MIH SWAT

A few months ago i had the pleasure of getting to know the Android SDK and got to create a prototype Android game. For this reason I got to use a HTC Magic running a standard Android 1.6 or Donut as its known to the Android community. I have since rooted the phone and flashed the ROM with several community created ROMs. I had a ROM running HTC’s Sense User Interface(UI) , which is a layer on top of the standard Android UI. Since then I got tasked with creating an iPhone application and obviously I would need to use a iPhone as development phone. At this stage it dawned on me that nowhere on the tech blogs have I read a blog post describing a Android user having to adjust to the iPhone OS. (more…)

Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone , I was both excited and nervous (more…)

I recently used an iPhone for the first time, and my reaction to the device was decidedly negative. Because I am a long-time and dedicated Blackberry user, you may not be surprised by my reaction – but I feel it is worth exploring why I dislike the device. (more…)

An interesting website to visit from time to time is MarketShare. There you can find market share statistics on a number of technologies, such as browsers, operating systems, search platforms, and the like. As a committed Linux user, I’m always interested to note the progress (or lack thereof) of Linux’s market penetration, and visited recently to see if there had been any. The answer, sadly, is not really. (more…)

Android will beat the iPhone in the long run, for the same reasons that PCs became more popular than Macs. PCs are more diverse, more open, and therefore have more applications; they are capable of becoming more specialized and therefore more useful in many different scenarios. (more…)

When we talk about Apple, mankind is pretty much divided into three camps: lovers, haters and developers. Seriously, I never thought the day would come when I’d say such a thing, but the fact is: Apple needs the other Steve. (more…)