While the assessment Dave makes is a little strong (I might go with very sick, not dead) he is exactly right. But Pankaj, this has very little to do with coding and languages. This has to do with one of the most adept market assessments and most elegant strategic moves we have seen. talk all you want about Apples superior style, technology and cool factor, but this move into mobile hardware is brilliant.
Apples sniffed out an industry that was divided into two disfunctional factions. The carriers, who are making the exact same strategic mistakes they made as long distance providers 20 years ago, and hardware manufacturers - also repeating old mistakes. The carriers are still caught up in creating barriers for consumers to maximize profit. Hand set makers are driving with technology first, the user second. The iPhone is fundamentally changing the functional, developmental, and the business landscape of the mobile phone industry. This is a fast and remarkably transparent market take over. If you have any aspirations of being an entrepreneur you should be following this very closely. It is a lesson in how to own an market. Lastly, and likely most importantly, pay attention, these kind of changes in the market always present large opportunities for folks like us. Mark On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Pankaj Chawla wrote: >> BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon >> is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but >> now they are even more dead. Google's Android is dead. Samsung is >> dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead. > > I dont know about others but Nokia sure aint dead. It recently bought > a company called Trolltech that makes C++ toolkit by the names of Qt > for desktops and Qtopia for the mobile world. Its a proven technology > and extensively used for a decade now and what makes it beautiful is > that your application code is same for Windows, Unix and Mac (Yes, Qt > is available on Mac also). To top it all it also has the same toolkit > targetted for Java by the name QT Jambi. It comes with thousands > of programmers who have been programming using it for a decade and > since the toolkit scales from mobiles to desktops seamlessly and from > Windows to Mac to Linux also seamlessely, its one power weapon that > Nokia just acquired. It just needs to be seen how Nokia uses this to > combat Iphone API and Google Android but if I as a developer have to > bet my money I will surely put a large bet on Nokia-Trolltech combine > though I wont ignore Iphone API and Android totally :). Nokia through > Trolltech also gets onto the LiMo (Linux Mobile) platform and I wont > be surprised if symbian gives way to LiMo-Qt combination in future > Nokia devices and that sure will be one hell of a platform to beat :-) > > Cheers > Pankaj > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
