Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
My good friend Michael Yuan (Ringful Health) put together a quick survey on BlackBerry to better understand popular BlackBerry versions and help them prioritize their product road-map. The survey results are public so everyone can benefit from this survey: So, while we are working on BlackBerry versions of our apps, we are really interested in … Read more
Rudy De Waele (@mtrends) has put together a collaborative outlook of the mobile trends for the next 10 years: Update: Mobile Trends 2020 has been updated to include views from Russell Buckley, Tomi Ahonen, Yuri van Geest, Kelly Goto, Raj Singh, David Harper, Marc Davis, Loic LeMeur… (You can find my contribution to Mobile Trends … Read more
Ajit wrote an interesting post titled Mobile Cloud Computing – the silver lining for Operators, where he explores Cloud Computing from an Operator perspective and discusses the synergies and opportunities for Carriers. He quotes an ABI Research report that states that cloud computing will become a “disruptive force in the mobile world: first is simply … Read more
Will RIM adopt Android? A very interesting thought indeed. But why or not would RIM do such a thing? Some thoughts below: Why this would be unlikely? “Not built here” mentality — this is probably the biggest hurdle for them. There will be internal people resistant to the change, resistant to drastic changes and “throwing … Read more
BONDI 1.1 is now in Candidate Release and it is open to public for feedback. Note that this phase will close on the 2nd of December so you’ll need to get your comments in before then. See OMTP and BONDI at the betavine website. What is BONDI? In short BONDI is a set of specifications, … Read more
It almost is the end of 2009. And where does near-field proximity communication-based applications stand? From mobile marketing, to customer loyalty, payments and authentication, to information exchange, transportation and health-care. Well, it still stands very far from its full potential. Due to its characteristics, proximity is an excellent class of physical interaction. And inherently a … Read more
Will history repeat itself? There was/is the 12 keys keypad cellphone. And few care about Touch. Then came the iPhone. Now everyone loves Touch. There was the operator Deck. Everyone hated the Deck. Then came Apple. And created the App Store. Now everyone loves the App Stores. And everyone still hates the Deck. There was … Read more
Operators have so much infrastructure already in place and it has taken them so many years to take advantage of it in news ways — to leverage such infrastructure for their own benefit and the benefit of the ecosystem, by repackaging and offering this infrastructure as “open” Services: their payment system, their marketing/reach methods, their … Read more
Responding to Tomi‘s thread on ForumOxford, where he wrote: “The best phone in the world cannot take the mobile phone market, unless there is distribution.” Yes. Which is exactly why Android seems to me that it will be widely adopted. And it will be widely adopted because for device manufacturers it is cheaper this way … Read more
While looking for information on how CTIA 2009 in San Diego went, I found an article by Richard Wong (who is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners) titled on “The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)“. A good article by Richard, he reminisces on how mobility used to be in the early days … Read more