Essentially :-

• It is silly to equate the PC market with the handset market
• Err… So “Unix” won did it? Now I thought Linux wasn’t Unix….
• So windows was successful because it provided a platform for other people to make money..and Apple has provided a way to help developers make money, and ensures consumers don’t install rubbish on their phones and that’s bad?
• WinMo isn’t comparable to Android – but Java is and that hardly created an exciting apps ecosystem
• Oh and Symbian is open sourced because its backers know it’s dead

It is silly to equate the PC market with the handset market

They are not the same – the handset is an appliance, the PC is not. Handsets are more readily likened to games consoles. So it’s immediately pointless to draw conclusions from the history of the PC market and apply them to the handset market.

Err… So “Unix” won did it? Now I thought Linux wasn’t Unix….

When Eric says:

And isn’t it entertaining, boys and girls, how thoroughly Unix won? Both OS X and Android are Unix underneath.

My second most immediate response was “Err…. actually the Android is based on Linux, which really is not Unix – but then you should know that? So are we all now going to say Linux is Unix ? Unix FAILED – it broke into different factions (initially dozens) and then we saw a slow consolidation then along came Linux which effectively wiped the board of all but a couple of Unix variants (And IMHO – AIX and HP-UX are the only two Unixes that have any legs on them). It’s important not to rewrite history by deluding ourselves that Linux = Unix and that that’s all good. Because it misses the fantastically important point that the success of Linux is that it does some very low level stuff, really well and there’s no point in differentiating your product on the basis of how pointer references are hashed in some obscure part of the kernel.

The success of Linux lies in people agreeing that having choice at the kernel level isn’t all that interesting.

[My first most immediate response was - "Don't patronise me you....."]

So windows was successful because it provided a platform for other people to make money..and Apple has provided a way to help developers make money, and ensures consumers don’t install rubbish on their phones and that’s bad?

Here’s the thing – Windows was successful because it provided a means for other people to make money – true. But SO HAS APPLE!!! The AppStore would not have the massive number of apps if Apple hadn’t provided a very clear mechanism through which people could publish and monetize their software.

WinMo isn’t comparable to Android – but Java ME is and that hardly created an exciting apps ecosystem

It’s not really fair to compare WinMo and Android, first let’s look at WinMo vs J2ME. Which was more successful? Well the numbers would indicate Java… it’s running on a hell of a lot more phones than WinMo, let’s face it. But again, – Has J2ME created a vibrant apps marketplace? No – because device vendors didn’t want to support an open market place – 1) because they wanted to control everything 2) they had genuine concerns about stability 3) App portability across phones is a nightmare

Android is much more analogous to J2ME than it is WinMO – WinMO (arrogantly) tries to mandate device function while J2ME tries (valiantly) to provide device flexibility – at the expense of app portablity. Android is trying to do a very similar thing to J2ME, and will suffer the same challenges as a result.

Oh and Symbian is open sourced because its backers know it’s dead

The competitive dynamic between Linux/Android and OS X can be understood in the same way. OS X is playing a control game and Android a ubiquity one. We can expect the outcome to be the same: when the bazaar meets the walled garden, the walls will eventually come down, crushing the life out of the garden.

This is why Symbian is now open-source in spite of having no inheritance from Unix-land; its backers have figured out that a control strategy collects short-term gains over a ubiquity strategy but simply cannot compete in the longer term against open-source Android and open-source

Aww puhlease …. Symbian open sourced because it’s backers have figured out that OSS is the way to go??? Nah… Symbian was dying so they took a wild punt at OSS’ing it (As Sun did with Solaris) and it’s not helped Symbian (or Solaris for that matter).

The key weakness in Eric’s post (and position) lies in the assumption that the Andoid vs iPhone battle can be understood in the same way as the PC vs Mac battle  – and it simply can’t be.

