Opinion: The problem with software patents? They don't scale
Ars Technica's Timothy B. Lee and Christina Mulligan put out a short and worthy read on a big reason why software patents just don't make sense.
→ Chris Pirillo’s father tries Windows 8
Chris Pirillo's father tries Windows 8
Microsoft has some work to do.
→ Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android
Over a month old. Well put. Fragmentation is only going to increase on the platform, but Android is here to stay. The fragmentation hurts the ability of the platform to hold value as a single platform, but it also assures it will live on in many forms.
→ Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
Last week Jesse Hicks at The Verge produced an incredible look at the fall of RIM.
It's possible RIM can be turned around. After all the currently most valuable company in the world was just 90 days from bankruptcy back in the late 90s. If RIM does pull out of this free fall, though, it's not going to be because it stuck to its guns. The company needs to see some massive internal change.
→ Android Measuring Stick
Extremely in-depth study of what the distribution of in-use Android versions looks like. Some truly excellent graphs and plenty of text describing what the graphs indicate.
Highlight:
It’s clear that Gingerbread has disseminated into the market much more slowly than either of Froyo or Eclair. In fact, it took Gingerbread about 17 weeks longer to reach a version distribution milestone (10%, 20%, 30%) than its two predecessors. While it is too early to fairly judge ICS’s trajectory, it certainly appears to have started at a slower pace than did Gingerbread (more on that later). A seemingly endless string of devices entering the market with Honeycomb and few older devices being upgraded to ICS makes it unlikely that we will see the Android version distribution improve in the near term.