So, recently I got a new computer at work. It's not really new - the hardware is a year old, but it's new to me. I asked for Vista on it since I was using Vista before on my aging Dell GX270. All I have to say is WOW. It makes such a difference to run Vista on capable hardware. I had no problems with vista on my aging GX270, even though boot-up was slow so I was not a hater.

Thinking about Vista's problems, here is what I think Microsoft should do with Windows 7

1. Vista is partly a PR problem. People think it sucks because people are running it on inferior hardware. Those people talk, and influence the thought of others. The stupid "I am a PC ads" don't work. They are...well...stupid! I think the Seinfeld+Gates ads were AWESOME! Get some better ads, bring back Seinfeld.


2. Get rid of legacy shit and let people know that you are doing so! Look at Apple. They buried MacOS 9. They made a mostly compatible layer called classic and shipped it with all PowerPC machines. Now with the Intel transition MacOS 9 is gone. Microsoft needs to get rid of Windows 3.x and 9x underpinnings. Make a separate sandbox for the old 3.x and 9x based apps, and let people know, given them a firm date on when you are stopping support. Work with your developers to make the transition smooth. People who need those old apps will still run XP but at least they won't badmouth your product.


3. Be more ridgid on what runs windows! Again, look at what Apple does. No need to support a million configurations, and no need to support el cheapo $500 PCs with Vista. Force manufacturers to get rid of those crapola cheap PCs and design an experience just like apple does. There is no need for experience and utility to be separate and mutually exclusive entities.


4. If you REALLY need to have cheap PCs and webtops running Vista,build a microPC version of Windows that runs MOST programs. Dont taint windows's name my trying to make it all things to all people. Look at the various linux webtops like the eeePC. Their version of the OS is not the same as one you would find on the desktop and for good reason. Maybe you could assist your developers to create those webtop versions and have a way of marketing that it works with Windows-the-desktop-version and Windows-the-webtop-version.

5. Other people have said this, maybe this time you will listen. Get rid of those stupid and artificial distinctions between home basic, home premium, business and ultimate. Your BASIC BASIC sucks and it's more expensive than MacOS X (os x being $129 and home basic being $200). Just give everyone the Ultimate experience at the same Apple price of $129! If everyone has the same experience, everyone has the same basis for comparison. There should only be three versions of Windows: Server, Desktop (aka Vista/7 Ultimate) and Webtop.


Thus concludes my advice to Microsoft. Now go forth and stop shooting yourselves on the foot!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx

Tags: technology, microsoft, windows, opinion, vista

This is probably the weirdest game I've ever bought (by itself - not part of a bundle).

F15 is a flight simulator game where you pilot an F15 and go out and complete missions (I think this one took place during desert storm). Now I never was a flight simulator person. I would play a flight sim if I bought it as part of a package (just so I felt that my money wasn't wasted), but I never really went out of my way to buy a flight sim - except for this one.

So what happened? My friend's older brother played flight sims all the time, and it seemed that all the cool kids did so too! So in my 12-year-old-mind, if the cool kids are playing flight sim and they are by definition cool, then if you play flight sims, you are cool!

In any case, I bought the game and sunk a lot of time into it, not because I enjoyed the flight sim (I would rate this game a C+/B-), but because it took so damned long to get anywhere! I would put the game in autopilot and go grab a sandwich. By the time I got my sandwich I was at the destination I had to bomb.

Eh...I learned my lesson.

Tags: video, video games, games, gameboy, flightSimulator, simulator, sucks

OK, now I know that it's easy for people who don't code to be sofa commentators on what they would like to see in software packages, but I will do so anyway

I've been using canola a lot in the past few weeks as my media player of choice when I am using my N800 as a PMP and not as a tablet for browsing. Canola is a great piece of software that's missing some user interface elements, or some functionality that would make it event better. I've created some categories for improvements:


Radio
Internet Radio Directory - Inputting addresses for internet radio stations is a royal pain in the butt with Canola. What canola needs is an interface for a directory of internet radio station so that you can just add your favorites to a quick access list

More format support: Now this may be something that's out of reach, but I would love to see windows media, real and quicktime streaming formats supported (maybe work with VLC?)

FM Radio - The N800 sports a built-in FM radio (sadly no RDS support). Why can't I access the radio from Canola?


