Apple Defeated Samsung. Yay!

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt". If Duke Nukem was reporting from the Apple vs Samsung trial, that is how he would describe more than billion dollars in damages. While many people are unhappy about verdict, they shouldn't be. Apple played fair and square by American law and won. Now let's forget about the case and let's start to think how future will look like. I will try to present different aspects of Android ecosystem and how verdict impacts them.

Android Pride

Apple managed to ban Galaxy Nexus sales in US. It is not the newest device (it is 7 months old), so why Galaxy Nexus and why now?

How Do You Feel After Google I/O?

After seeing Google I/O keynotes, how do you feel as Google user? There is a reason why I ask this question. A lot of negative rumors could be heard recently: Samsung is investing in their own mobile OS; Kindle stole Android's market, which was anyway small because of iPad; Android platform is fragmented; nobody uses Google+; and gremlins were found in most products. And then I/O happened.

Megasomething Overkill

If you want to sell something to men, just give them continuously improving numbers in specifications. We want more power, less distortion, higher frequencies and longer runtime, even if we don't really need them. They are easy to compare and it's easy to prove that we have something better than the other male.

Every now and then, something becomes such overkill that nobody cares about it anymore. Take camera resolution. My first camera had two megapixels. With such resolution, you could only do standard size photos without too much cropping. With every next generation of cameras, resolution went up. Somewhere around eight megapixels people stop caring. It was good enough for all practical purposes.

Western Customers, Chinese Workers

Mike Daisy did a great deal of damage not just to "This American Life" radio show, but also to Chinese workers by fabricating the facts about work conditions at Foxconn. Now it would be harder to convince people about poor working conditions there, although other journalists observed the same.

So does Apple deserve bashing or not?

Smartphone Patent Wars as Wildlife Documentary

Ants are hard-working, dogs are loyal, foxes are cunning. We tend to match patterns of animal behavior with human ones and label them so - we anthropomorphize them. However, animals are neither good nor bad; they just are. Each species found ecological niche for its own survival. We also tend to anthropomorphize everything else, companies included.

So companies are greedy or inventive or "not evil" or patent trolls. In reality, they just try to survive. Main purpose of the company is to make money. People often forget that and expect companies to be noble, fair, or consistent. That's not purpose of the company; don't be disappointed if they behave differently.

Dawning of iPad 3

Apple will today announce their new device so I don't really see a point in writing about anything else.

I'm not so interested in hardware; I wonder what will Apple add to new version of iOS. There were couple of features missing that are must for serious tablet OS.

It is really convenient to have tablet at home. Instead of going to another room with PC or holding hot and bulky laptop in my lap, I can enjoy surfing in a more civilized way. We can all share it as needed. We could share it if had some notion of users, but it doesn't.