Links for Thursday February 10th, 2011
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest 'burning platform' memo?: It's looking like, in about 2.5 hours, Stephen Elop is going to announce that Nokia is going to sell devices that run the Windows Phone 7 Series Phone OS:
"We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market."
That "might" there is killer. The whole memo is will worth a read.Why focusing on a few products is hard: The fact that focusing on a few products is such a risky strategy, is what makes Apple all the more amazing.
Meet Brian Sugar, Sugar Inc Boss And Yahoo Crush: Interesting interview (over iChat, no less) with Brian Sugar, CEO of Sugar Inc.
Airplane Mode: "Airplane Mode" is one of the great, hidden, features of the iPhone.
Sparrow Review: A Gmail Client That Feels at Home on the Mac: Looks interesting, but it really only works with Gmail at this point. And because it's on the Mac App Store, there isn't any way to get a demo version.
What we expect to see inside the iPhone 5: A pretty reasonable list. If the next iPhone really is similar to the 3GS, maybe Apple will call it the "iPhone 4s"?