Podcasts
Podcast Directory integration - This is the same problem as the Internet Radio. Adding a podcast is a royal pain. Even when I export an XML file from iTunes Canola doesn't import it! Maybe Canola can work with podcastalley or podcaster to have a built-in directory for easy subscription and podcast exploration

Support for Video Podcasts - This is one of my bigger problems with the tablet. I am not sure if the N800 supports video podcasts that work on iPods (my tablet has played videos a bit choppy), there should be video podcast support in Canola.

Better TVersity support - Recently I discovered TVersity, and supposedly this work with Canola, but when I try to get G4's TVersity channel added to canola I run into problem.

Photos
Photo service Support - I know that there is a third party Flickr plugin (which doesn't work with the recent beta), but I would like to see Picassa support as well - officially


Television
IP TV support - I guess the model for this is Equinux's Media Central for the Mac. I would like to be able to see television from the channels available on Media Central, but I would also like to be able to access my Hulu and Joost accounts and view video from there, as well as CBS, ABC, and BBC websites. This would be pretty cool

Imagine how great of a PMP the internet tablet could be with these canola modifications!

Tags: N800, maemo, canola, media, player, suggestions, wishes

I wrote a few days ago about the need to write emails as a means of communication when we have SMS, blogs, microblogs, flickr and friendfeed to keep our friends and relatives up to date with our comings and goings.


Now, when I was in High School, and I had recently moved back from Greece, I had started to write letters to two or three friends of mine. My address became known and soon more friends had been writing to me and I back to them. This continued up until I was a sophomore or junior in college and at the climax of the letter writing years I had at least twenty to twenty-five pen pals from Greece, but also from Germany, Norway and China!


I enjoyed getting letters from friends and writing letters to friends. Letters took anywhere between two weeks to two months (depending on how frequent correspondence was), so news accumulated and you had something interesting to write! In addition you could take you time, compose your thoughts, bring out your best (or worst) penmanship and...well the only word that comes to mind is: accessorize.


Then all of my friend went to college too, and some who were older got jobs, so they stopped writing as often. Eventually when email was the new things in two (for them) they decided that they would email. This worked out well initially because people did not have too much time online so emails were still here-and-there and news was still plentifully.


Eventually, however, emails got sloppy - no subjects, two lines in the body like "how are you?" with nothing else - at this point I lost interest in correspondence, or emailed once in a blue moon when I had time to really write something that had attention to detail and would not be a canned email I could send to all my friends.


Now, I've lost day to day contact with many people I used to know, some that I consider good friends! It's time to pick up letter writing again - show attention to detail. No typed letters - handwritten, on good paper, with a good ol' postmark on 'em.


Sure it takes a week or more to receive it - but good things are worth waiting for!

Tags: letters, letter writing, old school, mail

Another Freebie on Hulu. This series is a Canadian series centering around NorBAC, a collaborative research laboratory between the US, Canada and Mexico. They are like the CDC on steroids. If there is an unexplained infection of virus, they're there!

Each season has an overarching disease they are fighting (or trying to find its origins) while injecting other personal issues into the mix, such as the main character's megalomania or...rather a-hole-ness. He's sort of like a mild version of House.

The first season features a kid that kept hounding the main doctor in the series to test him because he thought that he was a clone. Weird, but interesting.

The one bummer is that the series has four seasons (and still filming I think), but Hulu only has two season available! I hope more seasons are available soon.

Tags: canadian, scifi, immunology, television, entertainment, hulu, free

With Apple's removal of FIrewire 400 from all laptops, and complete removal of the port from the MacBook line, I am wondering if the firewire port is going the way of the dodo. I hope not because it's an technology!

Tags: technology, apple, SCSI, firewire, extinction

Thinking of retro operating systems, I had a bizarre realization the other day: out of all of the original PDA operating systems, Windows CE is the only one still evolving! If you think about it, the original PDA operating systems were these:


Apple's NewtonOS
Palm's PalmOS
Sharp's Synergy OS
Sony's MagicCap OS
Microsoft's Windows CE


Now Apple, Sony and Sharp came out of the PDA market and killed off their operating systems. Now I know that the Newton community still keeps the Newton current, but there is only so much enthusiasts can do with what they are given as building blocks. Palm is pulling a Commodore on us and keeps messing with the release dates and updates to the PalmOS. For all intents and purposes the PalmOS is dead.


Now Windows CE is really the only one that has endured! Sure the first versions were awful, but ten years later, it doesn't stink as much, and some people like it! (well some people like S&M too but anyway).


