CAP Tech News: Google Announces Android Apps Market (Store)

September 2, 2008
Can Google beat Apple in the Wireless Game?

Can Google beat Apple in the Wireless Game?

This was a story that was out on Techcrunch before the long holiday season but nonetheless it’s something that ties in all the recent tech news that’s taking up much virtual ink lately.

Also Microsoft seems to be entering the online app store business as well.

So is this all just too much for all us consumers to ponder? One of the biggest factors for me would be just how interchanagable all this geeky stuff is? What if the google app store has a kick ass app that just isn’t offered in the itunes app store? Most likely the app developer will create several versions that will be compatible to every major wireless device. The problem comes in when you are ready to upgrade, change services, service plans, etc. Will we have to repurchase all our favorite apps? Will it be a big factor in our committments to our phone, carrier, plans, etc?

Come to think of it, still at it’s infancy, it’s already getting to be a huge pain in the ass, no?

I gotta make sense of all this later in the month. There’s a grand slam tournament still going on that’s far more interesting to this tennis geek.

To be continued…

cap

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CAP Tech News: New Image of T-Mobile’s Dream with Google’s Android

August 30, 2008

"Dream"-ing with Android

First finding the story in Engadget it certainly looks like all the involved companies are working fast to get this one out and running into the marketplace.

I’m sure all you tech geeks (myself included) have read or heard more than a few recent stories of Apple’s continuous stumbles in the media from their iphone ills to their mobile me troubles to even accidentally publishing Steve Jobs’ obituary! So it makes not only great sense to launch something new so close to the holiday season but also an added timing bonus for competing with the wildly popular Mac when they seem to not be the “Apple” in everyone’s eye anymore.

More to come in the next few days I’m sure.

cap

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CAP Tech News: Could The Android Slow Down The IPhone Momentum?

August 26, 2008
Will The Android Be The Worthy IPhone Nemesis?

Will The Android Be The Worthy IPhone Nemesis?

The image and story first appeared at The Android Guys.

Adding to my recent tech woes (should I or should I not buy an iphone) comes the news about a new line of ipods launching in early September and now this post about the Android finally making it’s fourth quarter 2008 debut.

The pros:

1) T-Mobile. I love T-mobile’s service. It’s reasonably priced, the service has rarely let me down, customer service has always been dependable and it’s convenient for me.

2) Hopefully they’ll fix a lot of the “issues” that Mac has been receiving regarding their 2nd generation 3G iphone. The slow 3G on the iphone, the plethora of dropped calls, the low life of the battery, the screw ups with the launch of Apple’s MobileMe, etc. Apple stumbled hard quite a few times these last few months and the door is wide open for someone else to bring them back down to reality. Perhaps Google and T-Mobile can do it. Yes, this is just pure hopefulness on my part but everyone needs to dream right?

3) The Android could be the N’Sync to the iphone’s Backstreet Boys. Damn, that sounds way more fey than I ever thought it would. But you get the point.

4) Be a rebel. These iphone carrying bragging little shits who can’t stop checking shit on their iphones are some of the most annoying little shits in the world. “Hold on a sec bro, let me check that on my phone…”, “Hey, my iphone is also a lightsaber…”, “Hey, my iphone just gave me a happy ending…”.

The Cons:

1) I’m sorta OCD about certain things. If I buy a season of DVD’s for a show, I need to buy the future seasons. If I have a Sony TV, I need to get a Sony DVD player and a Sony game system. If I have a burrito for lunch, I need those damn chips and salsa. So since I have a Mac Powerbook Pro, I feel this need to keep things consistent. This is actually a bigger deal for me than I would like to admit.

2) Those design folks over at Mac do know how to make our gizmos look so sleek and cool! I’m not the biggest fan of the android design above. It looks like a sidekick f’d an iphone and this is what they produced.

3) I’m just giving up being just another iphone sheep to being just another google sheep.

So now, what then?

Basically, I’m going to wait until the end of the year to make my final decision.

Kind of a fizzle of an ending there.

(beat; crickets)

Shit, I’ve bored myself out just writing this post.

More to come.

cap

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Tech News: Some Big Changes Coming to the IPods

August 23, 2008

If you’re like me, you might be in one form of iphone limbo or other. I am just starting year two of my two year mobile contract with T-Mobile, I’m very happy with my Dragon-Engraved Motorola Razr (minus the dying battery issue after the 12 month period) and it’s services. Because most of my day I’m in front of a fully wired computer and my current mobile contract sitch I don’t find myself yet at the point where I need to have a fully mobile 3G phone ala the mac iphone (besides, there are plenty of people out there who can’t stop showing off their lame ass lightsaber app on their iphone to me… fey).

Then recently all this news regarding google’s 3G enabled android began to build up steam once again and it made me 1) glad I didn’t commit to the iphone yet and 2) gave me more excuses to embrace the “wait and see” approach.

Now comes this week’s addition to my mental hell about all this which are these rumors from Digg’s Kevin Rose sharing his knowledge and information on the new line of ipods that are on the verge of making a huge splash in the next month.

I have an old ass ipod. During the early 2000’s it seemed like Apple was literally unveiling a bigger, cooler, smaller version of the ipod every other day. After playing the “wait and see” game for several months, the big 40 gig photo ipod with the click wheel came out to the market and I quickly purchased one. At the time I didn’t think that it could get any better than this. I have a HUGE CD collection and this ipod would still have all the room to carry all my music plus have like 10 gigs left for photos. The only next stage would probably be video but that won’t be for at least a year or two right? Screw it. I’m getting the ipod photo.

I think it was like the next month (at least that’s what it felt like to me at the time) Apple unveiled the ipod video. I went in too early again.

Now with the potential of a newly revamped ipod touch on the horizon, I may have the opportunity to get the best of all worlds. All the benefits of the iphone without the monthly fees, hassles, BS (the fact that AT&T is the only licensed US carrier still bugs me). Plus Apple is expected to lower the price on top of it? Sounds like a no brainer to me.

With my luck though I’m sure the day after I buy the new ipod touch, Apple will be like: “yo, check this shit out. new apple ipod teleportation! with the help of google earth and maps, you can now use apple’s gps technology and teleport yourself anywhere in the world! $299″.

cap

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iPhone 3G is finally official! (non-cap)

June 9, 2008

3G iPhone

What better way to get Federer’s abysmal French Open out of our systems than geek out to Apple’s New 3G iPhone.

Are you gonna get one?

cheaper, global, and better.

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