Jacob’s Lifestream

Another "everyone else against Apple battle" is coming, with Android looking to be the better OS around which an ecosystem grows and thrives. There's a Star Wars metaphor here somewhere. Apple lost out to DOS/Windows because of the attack of the PC clones. Now the droids are coming for iPhone. Apple's power is the Force -- blogger and journalist enthusiasts like Robert Scoble. Can the Force win? I say no, but you tell me. That's what comments are for.

I don't completely agree with Joe Wilcox. But he does have some valid points.

I don't think iPhone will "lose" this "war". But I do think that Google's Android will be a strong competitor.

It all depends on how much control Apple is willing to give up. On the "professionals" side.

On the "consumer" side, I think it's about sexy, fun and usability.

I'm writing a blog post at the moment, about how I think the smartphone battle is over already. RIP smartphones.

And hello LifeDevice (tm).
Ok, so it's not trademarked, but it is a term I coined myself ;)

Basically, I agree with Wilcox that the ecosystem is everything. But that ecosystem includes the applications as well as the operating system. Basically all the funtionality that enable you to produce content, as well as consume content.

But more on that in my forthcoming blogpost.

For now, I'm on Scoble's side. But Wilcox has some valid points.

BRUXELLES — La Commission européenne a demandé à Apple des explications sur les explosions d'écrans de ses iPhone et a averti lundi qu'elle n'hésitera pas à ordonner leur retrait s'ils s'avèrent dangereux pour la santé.

Right. Don't know what that says, but I read the Danish article on it. All I have to say to the EU Commision is:

Good frackin' luck prying my iPhone from my hands.

iPhone ARider: Futuristic iPhone-based HMD navigation system (video)

I guess you'd HAVE to be japanese to find that way of implementing a cool concept, cool...

WidgetPad allows web developers to create iPhone applications using only their knowledge in web-based code. The software allows you to write your applications using web-based code and then transfer them to standalone apps for the iPhone or iPod touch.

Awesomesauce !

With the latest iPhone OS 3.1 update, iPhones start identifying themselves correctly, and if the ActiveSync policy configured by the administrator requires device encryption (see Figure 1 below), data on the device is encrypted. That's great news— unless you happen to have an older iPhone. If you're using the (Original/Classic/2G/1G?) iPhone , or the iPhone 3G, and device encryption is required, you will be unable to log on to your mailbox.

Important to remember these days, when execs start sporting iPhones.