I find it interesting that Microsoft and Windows CE is the 'old school' that won the "PDA OS wars" and Apple and Google are the new guys entering the market.

Tags: technology, windows, Newton, palm, magiccap, PDA

I had a random thought the other day spurred by an email I had received by a friend of mine with a minor complaint that I don't email my news to said person that often. This got me thinking. So my question is this In the age of social networks, twitter, RSS and blogs, who still uses email as the only method to keep in touch?


Thinking of my online habits, I don't spent that much time in chat services as I used to. My work/life balance thing doesn't allow it. But there is a lot of information about what I think and do online. I use twitter, I write in my blogs, I post photos on my Flickr account and update my status in various social networks. And to make it convenient for people, I use friendfeed.


With so much information about what's going on in my life, taking 5 minutes to email each individual person I know with the same news seems like a waste of time. I always thought of email as impersonal, and I would prefer to write a letter to someone to keep in contact, but is it really necessary for regular news dispersing communications these days?

Tags: technology, communication, web2, blog, twitter, questions

Terminator 2 was a video game that I loved to hate! I bought termnator 2 for the game boy when I was still living in Greece and I was vacationing in the USA. I was quite a huge terminator fan (still am) and I wanted to play the game. I don't recall what I expected from a game based on a movie franchise, but I remember liking it and then getting really frustrated and hating it.

In the game you start off as John Connor in the future. You start off trying to infiltrate Skynet's fortress so that you can get your hands on a T800 and send it back through time. Once you do that, you play as the T800 protecting John Connor's younger self.

The game was great and it sucked you into the world, one problem - I disliked puzzles back then (with the exception of Tetris). After you infiltrate skynet, you have to play this set of puzzle games to reprogram the T800. I kept failing in the last puzzle and eventually got booted back to the beginning of the game - frustration!

It may be good revising this game at some point in the future

Tags: entertainment, video, video games, games, gameboy, terminator

I stumbled upon this article about a month ago, and I just had the opportunity to read it (my google reader starred items is backed up to the wazzoo).

Anyway, the article talks about alternative operating systems to MacOS, Windows, Linux, and the various popular UNIX variants (BSD, Solaris). I think that alternative operating systems should be encouraged, but at the moment they are of limited utility.

Looking at this list I see THREE amiga OS based/inspired operating systems. AmigaOS 4.1, AROS, and MorphOS. While I would love to use these operating systems. AmigaOS and MorphOS (the two commercially sponsored operating systems) do not work on x86! So I am not able to install on my mac under bootcamp or parallels! An AROS is more of a hobby project so useful applications aren't available in large number.

The remaining operating systems are nice attempts, and I hope they gain more support, but at the moment I feel like they aren't ready to replace my main OS - just like I thought linux wasn't going to replace my main OS five years ago.

With a little community support - and having them run on x86 - these operating systems can flourish. If you see a free one that you are curious about, I encourage you to download it an try it out.

Tags: technology, operating, system, amiga, BeOS

With the arrival of Nokia chat (beta), nokia created a conduit for the N800/N810 internet tablet devices which allows you to use your Nokia chat account with the internet tablet. Pretty good idea think I!

Now I know that it's easier to create a conduit for Nokia Chat for the N800 because nokia chat works on the XMPP/Jabber which the internet tablet already supports, BUT nokia should really create some conduits for other popular IM platforms like ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN so people can use the built-in chat client to chat and video/voice chat! (and exchange files).

I've got nothing against Pidgin. It's a great app! But... I would liketo see some alternatives!

Tags: Nokia, chat, N800, applications, beta, IM

Now I know I recommend a lot of television on Tuesdays (I haven't panned a lot, I don't think), but this series is a MUST see! This is an Australian show on ABC1 (australian channel). It follows the work lives of a government think tank, complete with advisory committee and pollsters!

The PM (prime minister) goes to these guys to get feedback on new initiatives, or to get ideas to get the ball rolling on projects, or to deflect attention when shit hits the fan. Some of the themes are uniquely Australian, such as the cost of maintenance of The Lodge, but other topics are current in American culture, such as taxes, and low recruitment in the armed forces.

This series is just laugh-out-loud-funny - it's what happens when Dilbert meets The Office in the Political Realm in Australia.

My favorite line in the series is You can't call a Crisis a Crisis...unless you have a solution or it's someone else's fault.

