MobHappy

Some bits and pieces from the first day: – Had a chat with the head of Rocket Mobile, a company that mainly does BREW development of both applications that get embedded in OEM devices, but also a number of consumer apps. The company’s a good example of how a platform-centric viewpoint can be beneficial: its [...]

I feel it’s pretty safe to say that Amp’d is going to be an incredibly disruptive (or destructive, depending on where you stand) force on the US mobile scene. Their general strategy seems to be “Okay, so everything every incumbent carrier does? Yeah, we’re doing the opposite of that.” So it’s EV-DO phones (from Kyocera [...]

I had a meeting this morning with some people from the Open Mobile Alliance, who were, um, kind enough to add the chair of their DRM working group to the meeting (without my knowledge, although I didn’t really mind), to address my fairly strong feelings about it. OMA’s in an interesting position on this and [...]