Oh I should add that I am an iPhone fanboy, and proud to be so

So, here’s the short version:-

• iPhone vs Android isn’t coke vs pepsi, it’s coke vs virgin cola
• It’s disingenuous to say that the iPhone is for “Play” and the Android for “Work”
• Today the iPhone strikes a much better balance between the desires of consumers vs developers
• Consumers don’t care about “open” they care about “now”
• Multiple Android distros is BAD for Android, not good
• Flexibility and choice are attractive to developers but often a nightmare for consumers
• Multiple formats and screen sizes represent too much choice
• I’m not sold on “Open Google” in the way that many commentators are
• Its just not clear which will win, but right now iPhone is still well ahead

iPhone vs Android isn’t coke vs pepsi, it’s coke vs virgin cola

The first point I disagree with is that the comparison, for basic users, between the iPhone and Android is like Coke vs Pepsi. While I think there’s a good chance that Android will close the gap (I don’t think it’s certain as I’ll explain) right now the comparison is Coke vs Virgin Cola.

As Peter acknowledges, the iPhone app market place is dramatically larger and deeper. Although I’m sure that the Android marketplaces will continue to develop rapidly.

The Coke vs Cola analogy is interesting because we know that the essential ingredients (or features) of Coke and Cola are pretty much the same, Coke beat Virgin Cola on a host of levels that extend way beyond the simple features of the beverage but two of the reasons are particularly relevant -  Coke had brand (perhaps most important) and Coke had distribution. Android phones don’t have anything like the brand clarity of the Apple iPhone; Google is a fantastic brand, but that’s not the brand the device manufacturers are pushing, they’re selling their own brand – because they’re rightly worried about giving up their brand identity. The second issue, distribution, is also important. iTunes and the AppStore have a massive established base that right now is unrivallable.

It’s disingenuous to say that the iPhone is for “Play” and the Android for “Work”

I’m not convinced by the “style difference” that Peter says exists when it comes to apps for iPhone vs Android. To begin with, it’s a little disingenuous to imply that iPhone developers play on our baser instincts (by offering us porn) while Android developers feed our souls (by unlocking the power of the phone’s “inner” unix machine). There are many more business apps available on the iPhone (in addition to the games, and silliness) and indeed, my iPhone satisfies my inner geek immensly by giving me a VNC client, so that if my fingers were really tiny I could write this blog on my Ubuntu laptop via my iPhone – how cool would that be!!

Peter makes a sterling attempt to convince the reader that the ability to write your own ‘nix shell scripts is a boon for non-techies but I simply don’t buy the idea that “rough but workable tools” are for “all comers of the enterprise”.

Today the iPhone strikes a much better balance between the desires of consumers vs developers

Many developers hate the closed garden that Apple’s Appstore represents, and Apple seems not to mind giving them new reasons to dislike the restrictions that are imposed. But it’s a question of balance. Apple is trying to balance the provision of a great place for people to find nifty apps for their device, and the provision of a great place for developers to publish and monetize apps they sell. This isn’t an easy balance to strike, and Apple’s policy would seem to be to err on the side of the consumer rather than the developer.

So I find it difficult to beat Apple up for protecting the integrity of its appstore. It is possible, of course, to spin this by saying “Apple is cynically protecting it’s marketplace” but that would be a little bit like saying “Coke is cynically protecting it’s logo” or “The lion cynically killed the gazelle”. Of course Apple has to protect the integrity of the AppStore, and I’ve no doubt that there are plenty of parents across the globe who are delighted to see Apple moving against the smutty apps. I think Apple will need to adjust its stance over time, but right now there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of new apps in the queue for the app store.

Consumers don’t care about “open” they care about “now”

I’m not convinced that “open” ecosystems always produce more innovation than closed ones, but I certainly believe they’re more likely to. So I do believe that the relative openness of the Android platform offers greater potential for future innovation than Apple’s closed alternative, but the problem is that consumers don’t care. They wont pick an Android over an iPhone because it is based on a better moral framework, or because it offers a better path to choice and innovation, they’ll pick Android over an iPhone based on their current desires rather than their future needs.

Multiple Android distros is BAD for Android, not good

I also disagree with Peter when he says “it’s a java world”, and that the emergence of new android distros is a good thing. I agree that some folks are indeed “relentless tinkerers” – but the idea that it would ever be a good idea for an enterprise to put a nice custom interface on top of Android hardware is an absurd one for the vast, vast majority of enterprises. Yes, if you’re Fedex and you want the perfect UI for the 30,000 devices you give to your drivers, but for most organisations the  “tinkering” with the UI layer of an operating system should be punishable by death.

