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Developing for iPhone is a hot topic. Many developers are not only having to learn Apple’s Objective C and the Cocoa application framework, but are also new to mobile development. It is a big shift. Josh Clark is a iPhone designer, and his book Tapworthy is about how to design apps that people will …continue reading Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark Oracle is suing Google over Java in Android; the Register has a link to the complaint itself which lists seven patents which Oracle claims Google has infringed. There is also a further clause which says Google has infringed copyright in the: code, specifications, documentation and other materials) that is copyrightable subject matter and that …continue reading Apple not Android is killing client-side Java – so why is Oracle suing Google? This should be three blog posts; but you’ve read this news elsewhere. Still, I can’t resist a brief comment on three recent trends. Browsers The first is that usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has levelled off after a long period of decline. Microsoft says it is increasing but the numbers are too small to …continue reading Stats that matter: Android grows in mobile, IE stops declining, eBooks take off Never mind the books. Amazon’s new Kindle reader is offering as an “experimental feature” a web browser based on WebKit – the same engine as Apple Safari and Google Chrome – that is free to use over 3G networks: New WebKit-Based Browser Kindle’s new web browser is based on WebKit to provide a better …continue reading New Amazon Kindle with WebKit browser and free 3G internet I attended a Microsoft briefing on Windows Phone 7 (WP7) yesterday. Here’s a quick summary of what interested me. It does appear to be a decent phone. Unfortunately I’ve not yet received a preview device, but there’s no doubt that the user experience is well ahead of that on previous Windows Mobile devices. The …continue reading Windows Phone 7 briefing report: no enterprise app deployment at launch HP’s Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of Personal Systems and formerly CEO of Palm, was interviewed by Jon Fortt at CNBC. Fortt asks some great questions which mostly get woolly answers, but did get this statement from Bradley: We will not do a Linux, Android phone. We won’t do a Microsoft Phone … we’ll …continue reading HP will not do Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphones – but what chance for webOS? Microsoft watchers have been scrutinising the fascinating Mini-Microsoft post on the Kin smartphone debacle and what it says about the company. If it is even slightly accurate, it is pretty bad; and it must be somewhat accurate since we know that the hopeless Kin launch happened and that the product was killed shortly afterwards. …continue reading Dysfunctional Microsoft? I’ve been trying out iPhone 4 since its launch on Thursday this week. My main interest is software development, and I have a couple of ideas for apps. Apple’s platform is annoying in several respects, especially the App Store lock-in and the Apple tax, but it is unavoidable. Unfortunately when a company gets the …continue reading Two days with Apple iPhone 4 I’m at an Adobe partner conference in Amsterdam – not for the partner sessions, but to be one of the judges for tomorrow’s application showcase. However, I’ve been chatting to Michael Chaize, a Flash Platform evangelist based in Paris, and picked up a few updates on the progress of Flash and AIR on mobile …continue reading Flash and AIR for Windows Phone 7 by mid 2011? Here at TechEd in New Orleans we’ve seen some further demos of Windows Phone 7. Two features that have been highlighted are the ability to have more then one Exchange account, and a mobile version of SharePoint Workspace for easy access to SharePoint documents and an option to keep an offline copy. Neither of …continue reading Windows Phone 7: is it really consumer? |
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