Close on the heels of the G1 selling one million units, Venturebeat reports HTC would be launching the HTC Magic next week.
This is exciting stuff, as reviews have confirmed that HTC Magic is a much sexier version of G1.
Tags: android, Android G1, Android G2, HTC MagicInformationWeek reveals that T-Mobile has sold more than a million Android G1 phones. This is great news for Android platform. The success of the G1 would ensure more interest in the Android platform. As we have already stated, we think the Android platform is going to gain tremendous momentum in the coming quarters.
Tags: androidSome big news this morning. Oracle is set to buy Sun Microsystems.
This is huge, and we think is going to change a lot of things.It would be interesting to see how Oracle treats MySQL.
Tags: Acquisitions, MySQL, Oracle, SunGoogle today announced the early look of the much awaited Android ‘Cupcake’ SDK which would now be SDK 1.5
This adds lots of goodies to the Android SDK. One of the best features we like is the ability to target different Android platform versions from within a single SDK installation.
This takes away a lot of our pain.
Walt Mossberg has written a great piece on the on going Smartphone Wars. He describes the various platforms, their strengths and weaknesses.
Tags: SmartphonesThere is an intense debate going on at Venturebeat as to why developers are preferring Apple iPhone platform over the competing platforms.Here are our thoughts on this debate
Firstly, this is the classic case of a company identifying a specific need in a market, and then launching an offering that successfully fulfills this need. Apple has planned and executed the iPhone strategy to perfection. Others can just watch in awe and try to catch up.
We attribute the success of the iPhone platform to primarily 2 reasons
1. As most Apple offerings, It just works. As a developer, iPhone is probably the most hassle free platform you can develop on. The platform provides some great tools for development. The device and OS experience is consistent with few strings attached. This is an advantage when the company owns the whole widget
2. The power to decide has shifted from the ‘Enterprise’ to the ‘Consumer’. Now this is a huge shift. The consumer’s imagination has been fueled by the pathbreaking features the iPhone provides. Such features had never been seen before, and human imagination simply feeds off such innovation.
Elaboration on point number 2, never before had the user been given so much power to decide what apps they had wanted. The onus was on the handset vendor, the carrier and the software vendor. These organizations are large and bureaucratic, stifling innovation. Rest assured, many an app has died a silent death, due to multiple meetings, approvals and sign off required from a zillion stakeholders.
The iPhone is the world’s greatest ‘live’ market research going on, and the feedback is instantaneous.
Now conceptualizing and monetizing an app is as easy as ‘Develop’, ‘Test’, ‘Distribute’ as advertised in the iPhone Developer portal. Many of the apps we develop,are conceptualized by individuals who have come up with a great idea. Match human ingenuity with innovation and the result is brilliance. Most of our clients have zero development experience, but they know how the features of the iPhone can help find a solution to their needs/their industry’s problems.
Now, what do the other platforms have to offer? Well Android is the closest to the iPhone platform and the most developer friendly. The signup and upload process is easier than the iPhone. RIM Appworld is coming up well, but it still has a long way to go. Win Mo and Symbian have the greatest inertia and the longest legacy to manage.
Now wonder, most of our clients want us to start with iPhone, and then port the app for Android, Blackberry,Symbian, Win Mo and Palm Web OS , mostly in this order.
Will the others catch up, well it is for time to tell, but we are happy with the innovation that is happening all around!
Tags: android, Blackberry, iPhone, Newgenapps, Palm Web OS, Win MoHi Folks,
Thanks a lot for all your support while we were away. We have been busy working on some great ideas with some really innovative companies. Soon, we would be detailing out the apps we have been working on.
We would also be more active in posting on this blog and bring you the latest updates at New Generation Applications and our take on the happenings in this space!
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