Update (20100524): the owner of the video has removed it. That’s the “beauty” of UGC.

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Steve Jobs said reportedly that Flash is buggy and that it won’t make it to the iPad and iPhone. The same story was used for Java, a technology that Steve Jobs described as not worth going onto the phone. However, I call B.S. on Apple’s arguments. Apple has decided not to ship Flash and Java not because of the lack of intrinsic value and quality, but because if allowed these technologies would result in the vertical disintegration of the Apple platform.…

I wrote about this header a little while ago in my onesoup blog, but since I have received various emails from folks asking me whether I’d continue or not with onesoup. Basically, they all make the point that there is a latent customer base on old phones with the native client.

So the question really becomes: even if IMPS is a lagging technology, even if operators are unfriendly, even if nobody knows how to monetize IM, … the penetration of these clients is huge.…

one of the key strategic questions that developers looking into creating successful mobile applications need to answer is the choice of platform. we see an increasing consumer demand for desktop-like rich applications on the phone, but somehow the promise of such applications remains undelivered. developers can chose between the smartphone centric OSes, Windows CE and Symbian, or the desktop centric OSes, Linux and OS X. so which one should we chose to build those future desktop-like applications?

smartphone centric OSes are designed to address the limitations of the constrained mobile environment, while at the same time delivering a rich user experience.…

Today’s TechnNews article about Nokia’s smart2go brings up an interesting business model competing with GPS navigation devices such as Tom-Tom. Nokia’s German-based Gate5 smart2go is a free map service based on Symbian EPOC for Series 60, although probably we will see across other Nokia phones. smart2go offers free maps, which can be downloaded from a PC (I guess for planned usual routes) or over the air and bluetooth (for unplanned routes — oops, I am lost!) One can store map files to the phone’s MMC (obviously to its storage limit).…