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Android and Nokia and Windows and Microsoft

Full disclosure: I run Kaspersky Internet Security on my home LAN. [Maybe I should scrub it for hidden backdoor used by KGB-types or something. Joking.]

So I was like, LOL, when I read about what Eugene Kaspersky had to say about Android. I mean, he said that if HP/Palm, MS, RIM and Apple don’t change their ways in the future, eventually Android will dominate 80% of market.

I think this is what a fair number of us are thinking when we see Android’s adaptation approach. At MWC this year the word “ecosystem” is thrown around a bit, and I think if we were to compare ecosystems, not OS, I think we would be left with just 3 real players: WP7, iOS and Android. Once we realize only one out of the three are free for manufacturers to make (if you think the Java suit in Android is a problem, wait until Microsoft jacks up the cost of their walled garden), it does smell like the 1980s all over again, with those IBM PCs running DOS…

Now this is just one opinion, but I feel in Europe where people care a lot more about this sort of “freeness” that Android offers, the opinion Kaspersky offered is a popular one. It is no surprise one of the more renowned Russian hacker-types would say exactly this. Europe is also Nokia’s biggest stronghold, at least if we talk about their high-end devices (to cop Elop’s 3-tier division in his leaked memo).

I’m sure we can make an OS-war analogy to what happened in the late 80s. Will Microsoft (now devoid of Gates) strike gold again? This is quite an exciting era for mobile computing because things could very well play out exactly how it did with PC computing…

All this is to say, yeah, I would have sold my Nokia stock too if I had any. 25%!

Hosting Woes

My old cheap shared hosting died in a fire, they never got back to me after the first email, so now I’ve moved to a better host. I suppose that is just how it is if you’re a small-fry customer paying $30/yr. But hey, a customer is a customer and I’ve been for like 5 years with made2own. If I’m motivated I will follow up and try to get some data recovered, but it looks unlikely.

This site is now live via Hawk Host. I did a bit of research (webhosting talk forums) and they check out. Service is superior as well. But this is not even 24 hours into the annual contract I paid on. They have a 50% off first year coupon, so I am paying $20 for this year.

Soon, omonomono blog proper will try to get its butt restored. That may be a weekend project, we’ll see.

In the process of moving my domain names, I went back to the MFB guild stuff and realized that the guild is only an orbital satellite with another newly merged guild over at Silvermoon. The co-op is still alive and well but it is still a co-op… A trip down memory lane remembering the old guildies I spent those late weekend hours with. It’s only then that you truly realize that the game has no more power over you, when you think fondly of the memories and of the people you hung out with, but there is barely any desire to return to it.