Compare ecosystems, not Android vs iOS

Recently Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), and I had an exchange on Google+ regarding how to think about mobile OS dominance. Our brief chat got me thinking about the merits of such a debate in today’s world. Unlike the years of PC-centric Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Unix platform thinking, the reality is that mobile operating systems don’t matter all that much.

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Tablets are Enterprise or "Four Reasons Why This Guy Doesn't Need a Tablet"

2011 marks my 20th year as a mobile computing person. I’ve used — not just reviewed or fiddled with — virtually every flavor of mobile device made for the panoply of operating environments over the last two decades. I’ve used a dizzying array of laptops, notebooks, Tablet PCs, PDAs, handhelds, mobile phones, smartphones and e-book readers on a daily basis. My office, if you will, has been mobile for 20 years, and about the only device I haven’t used is a Blackberry (it just isn’t me). So the other morning before I jumped onto a flight, I was shocked to read that CIO’s mobility expert, Al Sacco, seems to not understand the difference between a Tablet PC and a mobile tablet and as the piece unfolded, it all went downhill fast. I should have stopped reading.

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Newspapers Need to Be Of the Web, Not Just On the Web

via GigaOM

The secret to online success for newspapers doesn’t depend on technology or even specific kinds of content, says Emily Bell, … Read More >>

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No One Is Buying Nintendo's Cautionary Tale About Mobile and Social

via All Things Digital

Leaders in the gaming industry reacted negatively to controversial comments made by Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata at the … Read More >>

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World mobile data traffic to explode by factor of 26 by 2015

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Anyone who thinks that the Internet revolution is in anything but its early phase had … Read More >>

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