Uncompiled Thoughts

Now I’m not saying that the iPhone doesn’t have its fair share of crappy apps, but this is just hilarious. Here are the top 10 most viewed Android apps for May 17th according to AndroLib.com:

A brief look at their descriptions tells us:

An exciting year – A list of 365 things you need to do before [...]

In his response to the Section 3.3.1 changes, Steve Jobs makes a very valid point that has been largely glossed over by the Apple vs Adobe narrative that is playing out on the web right now:

We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the [...]

A few interesting things have happened this past week that should remind us all of the perils of building your business on top of someone else’s platform:

Fred Wilson’s recent post describing the future of the Twitter platform has left developers wondering if Twitter is going to integrate certain core features (URL shorteners, photo sharing services) [...]

Over the past year, we’ve seen location based apps explode dramatically in popularity. And with the growing ubiquity of smartphones with built in GPS units, that trend doesn’t look like it will stop anytime soon. According to recent reports, location based services could reach $12.7 billion in revenues by 2014.
This obviously presents a big opportunity, [...]

Note: this is just my personal list of apps I would actually be willing to pay for if someone built them. Some of these ideas may already exist in some form on the iPhone, but I think they would work much better with the iPad’s large touchscreen.

A recipe manager
I do a lot of cooking, and [...]

Living in Los Angeles, Yelp has been a great tool for me. I have used it constantly over the past few years to discover new restaurants and find great recommendations. But rumors of Yelp’s somewhat shady business practices have started surfacing over the past year.
These rumors have now turned into a class action lawsuit, filed [...]

My previous post on the Flash controversy brought up some interesting comments that I thought warranted further discussion. A number of bloggers have shared their opinions as well. Incidentally, this conversation has been going on for months on the web, the iPad announcement just seems to have reignited it.
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch posted:
We are now [...]

Having done several years of Flash development and having worked with many Flash developers, the recent controversy between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPad is very amusing to me. First, there are a few arguments that I want to address directly:
But Flash is the only way to deploy a consistent cross platform solution!
Shenanigans. [...]

So I’ve decided to start blogging. Yes, yes, I know I am several years late on this one.
Apparently some people think I have thoughts worth sharing. We’ll see if they’re right (probably not).