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Re: In Defense of the Logitech Revue Remote

Kiran — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:58:30 -0000

You need to put this in bold "My wife loves this remote too." Passing the wife test is huge!

Re: On the Oracle Social Network

Kiran — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:11:16 -0000

I would add that heart of Oracle Social Network is Oracle OnTrack that we demoed last open world. OnTrack's original interface was nothing related to oratweet or Connect but the current interface is getting closer to Connect though the core essence of conversations is different spin compared to others. Much more closer to g+ circles.

Re: Gone Native?

Kiran — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:43:34 -0000

"And yet many times the stack is determined for you" -ain't that the truth

Re: Gone Native?

Kiran — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:45:31 -0000

The fact is you cannot generically determine the stack, you need to understand the users, the requirements and chose. Part of the problem is until you code in both you cannot decide.

Re: Gone Native?

Kiran — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:45:31 -0000

This tug of war between Native and HTML Apps is going to continue for a little while before it settles down. Even Google struggles with it right. You might also be following Joe Hewitt moves between Native iOS and HTML/Javascript. Part of the problem is with Native both iOS and Android are innovating at an amazing pace, they will keep adding value to the Native APIs. HTML5 catching up is going to get harder and harder. Internally we are continually debating this same issue, we are trying very hard to stick with jqm etc but there are certain things that are so damn easy to do in iOS natively.

Re: Apps Don’t Matter

Kiran — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:48:08 -0000

I remember earlier in the year or last year you guys did a survey on what apps we use regularly etc. I responded with about 6 or 7 apps. I try all the cool apps that come out but that does not really matter as they dont get used afterwards. Yup, apps don't matter. However the ecosystem matters, with iCloud it will be even harder to move away from the i.

Re: Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

Kiran — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:57:14 -0000

For folks who are still trying to figure out where to fit in tablets in their workflow, price will be very important. For folks who have figured out that for my travel, for my biz meetings, whatever this is going to be primary, price (a couple of hundred bucks diff) will probably not matter that much, for them flash and other features might be important.

However, one of things I am waiting to see is how the used iPad 1s at 300 - 350$ impact the price. Unlike phones, tablets are not that much abused. So if I want to buy an iPad for entertainment, for my kids to play, I would not buy iPad2, I would not buy a new Android tablet, I would buy a used iPad 1 this year.

Re: Scripting News: Steve Jobs as Captain Queeg

Kiran — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:13:31 -0000

i agree, apple needs to move on.

Re: Charge Me Up: No Batteries Are Good Enough

Kiran — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:20:04 -0000

well looks like the iPhone4 does not have the battery issues that previous iPhones and Evo have:
http://bit.ly/cya0tM

Re: Android Needs More Marketing, Like Right Now

Kiran — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:53:25 -0000

From day one Apple took he ownership of the marketing of iPhone. With Android it's been the carrier mostly with some google homepage love and that poses issues. There is no consistent message, there is no focus to show the features of Android, there is no central message to show the range of devices available and choices of carriers available. Google should own this and drive it, otherwise masses are not going to get it.

Re: Why iPhone Will Win

Kiran — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:13:53 -0000

My point abt RIMM is that no one is innovating to compete with RIMM, it's a slow erosion of their market share. The way I look at mobile ads is similar to web ads, whether it's firefox, safari or chrome google makes money. Whether its iPhone or Android google will make money from ads.

Re: Why iPhone Will Win

Kiran — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:12:16 -0000

I dont want either of them to win in long term. Short term sure. A month ago people talked about Android fragmentation and why iPhone is great. After Android 2.2 people talk about why Andoid will win and we will see next month whats the deal. The key is all these are short term wins, which is fine. If Android actually wins big in long term, that means iPhone loses big. When you lose big, you become Palm, Windows Mobile and to some extent Blackberry and if iPhone becomes like that I can easily see innovation slowing down in Android. Just like it did in Windows. Google makes no money out of Android, however they win big if Apple loses. But if Apple loses big Google has no incentive to do better.

Re: Why Android Will Win

Kiran — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:19:16 -0000

The way I see is consumers are winning big. After years of slow moving features in phones, we are seeing amazing progress. Nexus One, HTC Incredible and now EVO 4g all within 6 months. this got to put pressure on Apple to increase their pace.

