Who says developers can’t act mature? Even in a world that included WebOS, Android, Windows, Symbian, and iOS, for a long time all I heard about was iOS Objective-C development. In 2011, I had one bank VP tell me that he expected to spend all of their money on iOS — even though that would risk [...]
After thinking about my piece on BlackBerry and the reasons for their strength in the enterprise, I realized why Samsung cannot claim victory with their new KNOX model. They are missing something. There are many good and critically important things about the Samsung KNOX. Both Ryan Faas’ article in CITEWorld and Jack Madden’s article at BrianMadden.com are good reads about the impact of dual [...]
I have been watching the BlackBerry announcements and strategy analysis with the same curiosity that many in our industry share. Whether you are Canadian, wish-to-be-Canadian, or aware-that-Canada-exists, if you’ve spent the past 15 years in the technology marketplace, you likely have a soft spot for the Waterloo firm that broke the mold for personal productivity. [...]
The number of mobile devices being introduced is creating a staggeringly fractured marketplace. This fracturing causes issues for developers as well as consumers. And it’s not just being caused by tablets, but also by laptop-esque touchscreens with instant-on and the like. Developers…where do you put your scarce resources for building applications? Consumers….which product do you [...]
When I used to run IT operations at a software CRM company called Clarify, I recall the staff lunches we used to go to in the South Bay. We would go to a restaurant and because of the bulky phones, etc., people would invariably toss their devices onto the table. Which then became a game [...]
As I mentioned in a recent post, there are two BYOD needs on a single device: 1) real-time, bite-sized apps via the app stores and 2) corporate productivity apps. And Microsoft is well positioned on both. While Microsoft is light on content in their app store, they do have a decent running start: Xbox Live and [...]
The definition of mobility has changed. And it has flipped the computing ecosystem. And by the end of this post, I will share with you some shocking news. Microsoft was so far behind, it might be ahead. (Disclaimer: of course that depends on how much they listen to me, out in this far corner of the [...]
Our CEO Peter Badger had a chance to play with a Microsoft Surface tablet the day they announced it. As we noted here and on Twitter, he wasn’t impressed. However, that didn’t stop him from buying one and running it through his paces alongside his other tablets here in the Framehawk office “proving ground” (AKA [...]
People turn to vastly different sources to predict the future. A crystal ball. Tea leaves. The Mayan calendar. Industry analysts. Those sorts of things. For IT trends, I like to look at patterns from the past year. It may not be 100% foolproof, but we all know how the predicted Mayan end-of-the-world thing turned out, [...]
The ghost suddenly appeared from behind the bed curtains, rattling the old Ethernet cables dangling from its arms. “Wh-who-who are you?” Scrooge gasped. “I am your old IT guy, Jacob Marley. The one who left to take a job at that hot start-up…” “What are you doing here?” “I’m here to warn you, Scrooge,” the [...]