BryonLewis

While I do agree that windows in the short term might be successful with their strategy of metro everywhere (sounds similar to something else? “Windows Everywhere”), I still have hope that the biggest player in this is the mobile browser. The reason I’m currently enamored with Android and not iOS has nothing to do with hardware or app selection, it’s the web app management. I can install apps from anywhere, make a playlist on my work computer and have it seconds later on my phone, or edit my calendar within any browser and have my phone reflect it. While I do enjoy windows, this has been one area where they haven’t “succeeded” but have been trying for years. Tizen has me interested in it’s HTML/webapp based applications instead of native code, but I believe it’s too early for that technology to be accepted.

I am in the market soon for a tablet and am really hoping to get a Windows RT one. That way hopefully, I can have one device that might be hacked to run Windows RT, Android, Tizen, and Chromium so I can actually test them side by side and determine which one I find the most useful.

So its harder on their infrastructure if I use a 250GB cap only during peak hours of 6-9pm every day than if I use 600 GB only between the hours of 1AM and 4AM every day. The companies and the FCC need to explain this better where it incredibly easy to infer that they want to make data artificially scarce so they can increase their profits year over year.

Always good to see some progress, remember it was 15 years ago when people though no one would ever fill up a 20GB hard drive.

In regards to the different versions/flavors of phones, that is one thing I do admire about Apple. They create one phone (I know the iPad 4G HSPA+ crap) but essentially the same phone and sell it everywhere. This is starting to have remnants of the GMC, Oldsmobile, pontiac, buick. cadillac, chevy, saturn where the same product is re-branded into oblivion. In an era in which international communication is commonplace just give us all the same (as much as possible) product.

I really enjoyed the article, great work.

I personally think we jumped into using touchscreens a little too early. I truly believe the greatest revolution will be when we can provide tactile touchscreens. Screens that give sensation when touched (not just vibrations). Where you can feel the friction of an object while dragging it. Or the buttons have borders that are raised and you can feel this on the screen.

I’m really not understanding any of this. Lets say I wanted to make a piece of software that would detect using the proximity sensor, accelerometer and other sensors if the phone was in a holder or pocket when it receives a text message. It would then unlock the phone automatically for 4 seconds after receiving that text message allowing the user to answer it and then lock it back up. I don’t know of any prior art for this, could this be patented?

I’m reading the code for the conditions of patents, and I keep specifically coming to

A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains.

I should know this, I’ve been driving an Evo for the past 3 years =)

I don’t think you mean “off the line” (from a standing start) because an Evo would beat a standard work van. The issue would be if there was a race from 30MPH with both vehicles being in 5th gear. The Evo would have practically no power until it got up to around 3000 RPMs.

I generally believe that it is technical limitations which are holding back the industry. Presented with the option of creating 4 different mobile versions (even with the same code base) and doing all that testing as compared to a single easily maintained web version, most companies would go with the web version. This is only going to occur once technology catches up and allows for a better experience through mobile browsers.

I actually wrote a post in the mobile section comparing PC history to mobile history. I believe that eventually phones are going to move more and more to use web applications the same way the PC industry is moving now. 6 years ago no one would ever think that they could live solely within a browser, but my Mother has been using the CR-48 chrome book for over a year and loves it. The actual OS becomes less important when there is a standardized way to access and display data. A company maintaining 3-4 different builds for the different mobile OS’s is insane.

More questions need to be asked of the industry as a whole:

Are gestures intuitive when every app uses different ones?
Why do I have to manage my data AND APPS on 4 different devices instead of it all being synced?
What are the current legal and technical limitations to a truly universal client?

I WANT TO EDIT!!

“Yahoo! Inc. Thursday acquired Broadcast.com, the leading Internet audio and video broadcaster, for $5.7 billion in stock in one of the biggest mergers in cyberspace. "

Thanks for the source, I was at work and wasn’t going to get links. Just to add that I I really meant Billions of dollars.

Snapping up those potential rivals could cost you in the end. I believe it was Yahoo that snapped up a bunch of startups for billions of dollars before the bust.

So this means that the only news you will get about technology is the watered down versions found in print? I don’t think you will be able to keep up with the reset of the world as a tech journalist, but I hope you prove me wrong.

I believe I was on 5 and used Xcode 4.2. The iPad upgraded to 5.1 and required 4.3. What you said may still be true though.

I just got done watching it and it was really interesting. It seems as though the UI was designed based upon statistics which I like in concept. Through watching that video I think I also understood one of my problems with it. Clicking on each tab seems like a complete contextual change to me. Almost like switching from one window to another. This is because there is so much information in each tab and the sizes aren’t standard making it harder for me to scan through the icons and the text.

Thanks again for directing me to that video.

Already here, and just read it. I just wanted to start a conversation about UI design and am glad to see a post with a different viewpoint . I know that standards will evolve naturally.

I completely agree with your Android Back button statement. Marking an email as spam is a perfect example of where I get confused. Do I long press, hit the menu button, tap it, swipe it to the left or right? I don’t know which one because there could be hundreds of apps, all with a different way to access the same feature.

You’re right I was thinking only in terms of American/English programs. I think that most development tools should provide an easy way to translate button text similar to nokia’s Qt QTranslate function. I don’t experiences with many other cultures, but would countries just being exposed to technology know that the floppy disk icon means save, or even know what a floppy disk is? I like that when those icons were first introduced they were also included in the file menu next to their name.