Category — Software

Google, yesterday announced ‘Android’, a new Linux and Java based OS for phones but didn’t say anything about a physical gPhone. I’m very disappointed because I think it would get competetive towards Apple’s Iphone. I guess Apple will continue to rein on the cell phone market for now. One thing I do like, however is the fact that Google is distributing this to cell phone makers such at Motorola (Apple and Blackberry aren’t a part of this list) making a bigger market than the Iphone. Also this software is going to be mostly open unlike the Iphone in which it is definitely closed. I’m interested to see how successful this will be. My guess is it will probably fail. I was hoping for an actual physical phone.

I recently read an article on Wired that claimed they thought Firefox maybe the new IE. The article stated that newer releases of the software have been sluggish and unstable. Where went that Firefox we saw in 1.0? This seems to happen a lot when an open source company gains lots of the market. The company rolls out new features and doesn’t really pay attention to the stability and performance of the software itself. Wired News has a theory that when 3rd party add-ons started showing stability and performance issues, Mozilla put the best of the best into its browser. Instead of having the users add what they want to add (such as spell checker and the RSS reader) people who rarely use them are pretty much stuck with them. If this keeps happening, there could be some real problems with the browser in the future.