You can watch the episodes for free on ABC1's website - here

Tags: humor, australian, politics

OK, Life on Mars, the US version, started recently and MUCH to my disappointment the role of Gene Hunt is NOT played by Colm Meany but by Harvey Keitel. Now I had read the previews and I did not care much about the series because I felt that it could not do justice to the original BBC production. In addition, originally there wasn't an Annie in the story (a main character in the BBC version) - this was fixed.

I was willing to give the series a try because Meany was going to be Hunt but now that they've gotten rid of him and replaced him with Keitel - thanks but no thanks! There's a lot of other TV to be had and I don't plan on wasting my time with the US version of Life on Mars. Since I never say never...I may give it a try next summer on hulu (or the network's site) when there is generally nothing much on TV.

Bad decision ABC, bad decision!

Tags: television, WTF, BBC, ABC

I've been thinking of the OS space lately and I thought of the poorly supported AmigaOS. Yes my friends, AmigaOS still exists, and it is still mismanaged! So what does the Amiga holding company need to do? It's quite simple - get off the PowerPC platform and get on with Intel already!!!

Now at home I've got a Mac Mini. On this Mac Mini I've got MacOS 10.5. I also have Parallels and Windows Vista installed (I know, I am crazy). On this Mini I can also play around with BeOS, and various linuxes and BSDs. Thinking of the OS space, there are three serious contenders for our desktops.

1. Apple with MacOS X
2. Microsoft with Windows Vista (and soonish Windows 7)
3. Linux (with Ubuntu being my personal preference)

Amiga still develops an OS. Amiga still puts effort and innovation into the OS. The OS doesn't run on hardware commonly available to consumers and businesses. Thus the OS will not be used. Here's some food for thought.

1. Port AmigaOS 4 to Intel.

2. Create a 'classic' layer that uses common graphics cards and the powerful multicore processesors we've got in our machines these days to dot JIT translation of special chip code and motorola 68k code to have older apps run on new machines.

3. Create a VMware/Parallels easy install for people on Windows and Macs to easily try out your product and to easily have it as a second environment!

4. Make it consumer friendly, not geek friendly (but keep us geeks in mind)

Amiga needs to finally make a comeback!

Tags: amiga, technology, intel, macintosh

Another gameboy game that I got during my summer of Gameboy purchases in the early 90s was Robocop for the Gameboy. I had recently seen the movie and wanted a piece of the Robocop pie. I thought the game would be as engaging at the movie - wrong!

In the game you play Robocop (d'uh!) going around shooting criminals. Your regular gun gives you unlimited ammunition, while special guns that you pick up throughout the game give you limited rounds of higher powered weapons.

The plot, as far as I remember, was not bad, but the game play was. Robocop was stiff, kinda like Simon Belmont in Castlevania, and about the only way to clear the stages was to memorize where the enemies come out, and proceed through stages with guns blazing, rapid fire style.

I don't think I ever finished the game. I think I got bored of losing after a certain spot. Even for nostalgia purposes I don't think I would spend that much time with this game.

Tags: video, video games, games, gameboy, robocop, entertainment, sucks

OK, so I wrote about why Palm needs Android. Now I am going to help them with their overall strategy while I'm at it.

I listened to an episode of the 1src podcast a few months back, and it was mentioned that Palms strategy is to have three tiers of devices:

1. Entry level - running PalmOS Classic. These devices will be cheap smartphones to get people into the smartphone word from the feature-phone world. These devices would be devices like the Palm Centro. They may even retain the Centro naming convention for these devices.

2. Mid Level - running PalmOS II (Nova) and focused toward a more advanced user group, but not quite up to the enterprise level.

3. Enterprise Level - Running Windows Mobile. These devices will be like the Palm Pro and aimed at businesses and super-duper-uber users.

Now is a previous post I had mentioned how Palm should go for android and halt development of PalmOS II. In addition to that, Palm should also completely eliminate PalmOS Classic and get in bed with Symbian.

If Palm continues to court Windows Mobile, they've got the business user. If they go with Android, as I said in a previous post, they gain from the many apps that will be developed, and they can tailor the android experience with their palm know how.

Where does Symbian fit in?

Well, symbian is the largest mobile OS in the world. It has a lot of apps already available! Palm is not a known brand in Europe, but if they run Symbian they can make a bigger splash in the market over there. Palm is a well known name in North America, so running symbian benefits them because they will be building upon the great library of apps already available for symbian AND moving forward.

