Jahangir Naina

Microsoft Acquires Danger: Is it an Answer to iPhone or Android?

Anyone who have used Windows Mobile phones can attest to the fact that total user experience is really quite bad. There is a lack of integration finesse, and the end product feels like two separate teams working in isolation were brought together only at the last moment before shipping to fit the software and hardware components together. Thus the WinMo model of commodity software loosely engineered to fit feature rich, but poorly integrated hardware, ultimately does not produce the kind of user experience that the Blackberry or iPhone offers. Microsoft is going to do a Zune to the WinMo consortium, what they did to the PlaysForSure consortium. Bring out a totally integrated Phone (hardware, software and cloud services totally integrated) and sold only by Microsoft.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

The Macbook Air makes more sense if you live or have traveled to Asia. Sub Notebooks are the rage here, with the likes of Sony, Samsung and Fujitsu successfully selling millions of similar slivers of technology to executives, fashionasitas and the female user population. In Asia lugging around an ugly Dell or be seen in a Starbucks with it is considered a major fashion faux pas. The Macbook Air is the first real indication that Apple is finally taking the Asian market seriously and going after it in a major way. So yes, the Macbook Air will look strange to most Yanks, just as Hello Kitty, Pokemon, Karaoke, Cosplay, Anime, etc still do. But in Asia and the rest of the hip capitals of the world, the Air is going to sell very well.