This is cool…I am writing this post on my HTC mobile/smart phone via a neat little Android app from Word Press, the underlying web log engine used on this site. (Yes, Dorothy, “web log” is what a ‘blog’ means which, being of American origin, of course got shortened to ‘blog’…IMHO, OMG, k :-p)
Not to disparage the iPhone, which is very cool, but I think the proliferation of Android apps and the comparability of the HTC phones coming out – including other manufacturers as well – will lead to the eventual displacement of Apple and its phone to the familiar position of loyalist niche toy. That is, the iPhone will end up as the Sony Betamax of the 21st century. Not only did Apple make a blunder through its exclusivity deal with at&t, which is too long, the proprietary nature of it technology will lose out – someone might want to tell Steve Jobs about this open source stuff. And this copy called, get this, ‘Google,’ owns Android and has an entire open source code library. OMG, indeed…
I’m not predicting Apple’s demise just yet – remember how not-so-great life was before the iPod? And while IBM’s negligence in developing software for a machine it created known as the personal computer spawned a little company called that ended up overtaking its progenitor in terms of market capitalization, Big Blue survived – of course, not by building more big mainframe computers.
“Think”: IBM’s successful slogan. Think smaller. If it gets any smaller, it might just be huge. Nice Android. Good boy…
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