PalmOS classic at the moment is stagnant and has no future. Why invest in an entry level line that runs an obsolete OS?

Palm should look into making symbian phones both for entry and mid level clients.

Tags: palm, symbian, technology, opinion

I was reading this article recently about why Palm needs Android. I know, my google reader starred items list is a little backed up, so the article is not very fresh - but I do believe that it is quite relevant.

I do agree that Palm needs Android, but for somewhat different reasons than the article points out. The article does have some interesting points to make - like the OS market is crowded and making one that you control more doesn't guarantee you success.

My reasons for Palm ditching Palm OS II (Nova) are simple:

First, Palm has a piss poor record on OS development in recent years.
Palm was supposed to release PalmOS 6 - Cobalt... but they messed that up and the OS was essentially dead on arrival. No manufacturers, not even palm themselves used it!

Then palm decides to buy out a chinese linux manufacturer and merge their Cobalt OS with the linux they purchased to make a new OS. What happened? PalmSource was bought off by a Japanese company. The company then completed the OS (or is nearly completing it) and Palm is not using this OS, THEIR OWN brain child on new devices. Instead they opt to build something from scratch and call it Palm OS II.

Now Palm OS II has been delayed, and I think it will be delayed again, and again. I think it will be DOA just like Cobalt was.


Second, Palm needs to cut off the deadwood called Palm OS 5.x (aka palm OS classic). Palm needs to pull an Apple here. They've been supporting their classic OS for a long time, grafting on more and more functionality. Good for them! It really shows ingenuity on their part. Time has come though to make the symbolic gesture of putting PalmOS classic to rest.

By going with Android not only do they have the benefit of an open source OS, they also have the benefit of getting all those nifty apps that are coming down the road on Android. This is also an incentive for all those PalmOS developers to upgrade their apps from PalmOS classic to Android - there is going to be a bigger market!

What about all those legacy apps you ask? Well, they can be put out to pasture as well! It's time for them to retire. Palm has said that they will maintain the centro line for entry level consumers, so developers can still make apps for PalmOS classic if they want. People in the mid-tiers using Android Palm products can maybe use an Access provided Palm emulator to run most of the apps that they paid for in the past while they transition to newer apps.


Palm needs to stop wasting money on PalmOS II (Nova) and start developing some android apps to make their phones stand out!

Tags: opinion, palm, android, linux, symbiosis

OK, in case you missed it, while the writer's strike was going on, Joss Whedon experimented with the whole webisode thing and created a three Act series called Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog. You can watch each act separately or watch the whole thing end to end.

The story follows Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) who is just a regular Joe during the day, and his occupation is to be an amateur Villain called Dr. Horrible who tries to gain membership into a prestigious villain group. His arch nemesis is The Hammer (Nathan Fillion) who keeps thwarting Horrible's attempts, and who is quite full of himself. I found Horrible to be quite human, despite his villain demeanor.

In the story there is of course a love interest for Dr. Horrible, but he is so socially awkward that he has trouble asking her out each time he sees her at the Laundromat.

The series is available for free on hulu, and for pay on iTunes.

It's only 45 minutes, so you should have plenty of time to sit down and enjoy it!

Tags: webisode, horrible, itunes, hulu, musical

Not much to say about this one.

It's an appstore rejection timeline using a cool web 2.0 tool

I just found it interesting (both the tool and the timeline)

Tags: apple, iPhone, appstore, applications, NDA, rejection

I saw this graphic the other day when I was browsing Danger's website.


Now I would love to try a sidekick out, but there is no way to synchronize my PIM data on my mac with the Sidekick OS - mark/space used to provide a Missing Sync solution but they discontinued it when the Sidekick 3 came out.


So browsing Danger's website, I was a bit happy to see the graphic depicted here because obviously that is a Mac! I decided to read the details of synchronizing and what do you know - No Mac solution! Still the old windows-only sync!


Graphics designers need to pay better attention to what they use!

Tags: technology, Graphics, design, sidekick, incogruity, macintosh, windows, sync

Burai Fighter was one of those games that I bought when I was visiting relatives in the US while living in Greece. I will admit to this: I bought the game because of advertising! I saw advertising posters and ads in magazines about this game and I bought it (or rather asked someone to get it for me as a gift).

