If I ruled the IT world, my priorities would include the taming of Android
If I ruled the IT world, my top-5 priorities would include the taming of non-Mac, non-Microsoft systems. Im not just talking about just the operating systems, but the whole office type entourage that has become essential to support our everyday work (our maybe our everyday work has evolved to be dependant upon these systems).
Love them or hate them, we have grown up with at least one of these two systems, and (despite the bugs and weirdnesss) they do what we want but at a considerable cost!
I have an Asus Transformer Prime, running Android ICE, an Acer notebook running Meego, and I had an iPad 2 and 3, and I have another notebook running Windows. If I just want to browse, answer emails etc., then Android and Meego are fine, but if I actually want to do some real work (documents, spreadheets, presentations, graphic design, Gantt charts, etc), then the device with Windows and Office is the one to go for.
When I create PowerPoint slide presentations for example, I like to use a reasonable amount of animation, and several effects. But I cant emulate this with Android apps, and when I load a PowerPoint presentation on my other machines, I get the Bizarro version.
But the Windows machine takes an age to boot up, and when it finally gets there, the virus-scanner ties up 100% of the CPU for 5 minutes! And of course the programs (thats the old word for apps - for all you younger people) cost an arm and a kidney.
With the other operating systems, its instant-on, but often the attendant software is an instant turn-off. And Windows isnt touch-screen friendly. Maybe Windows 8 will be the panacea for all our IT woes, but then every release of Windows so far has claimed that it will be.
There are a gazillion very talented programmers out there looking for the next big idea to make them rich, and there are big companies, such as Microsoft and Apple, who are keen to hold on to a significant market share.
Hey guys, I have a message for you, why not write office apps for other operating systems, that actually work.
