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January 18, 2008
What we have here, iAndroid, is a failure to Navigate
Tom Howe, who is track chair for Spring VON’s Unconference and Innovators Forum has two very good posts on the smartphone opportunities. The first as a guest on Om Malik’s GigaOM, Tom shares his thoughts on the concerns about Android.
I have been subscribed to the message board and at some point I was trying to figure out a way to give a read out, but the noise level made me abandon the idea of giving a good synopsis.
Here is what I think I know about Android. Google has a RIM like development tool. It is not mind blowing and in the end the navigation is not clearly intuitive. App developers are going to be regulated to submenus and its not clear how that the protection from malware is sufficient for badly coded apps, and subscribers ability to remove things after they have been put on the phone. Additionally, it looks like there will be flavors of phones that will require careful consideration in the look, feel and navigation of the devices.
The second post is on Tom’s own blog about the MacWorld announcement that in this new release of iPhone software the top menu can be added to by developer’s. This combined with some of the cool apps that are still being displayed by the likes of Google with gOffice and ZoHo with iZoho .
PS apologies to Cool Hand Luke and Issac’s Asminov’s I, Robot
Background
http://gigaom.com/2008/01/12/5-who-wont-appreciate-google-android/
http://thethomashowecompany.com/339/new-iphone-release-is-groundbreaking
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/17/five-unsung-iphone-applications-most-of-them-free/
Posted by carl at January 18, 2008 06:58 AM