In this game you essentially play a man on a jet-pack going off to fight the aliens of the evil burai empire. I will give credit where credit is due: the game was actually pretty good, and the graphics were good enough for the time in which the game was developed, but the game was extremely extremely frustrating! I cannot describe how frustrating this game was ~ maybe even more than the terminator puzzle levels

One lazy summer afternoon, a year or so after I had purchased the game, I sunk a lot of hours into the game and I got to the last stage. I did not know this at the time. I fought the final boss and won. I saw the ending credits - wow! I had finally done it!

I never played the game again!

Tags: video, video games, games, gameboy, entertainment, buraifighter

I've been experimenting with many web 2.0 services lately. Each one of them requires its own username and password. Admittedly using something like Hellotxt allows one to setup a service and then blog/update from hellotxt, so updating isn't that problematic - even though you aren't fully utilizing the service you signed up for because services like hellotxt and ping.fm allow you to use the lowest common denominator of services (i.e. text)

I've been thinking that I have way to many logins for all these services. I really wish that I could use openID for all these services - it would make life so much simpler!

Tags: social, netwoking, networks, web2, login, openID

I've been lurking on LinkedIn, myspace and facebook on the weekends, and I can see some of my contacts' contacts have TONS of connections. OK, some people are more liberal with who they call a 'friend' than I, but I've noticed this thing called LION on linkedin.

LION stands for LinkedIn Open Networker. In essence it's the social networks promiscuous user who will connect with anyone for any purpose. Now let me come out and say this so no one misunderstands me:

Connections matter for squat if there is no trust or lack of trust!

The reason why social networks work is because I know someone, and I trust them enough or know them enough to connect with them. These people might be coworkers, employees, friends, family and classmates. If I need something, I can be assured that if I look in my social network I can find someone with the credentials to help me out (such as a good plumber). I will know that that person is trusted, so I won't have any issues hiring this plumber.

If I see that I am connected to someone through a LION or similar idiocy (like toplinked.com), then I simply won't seek out that person's services unless I am one level away from them and I can ask a trusted source over the phone or face to face of that service provider's abilities.

Why? Because most of these open networkers connect to people in order to boost their connected count. The number of people you are connected to does not imply that there is trust in that connection. LIONs are like the ENRON or the credit crunch of the social world - sooner or later they will collapse.

The best way to network is to join a group or a community of practice online, or join a local organization like your local toastmaster's chapter. This is quality networking.

Tags: networks, netwoking, social, trust

I was a bit skeptical when I first started watching this series. I thought the humor would be rather sophomoric - not that I am looking for high brow humor, but anyway - I gave it a chance.

The series revolves around a group of friends (and later on a rather immature parent figure) who are running a bar in philadelphia and get into rather bizarre situations.

The humor is quite...unexpected, at least for me. It reminds me of the british office in an "oh-my-god! I can believe he said/did that!" type of way.

The fourth season should start airing on FX this year, and all three seasons are available for free on Hulu.

If politically incorrect humor is your thing - go watch a few episodes of this series, you'll drop down laughing.

Check it out!

Tags: humor, sophomoric, FX, sitcom

What is "the office" had a Japanese Remake?

Have a look at the SNL spoof on Hulu

I found it pretty funny

Tags: humor, hulu, SNL, office, spoof

Well, SonyEricsson wasn't that enthusiastic about UIQ recently when it announced that UIQ failed to meet expectations. Recently motorola - the other major backer of UIQ, called it a day for UIQ when it announced that it was stopping development on UIQ and MOTOMAGX (their linux based OS).


I have to say that I still love my P800 and I won't be giving it up any time soon. It's going to my personal gadget museum (along with my Newton). I also have to say that that it wasn't UIQ that failed to meet expectations, but rather SonyEricsson and Motorola. They never put their full weight behind the platform to support it so as a consequence:

1. Not enough phones running UIQ (compared to Nokia's S60)

2. Some phones were problematic and said companies never fixed them creating a problem in the brand image and customer loyalty

3. No binary compatibility with other Symbian platforms! This seems like a no brainer, especially since S60 apps were plentiful!

4. The phones that came our were feature deprived: one glaring example is the complete lack of quadband GSM and US 3G bands! by omitting such a large market SE kept the UIQ out of the hands of willing users.

Oh well, UIQ - another footnote in tech history. Long live Symbian!

Tags: UIQ, symbian, s60, sony, ericsson, Phones, telephony

This is a screenshot from my google reader.
It just goes to show that our priorities are a bit messed up....

Tags: weird, technology, google, zeitgeist