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Bad year for IT ahead

This is going to be a bad year for IT. While budgeting delays may seem to be the main cause for that, and assuming the current economic crisis is coming to close, I think there is more to it then that.

Year of the iKiller

This year will be the year in which all consumer electronics will be judged in the shadow of Apple.

  • Everyone seems to need an app shop. The shops will be judged by the numbers of applications available, and not by the quality of software provided.
  • Any new tablet device will be judged by the Apple tablet. If Apple neglects to bring one out, it will be judged by how Apple would have made it... And, of course, by it's application shop...
  • The new iPhone will most defiantly be an iPhone killer. 

All of this will be both good and bad for Apple. It will strengthen it's position as a market leader but will also create end-to-end user experiences (device to service) in which apple might not have a hold, or even a share. This will not be a terrible plow to Apple, as it's availability on more US carriers will, at least in the short run, compensate for that.

This is not the Android you are looking for

The Google Phone will most likely be remembered as the spaghetti phone. Whether of not this is a reference device for Google and other developers, or an actual device aimed at consumers or carriers is not relevant right now. It will be relevant when Google will find it to be relevant.

Chrome for Mac is ... not quite here

Google Chrome for Mac (Beta) is here!

Five minutes in to using Gmail crashed, loosing my mail. Ten minutes later waves collapsed. Other then Google sites, other sites seems to work fine.

Strange.

Mind you, they did crash fast!

Dinosaurification

When a corporation is described as a dinosaur, it usually means that it has become two big and too slow for it's environment. IBM was an example of this. Trying to treat the PC market as they did the mainframe market, they were outsmarted by the new mammal in town, Microsoft.

Watching spaghetti fly

I am not sure if it indeed Stan Hunterton who coined this term, but it has come to be associated with the way Google develops and deploys new technologies. Wave and ChromeOS are repeats of this. 

Working on 5 to 9

Screen format seems to be the playing ground:

 

  • up to 5" - players and smartphones 
  • 9" to 12" - Netbooks 
  •  12" to 15" - Notebooks and laptops 
  • 19" and above - desktop screens 

 

If you rebuild it, they will come

It has been quit a while since I used this site for blogging. Having free time allowed me to upgrade the site from Drupal 4 to Drupal 6, and to start thinking about blogging in English (my Hebrew blog is available here).

One updated, I've put in a blog post. Less then 12 hours passed, and the spambots arrived...

I wonder, was that a result of the blog post, or my implementation of sitemaps?

G!

Looking at the new google interface one indeed may wonder what was google thinking.
One of the important factors of google clean interface was the it worked so well with their advertising system. Are they looking for a way to remove the attention from the advertisements? I don't think so.

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