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may you live in interesting times
coultonp | 08 November, 2007 11:41
On what seemed like another in an endless stream of plane rides last week (my carbon footprint is rubbish) I had cause to consider on what changes I have encountered in the mobile industry over the summer and it brought to mind the supposed Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times”.
The trip this time was to attend two workshops in Helsinki one on NFC the other on Web Run Time (WRT) Widgets. As some of you are aware I have a long standing interest in NFC/RFID through projects such as Mobspray and Pac-Lan but I came away from the workshop very excited by new features embodied in the 6131 particularly the secure element and I would urge those with the opportunity to take Rons advice and attend the workshop in Amsterdam. The WRT workshop was also fascinating (thanks to Finn and the guys formaking it such an interesting day) as I have recently been playing with the Widsets Widgets platform which for me is tremendously exciting as it embodies many of the elements we crave from Web 2.0 type applications such as perpetual beta and addressing the long tail. However, I was equally impressed by WRT in the ease of development and the fact it definitely address a new audience of potential mobile developers from the web community. It’s interesting that these two platforms are often lumped together in people’s minds but I would urge people to investigate both as they offer very different but complimentary opportunities.At the Nokia Games Summit I was trialling a Locomash experiment for the attendees and also demonstrated our accelerometer games Tilt Racer and Tunnel Run. Having spent much of the event bemoaning the fact that only the 5500 offered the facility, what happens? last week up pops fact that the N95 had them all the time. Who says we can’t be surprised anymore?.
There are of course countless other fascinating developments such as ‘Open’ becoming the new black of the mobile Industry, the appearance of the Iphone, reduction in pc ownership in Japan, Nokia’s acquisition of Navteq, etc, etc. This brings me back to my original thought (yes there was one) that those of us in this industry are bombarded by change but rather than seeing this as as a curse let us revel in the fact we do indeed live in very interesting times.
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Indeed interesting times
Nokia Ron | 08/11/2007, 16:51