{"id":3753,"date":"2011-10-04T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2014-03-12T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T22:39:08","slug":"the-smartphone-wars-how-are-the-mighty-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"The Smartphone Wars: How are the mighty fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/business\/Hewlett+Packard+replaces\/5447359\/story.html\">replaces the hapless Leo Apotheker<\/a> in a manner not very well calculated to reassure anyone that HP has a bright future.  Granted, Apotheker&#8217;s performance &#8211; typified by the now-it&#8217;s-dead-oh-maybe-not fumbling around the TouchPad &#8211; was dismal.  But the new CEO&#8217;s first move was to reassure everyone that Apotheker&#8217;s cunning plan to turn HP into a low-rent clone of SAP is still on track.  <\/p>\n<p>How are the mighty fallen. HP was a great company once.  Then they spun out the instruments division to focus on printers and lost their culture of excellence along with it.  Now they&#8217;re thrashing.  Sad.<\/p>\n<p>In other news of the stupid, there&#8217;s evidence that Nokia (remember Nokia?) is developing a <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/2011\/09\/29\/nokias-meltemi-project-tipped-to-bring-new-low-end-linux-os-to-the-next-billion\/\">Linux-based OS for its low-end phones<\/a>.  Yes, that&#8217;s right, they dropped Meego\/Maemo &#8212; which actually worked &#8212; only to start an entirely new OS development project.<\/p>\n<p>On a more cheerful note, Samsung is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2011\/09\/21\/att-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-kernel-source-code-released\/\">pushing kernel source code out the door.<\/a>  This after hiring the Cyanogen lead.  Good stuff; they actually seem to get this open source thing.<\/p>\n<p>From the excellent StackOverflow site, a report with statistics indicating that Android passed iOS in developer mindshare on that site at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stackoverflow.com\/2011\/09\/android-vs-ios\/\">beginning of 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Amazon finally moved; the <a href=\"http:\/\/geeks.thedailywh.at\/2011\/09\/28\/amazon-kindle-announcements-of-the-day\/\">Kindle Fire<\/a> is out.  G+ points us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mollywood\/status\/119064687076843521\">funniest tweet<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p>The business press had already begun to notice that Apple is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/218294\/20110922\/top-ios-5-features-already-existent-android-devices-iphone-5-ipad-ipad-2-iphone-4-iphone-3-gs-2005-g.htm\">chasing Android&#8217;s tallights<\/a>. Then Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2011\/oct\/04\/iphone-apple-launch\">announced the iPhone 4S<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a big yawn. iCloud?  Me-too voice recognition features?  Really, Apple? Is this the best you can do?  Gawker has a <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5846600\">hilarious post<\/a> on how overblown the media hype was, but even that fails to convey what a boring, derivative-seeming product the 4S is.  How are the mighty fallen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP replaces the hapless Leo Apotheker in a manner not very well calculated to reassure anyone that HP has a bright future. Granted, Apotheker&#8217;s performance &#8211; typified by the now-it&#8217;s-dead-oh-maybe-not fumbling around the TouchPad &#8211; was dismal. But the new CEO&#8217;s first move was to reassure everyone that Apotheker&#8217;s cunning plan to turn HP into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3753\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Smartphone Wars: How are the mighty fallen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smartphone-wars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}