I can't speak from my own experience. But if I understand this correctly, the successor to Windows Mobile is nothing like Windows Mobile, and on top of that, apparently, it doesn't suck. After reading a few reviews, and lastly this one from Techcrunch, I am actually curious to see how good it really is. Imagine that.
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/19/pre-review-preview-windows-phone-7-2/As an app developer for android, I have noticed an interesting shift in development tools. Google, creator of Android, has released the AppInventor, allbeit with a beta label attached. Result of that label is limited access (for now) but that will probably change.
I'm a google fan. I love almost anything google makes. I started using gmail back when it was only on invitation (private beta). I started using Google Apps (then called "Apps for your Domain") as soon as it became available. I remember when google was setting up google docs by buying Writely and intergrating it into their services.
Yesterday I tried Google's navigation. I live in the Netherlands, so it was the first time for me. Actually, I just read it was even launched yesterday! I had a trip planned to a friends house. I really wanted to compare Google's navigation to TomTom's, which has longtime been superior.
I therefore setup the TT, and the navigation on my G1 (yes, the original G1). Conclusions are simple. Google's product is fine. TT's maps are a little clearer when driving (I don't have the lates generation of TT), otherwise it was fine.
No, my birthday has nothing to do with apple's keynote yesterday.
Slightly disappointed, I found out after a fabulous dinner at my friends house that Apple's keynote was only about the new iphone. Yes, we all agree, the new iPhone is a very good evolution to the last model (3gs), nicely packaged, good hardware and great software improvements. It's a beautiful piece of engineering.
But, we were all expecting more. iTunes has been rumored after the keynote though, but that's no biggie as a new iphone is to be released in the wild, a new iTunes version is logical. So what else?
Well, what about OSX 10.7? It's out there, but apparently still being tested.
What about iTunes cloud?
I am a heavy itunes user, but I am actively on the lookout for a model to bring my content to the cloud - and an iTunes cloud service would be great. Knowing apple though, it will probably be paid, and Google is rumored to launch Google Music anytime soon, so I might go for a combined model: iTunes to get the content, Google to play it where I want it to.
Being a heavy google user, android fanboy and (junior android developer), I am looking into ways of using something like Android to power a media solution at home that talks to the clouds for it's content. Funny enough, Apple is rumored to do the same(ish) with the successor of the apple tv, which is supposed to be some form of ipod touch with network disk options.
After Apple started to call flash evil, the company has found a friend in enemy google: google also loves html5. The big question is, of course, is flash dead and buried?
I told my wife many years ago that linux would one day run everything. From that moment on, I have seen a gradual move from linux running servers to linux running embedded in hardware, to moving to cellphones and the likes.
Today proves I was right then. But it happened right and for the right reasons, not just because it had to...