Flexibility and choice are attractive to developers but often a nightmare for consumers

In the early days of Linux the ability to control or modify absolutely anything was seen as a key selling point. But then the reality that only a tiny, tiny, minority of people actually do modify their o/s (Less than 1% of Linux users ever compile the kernel. I’ve compiled it 100’s of times – and have even successfully compiled it twice..).

My development experience does, however, echo Peter’s – TTHW (Time to Hello World) is a really significant factor in establishing developer affection for a platform or technology, and the openness of the Android platform does mean that TTHW is shorter than for the iPhone. If the world were exclusively populated by developers then the iPhone would be dead and we’d all be using Droids, although as one of my developers pointed out, if the world were exclusively populated by developers we wouldn’t need phones at all – We’d all be communicating via the WOW forums.

Multiple formats and screen sizes represent too much choice

Apple has the good fortune to know precisely what screen format and size it needs to address, but the Android O/S doesn’t – so the Android has to provide support to different device formats and capabilities. Again, I have to agree that this leads to greater choice, but I worry that it inevitably leads to too much of it. Writing Java Apps for phones is made so horrid and unpleasant precisely because of the differences between devices – so on one hand you have the school that tries to implement support for this, while on the other you have the (Microsoft) school that effectively mandates device characteristics – neither of which results in much success. As Peter points out in his blog there are already Android apps that will run on some devices and not others and we all know how awful Win ME phones are…

Apple, of course, controls both the o/s and device.

I’m not sold on “Open Google” in the way that many commentators are

Again, Peter points out some of the issues here in his blog, but takes a slightly more generous view of Google’s motives and likely plans. Google has shown (as per the Google Maps example in Peter’s blog) that it’s not as keen on “open” as some of its cheerleaders would have you believe.

Ultimately, it’s the ecosystem that will keep Google open, and (I believe) it’s the ecosystem that will force Apple to be more open over time.

Its just not clear which will win, but right now iPhone is still well ahead

If I really did know who would win, I wouldn’t be blogging, I’d be sipping a marguerita on my private island.

But my wild stab is this.

• The Android platform needs to offer less choice, not more if it is to win.
• Apple will need to offer more choice not less if it is to extend its lead.
• There is an opportunity for Adobe to offer an easy to develop, app store enabled, Android client platform for bizapps (Air for mobile)
• If there were any justice in the world we’ll be writing most of our rich internet apps using HTML 5 in the near future (To paraphrase Captain Sensible – you gotta have a dream.

• Employee morale is at a deeply low point across Europe
• This is a far cry from Bill Thomas’s vision of Fun, Impact and Operational Excellence
• It is not to0 late but HP has got to work hard to re-engage with European Employees
• My advice – close the chapter, re-engage, retain some of the old EDS values while blending them with HP’s

Employee morale is at a deeply low point across Europe

HP Enterprise Services is having a gnarly time of it at the moment. The loss of the DWP desktop deal with Fujitsu (which also has one or two HR challenges to deal with) named as preferred bidder and tipped as most likely to replace HP could be spun as just a set-back, but combined with the level of employee unhappiness that going on strike implies it’s clear that HP’s most senior executives need to step in.

Morale within the former EDS organisation astonishingly low across Europe (most notably in the UK and Germany), with employees expressing a mixture of despair and anger at the scale of the redundancies in Europe and serious pressure on salaries.

This is a far cry from Bill Thomas’s vision of Fun, Impact and Operational Excellence
At HP’s annual analyst event in 2009, Bill Thomas (then the GM of Europe) characterised his vision using the four words “Fun, Impact and Operational Excellence”. It’s fair to say that EDS was never a “cosy” place to work, but the company managed to attract and retain some really formidable talent  in deal-making, service delivery and hard-core technology expertise.

One of the things that Bill Thomas, and his boss Ron Rittenmeyer, were absolutely focussed on was operational excellence. Bill was able to express his enthusiasm for operational excellence in more moderate terms than Ron, who was almost violent in his insistence on it – But it was always clear that both shared the same passion and both were very willing to reward employees that delivered.

Clients picked up on this. In 2008 I spent an evening in the company of a civil service mandarin who had nothing but good things to say about his EDS account director and the EDS relationship as a whole. He wasn’t interested in how “cool” EDS was, or how “exciting” their solutions were, he was happy that he had a partner that cared about his success.

