Week In Review 2011W06
The big news this week was Microsoft’s 7th largest individual shareholder making Nokia Microsoft’s phone hardware provider. He set the stage with the burning platform email and then the N9 is dead rumors started flying. I wrote about what Nokia should do the night before the big announcement that made it clear they’re canning Symbian. That must have been a very difficult keynote at MWC.
Speaking of MWC, there’s plenty of phones for people with freakish large hands. And a 10.1 inch Samsung Tab which is not very unlike the Xoom. Intel, feeling pretty lonely, showed up with a MeeGo tablet. I saw a “My Tablet” in that UI so it still needs work.
HP unveiled their iPad clone which is going to run webOS 3.0. This might actually be an interesting device, except for the poor dpi. The likeliness to iOS apps is uncanny! Meanwhile Apple plans to redo the notification system which was bad a few years ago and pathetic now.
It was bound to happen. MPEG LA is getting ready to charge for VP8. Do you have your Google indemnification contract handy.
