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From An Open Letter to Steve Jobs Concerning the HTC Lawsuits.
I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to leapfrog me: they’ll always be playing catch-up.
wilshipley.com

Filed under: Android Apple Google

Terrible Mistake

Your humble narrator, back in October when Nokia filed a patent suit against Apple:

If you can’t beat ’em, sue ’em.

I feel this suit against HTC is a terrible mistake.

John Gruber, daringfireball.net

Filed under: Android Apple Google

Travelling with Android

In response to Christian Leumund's Wie mich das iPhone auf Reisen begleitet (in German).

I have to admit: I'm not travelling as much as Christian, and certainly my trip schedule is less interesting than his (Berlin - Bonn - Berlin, Berlin - Bonn - Berlin...), but I, too, have a faithful travel assistant in my pocket. In my case, it's not an iPhone anymore, but rather an Android-powered device. Here's how I use it:

I keep my schedules, work-related and private ones, in Google's GCal service which syncseffortlessly with the built-in apps of my HTC Hero. I keep my shopping list - together with everything else I need to remember - in Evernote's app for Android. Whenever possible, I opt for email-based boarding passes (Lufthansa have those, Air Berlin doesn't); otherwise I keep a backup of the boarding pass printout in Evernote. Public Transportation info comes through fahrplanDE, an Android app made by swiss company elui; weather reports are built into HTC's Sense GUI - other Android phones will have to rely on any of the many weather widgets available. After touchdown, navigation tasks can be done with Android's built-in Google Maps app, although I'm very much looking forward to Google's navigation app coming to Europe. All the other activities Christian tackles with further iPhone apps don't fit into my schedule - and TeuxDeux, Christian's favourite GTD app, is not available for both the iPhone and Android, so I've settled with GTasks, Googles own, admittedly simple solution (available as an Android app!).

So far, I don't miss my iPhone. Sorry, Steve!

Filed under: Android business technology

Wrong Country, Apparently

Update: Of course it is possible to order the Nexus One from a different country: All you need is a proxy in the U.S. (I used a VPN account I have with a U.S.-based provider to enter the order process) and a delivery address in either the U.S., UK or Hong Kong.

I still cancelled my order before completion because my contract with T-Mobile Germany is up for renewal in a couple of months, and I might get the Nexus One for less than 500 bucks. For the time being the slower and less fancy HTC Hero will do.

Filed under: Android Google net life

Dear Makers of Droid Scan,

While I was still thinking whether I actually need your image manipulation app on my Android-powered cell phone, you sent me a message that an update was available. So I started the update process.

At the end of which the app was deleted from my phone, replaced by an app to notify me when a new version of Droid Scan will be available. Which apparently, and contrary to the update notice that this little story began with, is not the case.

But there is an upside to this: now I know I don't need your app, makers of Droid Scan.

via Pixelpipe
Filed under: Android
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