Apps stores everywhere

It's a landslide of apps store that are new to the market a consumer has so much to choose from. To much. The app stores all have visions of overtaking the Apple Apps store. With 25,000 app on the iStore the competition has a lot of catching up to do. One advantage that several phones have over the iPhone is a much more open architecture. That means the apps developer can build more powerful apps for other smart phones. Many developers are moving away from the iPhone to build these applications. Apple will have to rethink their policies if they want to keep their lead. To date, Apple has continued to update some of their policies in attempt to retain developers.

To catch Apple the other stores will have to invest in marketing. Apple runs full page ads in the WSJ several times a week. They now have television commercial touting their apps. Google on the other had does not really believe in advertising. A bit strange for a company that makes the majority of their profits from advertising. Sometimes you have to put your money where your mouth is.

Jeff Brandt
CTO
www.motionPHR.com

Android ready for Primetime?

I recently read the title headline in a published article; "Android not ready for primetime". At first I was put back; I love the phone and the software. But like most of Google's products such as gmail, earth... they are in a semi perminant status of "Beta". They do this so users do not complain to much while they work our their business model. But a beta Operating System that has customer purchasing phones and developer producing apps is a bit of a problem. When apps don't work, most of the time the user blames the developer. Though this is not alway true, Microsoft is blamed constantly about problem that they had no part in. That is, badly designed or untested apps that cause MS machines to behave poorly.

The Android OS is a great system with a lot of potental if handled correctly. My hopes are high that once companies such as Motorola get involved the OS will come out of beta and become production quality. If not it will fall by the wayside like so many "science projects".

MyMedBox for Android released

My company Communication Software Inc. released a new application for the Google Android Phone named "MyMedBox" This application provides patients with a secure medication record on their phone. This is the first release of the product and their will be more to come. Personal Health Records are believed by many to be a vehicle to saving money in overall health cost.

The application can be downloaded for free at Google Market.

G1 is here the Paradigm shift has started

I just picked up my G1 for T-mobile in downtown Portland yesterday. It is one cool phone, not as cool as the iphone but the real value of the G1 is in an apartments in Kansas, the back streets of China, sitting by the pool in India. That is, the programmers around the world that are working on the next killer application that will run on Android software Stack. Think about it, it is the software that gives the computer it's value. The more software the more value. Now add the multiples of all of the manufactures and carriers that can use the Android software in their phones for very little development cost. It will have the same effect on the phone world as Linux had on the computer world. This will also assist the carrier and end users to reduce the cost of cell phones by having access to a phone that will run on many cell systems and the same software that runs on multiple phone.

Open markets will always win over closed propriety systems. Google made the investment to open the cell market. Other phones such as iPhone and Blackberry will still have their place in the market. We will have to wait to see who prevails. www.motionPHR.com