By Greg Mills
The web is loaded today with Kindle Fire news stories, some suggesting the dread iPad killer has landed … Not really, not for a lot of reasons. A souped-up book reader that can also run a version of the Android OS, but has a small screen and lackluster features isn’t comparable to the iPad.
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By Greg Mills
Android is turning out to be, as Steve Jobs likes to put it, “a bag of hurt,” Not only are all the Android handset makers fighting Apple in courts and import agencies around the world, Oracle has Google over the barrel for intentionally using patented Java without a license. The intentional part will likely cost Google a bundle as Oracle has found a “smoking gun” set of email proving that Google, at the highest levels, knew and intentionally used Java in the Android OS without a license.
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By Greg Mills
Apple, having been stung in the recent iPhone tracking flap, has joined another industry group to lobby for better definition of privacy rights related to data on mobile devices, the cloud and ISP servers.
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By Greg Mills
Flummoxed means confused and bewildered, not dead. When Steve Jobs pronounced the iPad competition flummoxed, he said what he felt and he was right.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The press, especially MSNBC, is loaded these days with glowing stories about Microsoft’s Windows 8. I do not claim to be an expert on anything Microsoft, as I avoid their software like the plague. In my experience, OS X almost never crashes, but when it does go down, it is normally a Microsoft app that did it.
I have noticed interesting differences between Apple and Microsoft in their strategic approach to mobile platforms. That is the focus of this article.
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