iPhone

Skype on 3G mobile impresses

June 1, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Yesterday, using the newly announced Skype over 3G for iPhone,  I made a number of Skype to Skype calls on iPhone and iPad. The calls were made from my office as well as from the car.  Initial thoughts: Crystal clear sound. Never have I heard that kind of sound quality on a [...]

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Skype’s “small fee” is noise guys.

May 30, 2010

Image by Photo Giddy via Flickr Sometimes you have to really shake your head at the quality of the commentary on the internet.  Fact: Skype has finally released a version of Skype for iPhone that supports calling over 3G networks.  Never mind the fly in the ointment that all the commentary is  stuck on – [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 and the coming identity gulags.

April 14, 2010

The unveiling of iPhone OS 4.0 caused a bit of a stir last week.  Apple will finally allow multi-tasking on iPhone devices, which means that true communications clients can finally be built to run on iPhone.  No longer will users be required to load and run the Skype, Truphone or Google voice clients – they [...]

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Apple’s naked self interest

April 12, 2010

Any vendor in the platform business knows that their primary product is programming interfaces – the so-called APIs that developers depend upon in order to deliver applications.  The API exposes features of the platform, and differentiate applications running on that platform from all others.  Lose control of the API, and you will lose control of [...]

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RIM bought QNX because of Apple.

April 9, 2010

News is out this morning that Harman International has agreed to sell its QNX Software Systems division to Research In Motion.  TechCrunch reports that this might mean tighter integration with automobiles, since Harman acquired QNX in order to provide software to its automotive customer base.  RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis himself hypes up the automotive possibilities [...]

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Why iPhone is destined to dominate Android and BlackBerry in the market

January 24, 2010

One of the most common debates among smart phone cognoscenti is which platform will prevail — BlackBerry, Symbian, iPhone, Microsoft, or the latest entrant Android? Common thought is that the platform with the most developers will win, and currently that’s iPhone.  Many folks, however, having drunk the “open” kool-aid, believe that ultimately Android must win. [...]

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That’s pure Horse Hockey, Om.

January 20, 2010

Om Malik is advancing a new theory to explain why Apple isn’t allowing VoIP on 3G applications to be approved in the App Store.  Voice quality, he writes, may be the reason.  Citing industry figures like my good friends Andy Abramson, Karl Good, and Pat Phelan, who have all written about the quality of VoIP [...]

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Will slate devices spell the death of the netbook?

January 7, 2010

What a difference a couple of years makes.  Before iPhone came along, the world of touch screen devices was moribund – confined to tablet PC’s with pens and not much else.  Today, fingertip driven UI’s are the rage, and the enthusiasm for touch devices generated by the launch of iPhone continues unabated. Consider the following [...]

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iPhone versus Blackberry: Horse race or Deathmatch?

November 12, 2009

Infoworld’s product review format in the 1990’s was famous.  It consisted of a detailed and hard hitting qualitative review, accompanied by a grid rating the reviewed product on a number of different critieria.  Finally a weighted average of those criteria scores produced a single numeric score.  Many a company was made or ruined by that [...]

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BlackBerry Doomed?

October 29, 2009

Toktumi’s Peter Sisson asks Is the BlackBerry Doomed? and goes on to compare his recent experience of developing for BlackBerry with his experience as an iPhone developer.  Many of his complaints – non-standard hardware and OS versions in particular – are the same issues we ran into two years ago when we developed and delivered [...]

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