July’s Wired tells the story of Android.
“As soon as programmers started playing with the emulator, they saw how big Google’s ambitions were. The company was trying to make programming for a cell phone analogous to programming for a PC or the Web. Coders were told that their applications would have constant access to the Net, [...]
Into Mobile describes a mobile future – some familiar stuff here.
“Our phone book will manage our single identity and our single list of contacts. When the switch to IP v6 is complete everyone on this planet will have their own namespace and everyone’s mobile phone will act as a server. Everything you do, whether it [...]
”...It’s time that we recognised that for the majority of the world’s population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon [...]
“As the power and flexibility of the mobile phone platform grows, developers have the opportunity to create new, creative applications which take advantage of the mobile phone’s unique features. Applications can combine GPS, voice, and the use of in-built cameras to add a new dimension to gaming and social networking software, among others.”
“Writer and consultant [...]
Published by Gabriel White.