There are a couple or wars that we will be part in the next couple of months, probably one in middle east, but this post is not about those kind of wars, it’s about technology wars.
The Cell Phone War: We will have a huge fight between Google’s Android and Mac’s Iphone, Today Google gave away 4,000 Android completely unblocked for development to developers in the Google I/O so they can build community and jump start software creation the as fast as possible. Iphone has a great advantage in this market, but Google knows how to come from behind. Definitely I think Google is going to get a huge advantage in the developers market over Mac’s policy to charge for a license to be a developer, which is the reason I would get an Android. Is it enough against Mac genius marketing in the everyday normal people? It’s going to be a heavy war.
The Browser War: Chrome and Firefox are way behind to Explorer according to this post in mashable and the information came valid source at Mozilla, but things are going to start changing. New version of Chrome is out and one of the talks in Google I/O is about Chrome Extensions that will give a bust to Chrome, Firefox just got Firefox Jetpack to program more extensions easier. It is going to be a cool war, I use Chrome for blogging and surfing and Firefox for develop, but anything can change in the next month. I don’t see a clear winner, but I see a clear looser.
The Computer War: Netbooks + Cloud Computing vs. PCs, with project Nebula in by NASA Cloud Computing made a lot of buzz and with Netbooks with G3 internet included and bigger monitors, I definitely see myself using a Net book and hosting almost all my data online, maybe even using Cloud Computing for processing data. It is going to be a change in the way we do thing, especially in the market of people that use computers for irrelevant things.
The RIA war: Adobe releasing Flash Catalyst and all the good tools of Flex, Microsoft has Silverlight and Ajax in combination with some other framework we will see a lot of new developments done, with better quality and much more value to the user, the way things are developed will change and all the old structures will fall sooner or later, so who will would claim the new land? My bet would be in the one that gennerates a stronger comunity first, because of that I would think AJAX could do it, but betting against Adobe and Microsoft?
The big advantage in the middle of these wars is for the end user, who is able to win a lot from the great innovations that are developed in each product. In the middle, for the developers it is great to have too many options to choose to create great new products. At the end, developer are soldiers, the end user will choose the winner of each war.
This is the great advantage of the knowledge society, a lot to win with little casualties.
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Gran post. Creo que el iPhone/iPod Touch ya han creado un mercado difícil de batir, aunque los googles contraataquen con el open source, el punto que mas le duele a Apple ahora. En mi opinión Google debería comprar Spotify para poder entrar al mercado de la música, donde no tiene salvo los vídeos pirata en Youtube. Viste el cliente de Spotify para el Android? Se veía perfecto