It’s not the same today, despite the fact that HP Enterprise Services actually has more capabilities post-merger, and still cares every bit as much about client outcomes.

It is not too late but HP has got to work hard to re-engage with European Employees
HP’s services arm now has a European workforce which feels that is has been badly treated in terms of pay, conditions and empowerment.  If HP doesn’t take proactive steps to re-engage the company will find it increasingly difficult to replace the talent that it will inevitably lose.

Without some corrective action HP’s business will suffer.

My advice – close the chapter, re-connect, retain some of the old EDS values while blending them with HP’s
HP needs to move to close this chapter in its employee-relations history. First, the outstanding grievances need to be resolved. Next the company should cancel the pay freeze and provide a transparent process through which employees can see how their efforts will be rewarded. The company also needs to establish and fund a retention program.

Finally, in order to move on HP needs to acknowledge those elements of the EDS values that won the company business – The Texan focus on “outcomes” (which helped to keep clients) and the suited conservatism (which helped to win larger clients who don’t want “funky” preferring “formal”) and then blend in HP’s  reputation for  innovation (something that EDS did a lot of but was never quite able to leverage).

HP Services has a level of capabiliy that is only matched by IBM in terms of its, depth, geographical coverage and basic pulling power. The key in services, unlike perhaps the hardware business, is to focus on profits as well as cost….

If you’re in a hurry;

• Overall the session ticked pretty much all of the boxes
• Guest speaker William Shatner did a nice job of talking about collaboration
• IBM’s approach to partners gets better and better
• IBM understands the value and importance of “Open” – even if there is still plenty to do
• But There wasn’t enough talk about how consumable lotus services are by other apps
• Project Vulcan offers a view into the future of the Lotus offering

Overall the session ticked pretty much all of the boxes

The session did a great job of covering all of the necessary bases. The session opened with the (now de rigeur) kick-ass drum and violin combo,  followed by a really superb pitch by Bob Picciano. I was especially pleased to see the extent to which Bob emphasised the role of partners and “openness”. Bob also announced his move to Director of Sales for Software Group (a role where his experience, and understanding of partners will be really valuable). Bob is succeeded by Alistair Rennie, who I first met (and was impressed by) over a decade ago in his days at Websphere.

The session also delivered a slew of key announcements, the most notable of these (for me) were;

• Lotus Connections 3.0 – Extended mobile access and Social Analytics
• Lotus Live – Now has 18 million users after only 18months.
• Lotus Symphony 3.0 due in Q2 – based on the OpenOffice 3.x codebase, contains improvements to the user experience, functionality and stability of Symphony as well as support for Visual Basic Macros in xls files.
• Lotus Traveller – Now available on a bunch of phones (including iPhone)

Guest speaker William Shatner did a nice job of talking about collaboration

Bob’s opening was followed by William Shatner, who gave a good pitch on Collaboration – nice to have an entertaining guest who can tie his piece into the theme of collaboration.

IBM’s approach to partners gets better and better

As it happens, I think that 2010 is going to be a hugely important year for partners. I’m writing a piece on the topic that (essentially) talks about – Redefining “we”. Traditionally when vendors say “We” they mean themselves… in the future “we” is going to have to mean them plus their partners.

You’d expect the GM of Lotus to be smart enough to acknowledge partners – especially when standing on a stage in front of 5,200 of them. But this was more than just lip service. The importance of partnership came up over a dozen times in the session, here are a couple of quotes:

“You should never doubt the role that YOU the lotus community have played…”
“Our strongest foundation is the technology that YOU have, the solutions YOU’ve built..”

IBM understands the value and importance of “Open” – even if there is still plenty to do

I was sitting next to Bob Sutor during the session, and couldn’t help nudging him and asking him if he felt a little bit of pride at the extent to which his decade of work on evangelising “openness” seems to be paying off.

IBM is really serious about openness – from open standards to ease of integration. IBM has made it very easy for third parties to create components and applications that can be plugged into the lotus foundation. This is good stuff for partners and customers.

Not enough talk about how consumable lotus services are by other apps

My only caveat where it comes to the open story is that much of the emphasis is on integration with Lotus – with lotus at the core. I’d like to see more discussion about how components from Lotus can be consumed by other apps – I’d like to use Quickr as the repository for an application we’re building for example.

