Nathan Waters

"Link: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/" - Nathan Waters

"Fucking hell, Apple again killing innovation on the mobile platform." - Nathan Waters

"Different battle, read above." - Nathan Waters

"I think the iPod is actually in a differently realm in this battle. MP3 players really don't have much to distinguish them (especially in terms of software). With the smartphone market, I think the touch-screen phone has basically reached maturity with the hardware. There will be some advances in hardware, but ultimately now it comes down to who offers and adapts best with the software platform. Apple I think is not forecasting that all phones apps are essentially going to be online-based (and not coded in a phone-specific language). Apple uses C, Android uses Java. Which is more suited to web-based programming? ... in the next 3 years there is really no reason why you should have to download a Facebook app for your specific phone. You should simple go to m.facebook.com and utilise all the features of the app, but directly on the website. Apple will own the market for the next few years, but de-centralised systems always win." - Nathan Waters

"Android is like Windows here. iPhone is the Mac. I mean already the Android has overtaken Windows Mobile, so the fact that it's open source doesn't mean it's like Linux in this battle. Android is freely available for any mobile manufacturer to use and multiple manufacturers have opted to use the platform, and each will market their own phones to specific markets. Meanwhile the iPhone is one single hardware with one single platform, with one single marketing method/market." - Nathan Waters

"Except the fact that the iPhone is repeating the Mac vs PC saga of years past. Android will be the clear winner within the next 2-3 years... if you look at the stats actually, the Android with only one manufacturer has already been growing at 40% per month and stolen market share from both Apple and Blackberry. If Apple really opened-up its market and allowed its iPhone OS on multiple phones... then maybe they'd have a chance... but they will never do that because Apple is not about innovation, they're about market domination and lock-downs. They failed with the Mac, they've set themselves up to fail again. This is already a battle of software over hardware, and Apple is focusing on the latter. Android FTW. Just wish there were more apps on this bad boy HTC Magic (or T1 in the states)" - Nathan Waters