I’m an Apple Fanboy, for many, many years now. I owned an Apple IIe in 1978 and now, 2010, several Macs and an iPhone.
And I know, when I surf a Flash web site, my Mac’s ventilator often starts to run or my Firefox browser or even Google Chrome crashes because of the heavy load nature of [...]

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Although there might be – meanwhile – better Android Devices than the Nexus One (e.g. the HTC Incredible or the HTC Evo) the last days have demonstrated why it might be, I believe it is an advantage to own a Nexus phone.
Only one day after the GoogleIO Nexus owners can now update their their phones [...]

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Android will succeed, no doubt.
By the end of the year 2012 it will dominate the mobile browsing and the mobile handset market – all over the world, I’m sure.
But as Android is an open operating system there’s no guarantee for success for those companies using Android, and especially no guarantee for a continuos success even if you’ve [...]

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If you read this rather old blog entry you will soon understand why Google is what Google is today.
This post demonstrates Google totally or at least mainly focuses on technical skills, when they recruit new staff.
Maybe that’s also the reason why Google performs very well concerning their search engine, search algorithms and in finding new [...]

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Then here I have probably something for you:

And comparable to the huge numbers of specialized web communities I believe it also make sense to deploy more and topic driven markets. On the one hand side the standard markets like the Android market will become more and more overcrowded and on the other side people get [...]

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Many people tried in the past to access the Android Market from own web or native clients in order to mash up market information with own content.
This hasn’t been an easy task since now thus there’s no official API for that. Nevertheless some did it either by decompiling the market app, understood and reproduced the [...]

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Many people ask me, why I prefer Android over the iPhone although I own, with the iPhone 3GS, one of the best, many people would say The best, smartphones ever.
And to answer this difficult question I’ve to go back a while:
In the last seven years I owned many mobiles – really many. Being responsible for [...]

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Despite all the entitled discussions around fragmentation the Android platform will, in the end, win (the mass consumer).
And with the mass consumer comes the money, especially when you drive your business like Google does.
Android will attract the mass consumer, because with the Android OS many newcomers and companies in emerging markets have now the chance to produce [...]

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From time to time I try to influence some decision makers in banks to start with Social Media and to use Twitter. It has been a hard job in the past so far.
But since yesterday it even will be become much harder.
The problem of Social Media and Twitter in special: They are, technically seen, build [...]

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With just one week to go until MoMo Berlin on March 8th, we’re proud to announce the world premiere of a mobile application/ service made in Berlin on that date: “Friendticker”. Friendticker CEO Florian says that their aim is to give foursquare et al. a run for their money by adding real-life value to a [...]

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In my eyes problems of the worldwide hype of the open and modern mobile operating system Android are, besides the missing native Android desktop client, the following:

The agility, the openness and the dynamic of Android produces very fast and often new versions with new and cool functionality. This leads to the fact that just released [...]

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Yesterday I’ve used AppAware for the first time, and I was really impressed.
Impressed about the idea behind this service and impressed about the Android technology used for this app.

AppAware, once installed on your Android device, informs your followers (including Twitter if you like to) about your app usage (“what do I install and deinstall?”).
But AppAware [...]

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… I guess we would have seen brilliant working, stable, fully integrated and tested clients in every Apple layer.
Google has surprised us with a brilliant idea, but with a bit confusing, instable and heterogeneous clients (especially for the mobile), but Buzz is free for all and available for almost every operation system and mobile.
Google created Android, [...]

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With the first m2d2 MobileMonday Germany has ventured into a new event-format.
As globally renowned thought-leaders of the Mobile Internet development we know this to be the time to address You, the Mobile developer community, with our brand new format, which is aimed to go well beyond our regular meetings.
Celebrating this birthday we are delighted to [...]

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Mashable today reports about a coming Google App Store. Is that the app store, we have waited for so long? The post relates to Google Apps and says nothing about Android or the technology which will be used for deployment and development.
Google needs an app store on the client. Not only because Apple has one [...]

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A lot of people are criticizing the app store model as a model which reduces the freedom of app development and thus the development and the creativity of the internet and the computer industry in general.
But, although and technical seen, nearly every app store model is the same, they aren’t at all, [...]

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I own two MacBooks and an iMac7. I’m buying Apple since 1978, so I’m indeed no one trying to bash Apple.
But besides the fact that the tablet architecture in general isn’t a suitable model for me and my use cases, because if I have the space for a tablet, I prefer my MacBook [...]

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What we’ve seen in 2009 was the year of the Mobile App and the Mobile App Market (although everybody has claimed this year as the year of the Mobile Internet).
We’ve learned the Mobile App can make money and can solve some today’s publisher’s issues either.
And the forecast for 2010 and the following years is even [...]

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Many things have changed in the last 12-24 months. Google is extending and has widely extended its services.
As many news already have summarized: 2010 will be the year of Google.
So why shouldn’t we create a new job profile, a new job specialization?
Somebody, who knows all the services and solutions of Google and thus can advice [...]

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In the last days there is breaking out a fight among developers (and others) again.
Which is the best approach to develop mobile apps? Web or Rich Client (native apps)?
I say: Take the best of both and develop Hybid Mobile Apps, which look like rich clients, behave and will be installed like Rich Clients, but which [...]

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