People keep talking about “mobile”, how it’s going to be very important (i.e. “we have mobile first policy” …) but recently it really struck me: most talking about mobile revolution have abolutely no idea. They just don’t get it. Which is a bit sad, actually, especially if you think that big media companies are still struggling to make sense of what to do with classic, web-based Internet. Mobile is a revolution can only be understood by mobile users.

A friend of mine did something I was too lazy to do for a long time - a YouTube version of our old demos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWe1SmHWxE4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RbkCS2xtuU Seems like it was ages ago. I have great memories of these times, and have to admit I miss coding just for the pure fun of it. Commercial software development might be fun (especially when making games) but it’s really hard to compare.

There has been a lot of talk lately about how tablets are eating into the classic PC market, that people don’t need PCs any more, and how doomed they are. It’s true that we are witnessing a decline of the PC platform, and that this trend will only intensify. At the same time I don’t believe that right now it has much to do with rapid growth of tablet market. There are many other resons it is bad to be a PC vendor right now.

The recent releases from Apple (iPad 2 and earlier new laptops) get me thinking a bit about evolution of computing devices and how we actually use them. The past was very simple: loud and powerful desktops, underpowered laptops with short battery life, and feature phones that couldn’t really do much. The technology progress changed things a lot. As desktops and laptops countinued to improve, smartphones were introduced to the world. It’s hard to tell when that happened, but at some point they could do quite a bit.