That's my thought too. The 90s was the CD Era. It was the think to buy with your disposable income. Now the thing to buy is gadgets and apps.
- CatCubed
Great piece. For everyone who is a cheerleader for Android, this is a must read. What you're cheering for is not openness it's the creation of an environment where app developers must relay on advertising subsistence farming and where phone hardware margins are so slim there is no room for innovation.
- CatCubed
Is Jim Balsillie schizophrenic? I have a more than a passing knowledge of geek jargon and marketingese and I can't make head or tails of what the hell this guy is talking about.
- CatCubed
it really is a great letter. Also read the comments especially Hawk in the comments on how he would make changes and grow Flickr. All great ideas.
- CatCubed
Really selective memory here. Yes lazy application developers may have propped up IE6 for years but web developers were sick of IE6 as they preferred IE for the Mac which was better than IE6. Also a year after IE6 Safari came out, and then after another year Firefox.
- CatCubed
The whole left/right or up/down navigation style probably sounded nifty on it's face but it's lame in practice. If the user has to think about how to use the navigation you've failed.
- CatCubed
One could say that time period at the beginning where native apps weren't available was a boon to the iPhone as it gathered an audience and a demand.
- CatCubed
Dumb. So this adds 5.6KB of javascript that the browser has to chug through before rendering the page to save yourself from writing less than 1KB of CSS?
- CatCubed