Project Vulcan offers a view into the future of the Lotus offering

The final segment introduced us to project Vulcan pitched as the next generation of Lotus Notes combining email, calendaring, profiles, to do lists and social analytics. It will also include filtering and intelligence to increase the relevance of content as well as using social analytics to suggest content or actions.

The goal is to make Vulcan an open platform, supported by public services and APIs. Several bloggers have pointed out the apparent similarity with Google Wave, and there do indeed appear to be common ideas, which isn’t a bad thing by any means.

• RIM isn’t in immediate trouble but the writing is on the wall
• RIM will pay  the price for sitting on its laurels
• RIM’s only USP is the global Data deals it has in place
• Droid phones that are tied to Mobile Networks wont roam the way the Blackberry does but Google and Apple may be able to do some big deals..
• If you’re about to renew a blackberry deal or you’re considering signing up for RIM, then do the data roaming maths

RIM isn’t in immediate trouble, but the writing is on the wall

RIM isn’t going to fail in a spectacular fashion, the company’s installed base means that it will lose enterprise mobile market share relatively slowly.  But it will lose enterprise market share as users see the choices that are offered by open standards based alternatives and reject the proprietary,  environment that RIM has to offer.

RIM emerged when cellular data networks were in their infancy and the company provided a way  for enterprises to securely and reliably extend email to mobile devices. Frankly, it didn’t matter that the phones were ugly – that wasn’t the point RIM wasn’t selling sexy phones – it was selling a way to get email safely onto its clunky phones and access to a global data roaming agreement that meant that businesses weren’t bankrupted by data roaming charges.

RIM will pay the price for sitting on its laurels

RIM will fail because it took its privileged position for granted, and I think it’s now too late for the company to innovate it’s way out of the proprietary hole it’s sitting in

RIM’s only USP is the global Data deals it has in place

Secure, reliable email is available today on mobile devices. As an example, IBM announced support for encrypted email on the iPhone at Lotusphere today. RIM’s last USP lies in data roaming, and here the problem is that a lot has changed – Data networks are more available, and data costs are coming down.

<bad joke>
Little Boy – “Daddy, why do Buffalo always look so sad?”
Dad – “It’s the roaming charges, son, the roaming charges…”
</bad joke>

A client recently evaluated the iPhone vs RIM, and the only reason the iPhone lost out was the prohibitive cost of European data roaming with the iPhone. In 18 months time, the cost model is likely to have changed significantly.

Droid phones that are tied to Mobile Networks wont roam the way the Blackberry does but Google and Apple may be able to do some big deals..

The issue of roaming data means that I think it’s unlikely Android phones that are tied to one mobile network will be able to deliver data roaming at the right price – It’ll take players like Google or Apple to do those mega deals. Since  Apple began opening up the iPhone to competing mobile operators, the company may well have a head start.

If you’re about to renew a blackberry deal or you’re considering signing up for RIM, then do the data roaming maths

If you’re approaching a potential jumping off point, or you’re currently looking at mobile email, then the key lies in doing the data roaming maths – If most of your users are going to be using their devices within a single mobile network, then RIM may struggle to make an economic case even today….

Merseyside Police – I now have a crime mumber! – 20091204-0033

Sage Pay – A fairly standard email, but also – A tweet to my twitter account, and a personal comment on my blog – Really good start by Sage

123-reg – A personalised email, which – while they can’t do much, did involve the guys at 123-reg doing a little DNS digging for me – so thanks to them for that

Have also dropped an email to MoneyBox Live the BBC R4 program.

And it seems they’re STILL at it!

I received a comment today from someone who’d found my original blog entry (alas, after having problems)… so that was it… I’ve emailed the following organisations;

- 123-reg (the registrars of the domain)

- sage pay (the provider of the company’s payment service)

-Merseyside Police

- The liverpool echo

- http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

- As well as the company that provides the e-commerce platform http://www.purplesheep.co.uk/

I’ll be posting the responses of the different organisations, as they come in to me!

