Mobile

“Netbooks” are a new category of laptops that mark a fragmentation of the laptop market. The reason that netbooks mark a change from laptops is a change in the direction of what a laptop is supposed to do; the focus is now truly on portability. Not just a PC that you can conveniently carry through to a different room, but one thats light enough to carry around from day to day- either because you need to lug one around wherever you go, or because you don’t want to be worrying about whether it’s something you really need on a particular day.

The size of a netbook is pretty much the limit of how small a laptop can be and still have a useable keyboard (although the screen size is the standard measurement, it’s the keyboard size that has the biggest practical implications), and the weight is simply as light as it can be.

I came across this blog post (via Daring Fireball) about the iPhone App store, and how the ecosystem of developers undercutting each others' prices isn't something that can last. There are some really good points about the problem with the way the iPhone Apps store is organised.

The idea of my first serious attempt at blogging (and to some degree, the focus of this one that's taken it's place) was building a website about the web.

More recently, I've started a new blog that will run along the same lines, but alongside this one, focussing purely on the next generation of mobile phones; a mobile blog about mobile.