I’ve been using OS X Lion, the new Apple Mac operating system for a couple of days and I have relearned an important lesson about application design: when designing applications, more is often less. Overall I have found the refinements in the OS X Lion user experience delightful. The…
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Early Adopters vs Mainstream Customers; Android vs iPhone
Since the iPhone 4 began shipping a couple of days ago I have read a multitude of articles comparing this new phone to various Android based devices, generally focused on the newer Droids. I think the authors writing these comparisons miss the point; these devices are serving very different marketplaces…
Thoughts About Clouds
My thoughts about the evolution of cloud computing and cloud telephony. Let’s begin by thinking about the history of computing. First we had mainframes, since they were very expensive we shared them, hence timesharing. Then as computers became smaller and more inexpensive we put mini-computers in our businesses, and…