Mark Bridge writes:
“Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool, loving both of you is breaking all the rules”.
Mary McGregor sang those words in 1976 – and Apple would do well to bear them in mind today. Why? Well, Rick Astley is to blame for it all.
Oh, alright, Rick’s not personally involved. It’s worm-writer ikee, along with the people who’ve followed him in creating security threats for the Apple iPhone. But why am I invoking the lyrics of Mary McGregor? It’s because Apple has two loves... and it may be struggling to choose between them.
Samsung. Huawei. Acer. HTC. Motorola. LG. Toshiba. Sony Ericsson. INQ. Dell. They’re all after a slice of the Android cake. (The Android cake is an éclair at the moment. Not particularly good for slicing. But I digress).
And my, what advertisements we’ve seen. Most recently Motorola has been knocking the iPhone while HTC has been playing with marker pens.
But those ad campaigns are mainly about manufacturers and phones. As you’d expect, really. Not about Android.
James Rosewell writes:
One paisa is equivalent to 1/100 of an Indian rupee. In American dollars, a paisa is worth 0.00022 cents. For the British reading this, that’s 0.00013 pence.
Why is this important?
A company in India called MTS have launched a pay as you go SIM card that allows you to make on-network calls for ½ paisa per second...
Cain and Abel. Price and Andre. Judge Dredd and Rico. History is full of pairings that didn’t work out. Two forces that started off together but ended up trying to destroy each other. And so it could be with mobile phone operating systems.
This week it’s been reported that Nokia will be dropping Symbian from its N-series devices by 2012, favouring Maemo instead.
This week there’s a government exercise taking place in London. A number of civil servants and private sector employees are simulating the failure of the UK’s fixed-line telephone network. Called “White Noise”, it imagines a scenario where telephone exchanges are destroyed by a giant subterranean monster that pulls really hard on all those underground cables.
Monday, May 14, 2007
The team debate the merits of the Mobile Internet, bring you mobile news from the past 7 days, review the Orange SPV M700 and Sony Ericsson P1i, plus look at X-Men Genetix and Total Recall mobile software.
Categories: PodcastsNumber of views: 9758
Tags: InfoGin
Copyright 2006 - 2024 by thefonecast.com. First and third party cookies are used on our site.
Terms Of Use | Privacy Statement