by Ron Miller

Does Convenience Trump Fear of the Cloud

Users find the public cloud convenient, while IT finds it frightening. Do they both have a point?

Read my full commentary on Novell Cloud Formations.

DaniWeb Review: Dropbox for iPad

I review Dropbox for iPad today on DaniWeb. It provides a great way to get photos and other files from your PC/Mac to your iPad, but lacks quality file management tools.

Read my full review on DaniWeb.

iPhone versus Android is Really a Non-Starter

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There is a common misconception that if you like Apple products, you disregard all other products. The argument goes, if you have an iPhone, you are obviously at odds somehow with Android phone users. That's just silly. The two are hardly mutually exclusive, and the fact is that there is plenty of room in the world for both without building a false 'us versus them' mentality around the market.

This argument came into sharp focus yesterday when my colleague, Wayne Rash wrote an excellent piece for eWeek called With Droid X Debut, It's Dejua Vu to 1984 for Apple. The comments suggested that Rash had really socked it to Apple, and that iPhone fan boys would be crying in their free water bottles, while they waited outside the Apple Store in the heat yesterday to get their iPhone 4s on the first day they came out. The fact is Rash made a credible argument between the openness of Android and the closed system that is Apple. It's fair enough, and it's a choice that phone buyers have to make. So far, judging by iPhone sales, Apple's decision to restrict the iphone eco-system has not had a major impact on sales of the new iPhone--quite the contrary.

But the succes or lack thereof of the iPhone or any of the number of Android offerings is not the point. Rash has clearly defined the two camps and fully expected to be slammed by the Apple one for having the audacity to criticize the beloved Apple products, but to me it's simply not about that. It's about choice. And the two approaches can (and do) happily co-exist. So while it might be fun to make it into a war, I really don't see it that way. I see it as the power of the free market. No need to fight, people. Plenty of room in the big cell phone tent for everyone.

HP Wants to Be a Mobile Playah So Bad

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HP has made some strategic mobile purchases of late and it's crystal clear they have focused on the mobile market going forward.

Read my news and analysis on DaniWeb

Adobe Launches Mobile Flash for Android

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Adobe announced yesterday it was finally releasing Mobile Flash for Android, but is it too late?

Read my news story on DaniWeb.

Intuit Outage Fuels Cloud Naysayers

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When Intuit went down last week, it did more than inconvenience its customers, it opened the flood gates for cloud critics who used it as an excuse to trash the model.

Read my full commentary on Novell Cloud Formations.

Apple Should Cut Ties with AT&T

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That Apple continues to maintain an exclusive relationship with AT&T in the US appears baffling to the public, but if they keep selling iPhones hand over fist, why should Apple care who's controlling the pipes?

Read my full opinion on DaniWeb.

Barz, Ballmer & Hurd's 'Verbal Gaffes' Have Purpose

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Sometimes it may seem that tech CEOs are making big mistakes when speaking in public, but I'm guessing these folks know exactly what they're doing.

See my full commentary on DaniWeb.

The Salesforce Effect

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Salesforce is more than a successful public cloud vendor. They could actually be a model for how you run your private cloud.

Read my full post on Cloud Formations.

The attack of the huge Enterprise 2.0 vendors

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I attended Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this week and I witnessed a big change between this year and last. It seems the larger vendors have suddenly discovered this market and it's changed the complexion of the market and of the conference.

Read my full post on FierceContentManagement.