David Tsao

Android and Apple: Smartphones Require Smart Strategy

I've been dabbling with the Android OS recently and I have to say it is promising. But GSlusher is right. The biggest hurdle is the fact there is a risk of a splintering effect that development teams will have to manage for Android OS 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, etc. Throw in multiple hardware configurations and the law that bugs happen, and you have a problematic situation. The Android framework is supposed to abstract these differences to make it easier. The jury is still out. The two companies that should be worried are Microsoft and Research in Motion.

Apple has it's own mojo going and will be leaders for quite some time.

Android and Apple: Smartphones Require Smart Strategy

I've been dabbling with the Android OS recently and I have to say it is promising. But GSlusher is right. The biggest hurdle is the fact there is a risk of a splintering effect that development teams will have to manage for Android OS 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, etc. Throw in multiple hardware configurations and the law that bugs happen, and you have a problematic situation. The Android framework is supposed to abstract these differences to make it easier. The jury is still out. The two companies that should be worried are Microsoft and Research in Motion.

Apple has it's own mojo going and will be leaders for quite some time.

Microsoft's Cash-Back Search: Return of the Sneakerphone

To continue the argument... I decided to try live.com to search for the one of the hottest things around now... the Ninentedo Wii.

search.live.com/result...

What you end up seeing is the top half of the page reserved for sponsored links, and videos. I have to move down to the bottom half of the page to see my search results. What makes Microsoft think that I care for videos?

Just give me what I want.

Microsoft's Cash-Back Search: Return of the Sneakerphone

Microsoft just needs to build a better search engine, plain and simple. Incentive gimmicks don't work. If you want me to use your search engine, make it good so that I use live.com to find something... not for some cash handout. At the end of the day you haven't solved my problem which is to find something quickly and that is also relevant.

I'm not sure who at MSFT conjured up this idea, but my guess it was some "ingenious" idea that arose from the marketing team. Get back to the basics. You have a smart engineering team, leverage it.

Behind the Myths of Cloud Computing

These are very general statements about cloud computing usage going out to 2010-2012. Even if the research comes from Gartner, there are major adoption issues at the ground level for the engineers that actually build the applications.

You can see my full comments about this subject here:
seekingalpha.com/artic...

Micro-Hoo!™: Desktop vs. Internet

Everything taken with a grain of salt... Barry's take on people using their hotmail account for garbage, rings true for me. I thought that was funny.