to clone one of Steve’s babies. If you were a friend, you will be an enemy. And it will be personal.
Google’s online-only phone selling model has failed | Googling Google | ZDNet.com.
