February 2012
5 posts
Android Addressable Market and Fragmentation
How big, important, and addressable is Android as a market?
I have had this question in board meetings, on subways, and product planning sessions, and it’s far from clear.
On the one hand, Android handset sales continue to impress, and provide the only credible current competition to iOS dominance. On the other hand, fragmentation at multiple levels, and different usage habits severely...
Formal Hacks
If programming language design is about solving the hard problems with good extensible abstractions, then I want a language to codify “hacks” into a feature.
Coding in the real world, there are constant demands for temporary (and often clearly bounded) subroutines. Handle an edge case in data until we change some client code; work around a slow component until its upgraded, etc.
I...
The Candidate
A few months back, we had a candidate for a front-end developer role who we loved. Self taught technologist, easy design sense, great academic pedigree. A work in progress technically, but his potential seemed solid and he met a core need for us at the time. He seemed to click with the team, sounded impressed with our company, and had great things to say.
We made him an offer, and we lost...
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: A Plea for Better iOS Text... →
buzz:
Awhile back, Jacqui Cheng from Ars Technica contacted a bunch of folks (including me) for a story she was putting together about what iOS devs would most like to see from Apple in 2012. Unfortunately I never got around to responding (sorry Jacqui—the holidays were crazy), but if I had, one…