I don't get this logic that because every social network before fb died so will fb. We have to agree that fb understood the social networking landscape a lot more than all other previous players. My guess is fb will not rule the web but it is here to stay for a long long time
Seems Dell are working on a series of android devices and some of them will be tablets. If anything is going to beat the ipad I can only think about a dell tablet right now
Does he need to launch his second startup through yc? yc's most valued service to a startup is right connections. Having been successful once he should already have plenty of them
I think Maemo 6 would be announced much sooner than that. It is very like that it would be announced in the maemo summit scheduled on october this year in Amsterdam.
Yes Maemo 5 is mainly gtk based. But nokia announced they will switch to Qt for Maemo Harmattan. It is only logical after they acquired Trolltech in early 2008.
IMHO 500 euros is reasonable considering that this is almost a computer in your pocket with real control for the user. It is my guess that an iphone 3GS would cost more than this without a contract and the device looks good as the iphone.
Rather than on open vs closed, native apps vs web based apps app war win will be decided solely on the number of users a given mobile platform has. For that some android manufacturer would have to stand up to design an iphone killer.
People are just overreacting to a simple case of localization effort.
A multinational corporation would never be racist because when the main motivation is profit and you are serving across all demographics the last thing you can afford to be is been racist.