Google maps on ios
ITunes on android
YouTube on windows phone.
Its all just ecosystem wars – and end users end up being the losers as vendors try to leverage some perceived advantage. Between Balmer, Page and Cook its almost become personal they spew such partisan mumbo jumbo.
God , it would be refreshing if one of these companies thought about ways to make everyone’s technology work together, rather than try to strangle each other.
I’m an end user.
I don’t benefit from ecosystem wars.
Ecosystem walls inhibit freedom of movement.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft ecosystems are not really designed to help me, they are designed to help these vendors.
So, yes, please work together more. Open up more. Make cross-ecosystem activity easier and more the norm.
Data-based marketing is all about focusing on the individual, so we can expect this technology to naturally evolve to recognizing individuals.
The whole notion of what it means to be an individual is shifting. It used to be, and generally still is true, that being an individual means each person alone knows his or her life story. And we can choose to share it with others in the way we decide. Soon this will no longer be the case. Instead, our life story is being accumulated by others and cam be accessed by others when they decide they want it.
RT tablets were too expensive at launch. People view tablets differently than laptops, and expect tablets to have lower prices. So, this is a step in the right direction.
Apps would have been more forthcoming with greater adoption. But the devices were too expensive and they didn’t sell. Now it’s almost too late for RT on non-embedded devices.
This is a good looking device, and if it came out originally in place of the 920 it would have been a very hot phone. It didn’t, however. Instead it looks like a catchup model for TMobile.
So, we can expect the next ATT model will herald the next “new” wave of flagship Nokia mobile devices. We can expect those to arrive running Blue and so sometime in the fall.
We can expect that the new top of the line will feature its camera, be slightly heavier than the 925 and come with wireless charging.
we can expect that new flagship will be for sale subsidized at $99.
The biggest mystery remains about how much new functionality will Blue contain.
I sure wish more mobile developers used Xamarin Mobile development tools to create native UI cross platform app code.
It makes releasing cross platform apps with native UX for iOS, Android and WP much easier, and reduces problems maintaining the the cross platform code.
