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I think AT&T giving discounted renewals six months in advance is good indication that they will be losing exclusivity early in 2011.
Interesting. Wouldn't it be an advantage for another network to leak that information to deter signing with att?
It looks like Apple now represents a very real and serious competitive threat to Google's #1 money maker: ads. They now control a 3rd of the mobile market (iPads excluded) and are seemingly poised to continue this trend with the new iPhone packing several new and revolutionary killer features. Again this excludes the sold-every-3-seconds iPads. We all know that they'll get the lion's share of what's left of RIM and W…
I disagree - I think Android devices will experience more growth than iPhone OS (or iOS) in a year or two.
This will probably get lost in the noise, but I want to make an important point about the WiFi issues: it's not because there were too many users, but rather that there were too many access points. There were _570_ access points in the room, probably the result of people bringing along their MiFis and similar devices. Running a 571th device would not have solved that problem.
From their website: "Freedom of Expression"...
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The iPhone has never had the competitive advantage based on it’s feature count.
Really? The original iPhone had a competitive advantage based on a "real" webkit-based browser, visual voicemail, a large multitouch display, on-screen keyboard with good auto-correction...etc, etc. What smartphones had those features before the iPhone? Those features are why I picked the iPhone as my first smartphone. Other features are making me strongly consider switching to an Android phone. I know the mantra her…
The original iPhone had a competitive advantage
based on a "real" webkit-based browser,
visual voicemail, a large multitouch display,
on-screen keyboard with good auto-correction...etc, etc
HD display and movies, 5MP camera, increased battery life, folders and multitasking, gyroscope... I have all this on the Nexus One and that is a 6 months old phone. I think this WWDC is signing the end of an era: jobs has lost his famous innovative advantage and now he is running behind. Android/HTC had these features in their last generation phones and with EVO coming out they are going to make the iPhone 4 obsolete…
You left out all the things you don't have on your Nexus One. An HD video camera, or any camera at all that captures at 30 fps. The Nexus One's display is lower resolution than the announced iPhone display, and some of the Nexus resolution is fake resolution from the novel pixel setup. Video calling. Guitar Hero, Netflix, and Farmville. iAd (you know that is going to be a draw for some developers). Universal copy and…
HD video is "neat", 5MP camera on a phone is so last year though.
I'm actually more interested in the display than in the rest of the phone. It seems like a nice piece of tech. It's definitely a better sounding display than I've seen elsewhere.
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I wasn't aware that the Nexus One had a gyroscope.
I don't know if it does through the same sensor but the NEXUS one is aware of its absolute position, look for "google sky maps" on youtube for examples. It may be using magnetometer (digital compass) and 3 axis accelerometer.
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When half a dozen easy non-conspiratorial technical reasons just aren't enough, make up some unverifiable accusations of unfair play instead!
There aren't any technical reasons that can't be said to exist with HTML5. If you think so you obviously haven't looked at many of the HTML5 demos that are supposed to be as good as Flash. Second of all. I am an Apple fanboy. I have more or less everything they do and don't care whether flash is on there or not. That does not mean that I have to buy weak arguments just because they come from Jobs. And they are in my…
You suggest that Jobs' open letter to Adobe, and Apple's stance on Flash generally, is a deliberately deceitful and misleading cover story for some underlying real motive. Then suggest that the underlying motive is them conspiring to force Flash-using ad providers to move to iAd. Sounds like unfair play to me.
Specifically, I think Apple do want ad providers to move to iAd, but I don't think they are doing so by covering up a big plot with a stance of lies.
Adobe hasn't shown a stable mobile flash implementation yet. That sounds like a pretty convincing technical argument on it's own, and is the one I'm most interested in hearing about it's weaknesses.
Maybe the battery life / CPU use one is something Adobe can solve, maybe the security updates could be rolled into Apple's iOS updates, maybe Adobe could push for stability, maybe they could even come up with a way of mapping mouse/click/hover onto multitouch in a way that works usefully enough for many things without rewrites (though I have reservations that they could do that to Apple quality).
But to put them all together, mostly things which Adobe could have done over the years and haven't, which Apple could not do because of the closed nature of Flash... for what reward? Punch the monkey flashing ad banners filling the small iPhone screen? Games and all-flash websites stretching off the edges? Intro movies to websites? Scribd style "readers"? Flash DRM enforcers and downloaders? Clunky Flash recreations of common GUI elements? Not much reward for a lot of effort, is it?
Particularly when other platforms are trying to promote HTML5 and marginalise Flash, so they would want to support HTML5 anyway.
I am beginning to wonder whether iAds is the reason Apple don't want Flash on their mobile devices.
Actually, that makes sense. If Flash were on the iPhoneOS devices along with some kind of cross-compile dev environment, then Adobe could develop its own iAd clone. By controlling runtimes, and development environments, Apple makes it much harder for a competitor "ad within the app" framework to exist.
I'm not really clear on what the gyroscope adds that wasn't there before, can someone clarify?
Accelerometers can only detect orientation relative to gravity, gyros can detect it relative to themselves. This is the same thing that Nintendo added to their controllers a few months ago. For example I wrote an app that calculates Horsepower based on weight and acceleration, however it's hard to determine if detected acceleration is due to the vehicle or gravity (if the device tips or tilts during the test). By hav…