In the meantime – this evening’s google search came up with :-

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A security expert has discovered an issue with  flash and security and has announced that people should disable flash in their browsers (although he’s quite happy to embed flv in his own blog):

• This “pseudo-crisis” is not actually about flash – it’s about how sites manage user-uploaded content
• This security expert may as well say “Don’t use the interweb, for there be dragons”
• It is theoretically possible to circumvent the flash origin policy by uploading a malicious flash app to a site
• The solution isn’t to disable Flash, it is to promote good web-app design
• If your site allows user generated content and file uploading you MUST design it with content-exploits in mind
• Adobe has tons of resources focussed on security
• As does PHP..

This “pseudo-crisis” is not actually about flash – it’s about how sites manage user-uploaded content
This “crisis” is not about a “Flash Exploit” at all – it’s about a user-uploaded-content exploit, that people have been aware of for ages.To blame Adobe for this is absurd. The key to this is the way in which web apps that allow users to upload content manage and validate uploaded files.

This security expert may as well say “Don’t use the interweb, for there be dragons”
This “risk” is on a par with the risk you take every day when you use the internet – phishing attacks are getting smarter all the time, and yes, we need to be vigilant, but really – if you’re that worried about this particular issue, then cancel your broad-band, because the internet is not for you.

It is theoretically possible to upload a malicious flash app to a site
The basis of this exploit is that flash has a security model that uses the notion of “same origin” to ensure that a flash app can only access content from the domain it originated from (there is a way to permit non-domiciled flash alls  to access content on your domain if you want to allow them to – google crossdomain.xml if you’re interested, but that requires you to actively allow it).

So at this point, we’re all good – the ONLY way a nasty flash developer can mess with my site’s data is to get her flash app onto my site. Now, how might I do that?

• Break into site owner’s offices and copy ftp password from post-it note stuck on admin’s monitor
• Use the site’s own “image upload” service to upload my nefarious swf

The key here is – it is not the flash that’s at fault here – it’s the fact hat the site allows you to spoof it into allowing you to upload dodgy content. This is the classic “injection” exploit that we’ve been worrying about for a long long time.

The solution isn’t to disable Flash, it is to promote good web-app design
The solution is not to disable flash – the solution is to use your common sense whether you’re a web-user or web-app developer. As a user bear in mind that the sandboxed nature of browser embedded flash severely limits what it can do on your local machine. In theory, a flash app could spoof you into providing sensitive information, and then send that data to another server – But the use cases are pretty limited.

Essentially – you need to use your common sense.

Now, as an app developer – you need to make a personal commitment to ensuring that users of your site aren’t exposed to this type of exploit

If your site allows user generated content and file uploading you MUST design it with content-exploits in mind
If  you have a file upload form on any part of your site, then you have a huge responsibility to ensure that you manage those uploads with extreme care. You should :

• Validate all uploaded content before you store it – checking for filetype
• When you serve uploaded content, you need to ensure that you create the right mime-headers for that content don’t make the browser guess

This is crucial because if one of your users falls prey to this exploit it is YOUR fault and NOT Adobe’s.

Adobe has tons of resources focussed on security
There is no excuse – Adobe provides a raft of information about security – You can start by going here CLICK ME to go to Adobe’s Security Resources for flash

As does PHP
Just go this google search Click here to search google

Check out detailed information here

Now, I freely admit that I’m an iPhone fan – it’s a rocking phone, wrapped in a business model that is rocking too (for now at least).

But, Canalys seems a little “down” on Droid -

Rather than eating into RIM and Apple’s integrated platform sales, Android appears largely to have cannibalized the use of other free Linux minority platforms and taken the lunch away from Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.

(Pete Cunningham – Canalys)

I think that Pete may well have a point right now – but I expect droid-based phones to put up an increasingly strong showing as time passes. It wont be as quick as supporters of Android like but the ecosystem is still in its very early days.

My wild stab in the dark (and I mean wild stab in the dark) for the next 12 months…

• The number of droid-based phones will grow in number to create the real potential for a world-beathing ecosystem – Provided that droid phone makers don’t rush off in too many directions
• If Apple can negotiate data roaming deals with the leading global mo-telcos then RIM is going to be in big big danger
• Apple needs to be ready to adapt the closed-garden a) for the enterprise and b) for non-commercial apps
• WinMo and Symbian are going to see their share of the market halve.

Too much Cloud flavoured Koolaid is bad for you