Re: I don’t use a laptop in meetings but what about iPad

Kiran — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:34:10 -0000

I somewhat do that with the iPhone. I usually leave my laptop away from meetings but use my iPhone for quickly checking things.

iPad would be perfect for meetings, notebook size, instant on. i would take it.

Re: What's Hot: Intuit INTU

Kiran — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:39:38 -0000

Intuit has one more missing piece of info about us. Transaction details. What exactly did I buy in retail stores? Many small startups have tried to solve this with Digital Receipts but haven't been able to. Now Intuit is getting into it with Quick Receipts. http://myquickreceipts.intu...
I have a feeling they will crack it and own our financial and purchase info completely.

Re: Facebook Email? No Thanks!

Kiran — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:34:23 -0000

Agree with you. No thanks!

Re: Welcome VirtualBox

Kiran — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:06:18 -0000

I am a huge fan of virtualization, especially within an enterprise virtualization wins where there so many doors that block the clouds.
I am hoping to see build level integrations where the builds that generate the installers also generate the vm images with everything pre-installed and configured. We struggle to get enough number of machines with enough power to validate 100's of combinations. The internal cloud test framework helps QE orgs probably but not so much to developers.
We have a huge chunk of releases, patch sets going on and so many customer issues we deal with, I hoping we get a standardized central repository with VirtualBox vm images for each any every combination that goes to customer. We do that somewhat individually but nothing organized, nothing that is centrally driven and push to the complete org.

Re: Save and Invest

Kiran — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:23:46 -0000

+1 for save and invest. In CNBC columbia school QnA with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, answering a question about ethics Warren Buffet said that ethics are best taught at home. I see a similar solution for 'Save and Invest' philosophy, it has to be taught at home and school. It will help the next generation. Educating the budding 'earners' is as important as educating the current 'earners'.

Re: More Productive on a Mac?

Kiran — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:03:29 -0000

I am all mac at home (even for working from home) but when I come into work I use a PC but its like the car license plate of a blue angels pilot that says 'my other ride is an F18'. Yeah I do find myself that fast on a mac for whatever reason, even though I have been using PCs for 10 years and a Mac just about 3 years.

For the stuff I do at work I end up having to install our software on windows, OEL and some unix flavors. Our group has not yet migrated but many teams internally use the 'cloud' linux servers for development anyways. So the laptop/desktop really becomes a front end for accessing these servers, management tools, office, email etc
I have done hack projects for Google Wave using Eclipse, Google Java App Engine on the Mac and I did not face any limitation.
I guess for me Macs are more productive but at the end it might not be Mac vs PC rather what one is comfortable with.

Re: Is Walk up and Use a Myth?

Kiran — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:50:05 -0000

The way I see it is the next evolutionary stage for Enterprise Apps is Walk Up and Use. I don't mean just the interface but both IT perspective (cloud apps) and design perspective (simple apps). If the big corps (including Oracle) are late to this, startups will take advantage and do this. Like mint.com did to Quicken (i know its consumer product again) but lately I have been seeing lot of BI startups, like Indicee, which are doing exactly that.

Re: What’s Your IDE of Choice?

Kiran — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:34:34 -0000

Majority of my team still is with Eclipse but I like to try things around. Unknown territories are exciting! Moreover I am looking forward to all the internal integrations like plugins for ADE and bugdb (ex: check-in a change for a bug and automatically mark the bug fixed).

Re: What’s Your IDE of Choice?

Kiran — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:04:39 -0000

In Hyperion I used Eclipse/MyEclipse but this year I started using JDeveloper. Its a resource hog if you enable all the roles but in general any IDE I used in the past has been a resource hog. I like it overall.

A side note: The disqus login to comment on the iPhone was unusable. It does not render correctly, however I am not sure its specific to your blog though.

Re: Windows Phone Ad: What Do You Think?

Kiran — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:38:29 -0000

bizarre ad

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

Kiran — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:00:40 -0000

Robert
I had similar impressions. I was using and hacking little bit with the dev sandbox. I felt it was too confusing for conversations but I do see a lot of power coming in the form of robots and gadgets. I wrote a little about liaise and google wave as a sample. http://bit.ly/q6MHZ

Re: We’re Joining WebCenter

Kiran — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:26:06 -0000

Congrats!