We’re back up and running again, at least on this blog. I asked my hoster to upgrade my account with SSH, which seems to entail a server-move. During that move, the databases get migrated as well and during the migration they managed to lose all database contents. Of course, this left the blog in tatters. We’re back up and running, due to a restore of the old database-contents. Now, let’s see if I can get www.stampfini.org to run again…
Edit: and that is running again as well.
Found a great read on why Android or iPhone is the wrong question.
While Apple may have opened the proverbial Walled Garden, it is Google, with its aggressive Android offering, that aims to obliterate it. Make no mistake about it; Apple was the pioneer with the amazing revolutionary product. Also, with no iPhone, there is no Android. This is not to say that Android copied iPhone, but rather the impetus to adopt and trust Google’s Android offering was driven by a market dynamic that resulted directly from the iPhone’s success.
via Android or iPhone? Wrong Question « abovethecrowd.com.
Indeed, the iPhone represents only a very small portion of the global phone market. But it is the other portion of that same phone market that is the target for Google/Android. Google does not necessarily want to compete with the iPhone head-to-head (although they can!), but is more looking towards converting people that use a heavy feature-phone these days but may make the switch to a smartphone if a compelling enough offer comes along.
