2. Hard to penetrate China market since R&D was not done with the Chinese in mind right from inception ..?

3. Really difficult to break through duopoly of iOS and Android without critical mass, and to achieve critical mass is almost impossible

4. Just an alliance with D.Mobile may be futile. But with Tencent’s involvement – this could mean something.

Here Comes the First Real Alternative to iPhone and Android

Source: QZ

And the surroundings suggest that it’s situated at QVB? or Melbourne Central. Good ol Melbourne, I’m missing you!

Via The Contemporist

There was OpenIDEO and Innocentive. Now there’s NapkinLabs too.

“….An off-the-shelf crowdsourcing platform will let companies create “challenges” to gather insight, and guide users with a series of design-focused exercises….”

Via FastCoDesign.

As with this article, spotting the microtrend in camera architecture has been neglected…

“…If you look at camera architecture, there’s a missed opportunity that the camera industry has brushed away….

…With the first digital cameras, the industry was quick to replace the medium, film, with a sensor, but the rest stayed the same. But modern connectivity opens up a lot of different options, like being able to detach the lens from the viewfinder. What if you could go to a party, mount three or four lenses all over the room, and control them all wirelessly with one ‘camera’?…..”

Look at the possible prototype! It’s so cool!

Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo.

Via Fast Co. Design.

Know the difference between web & internet?

“……..It was on August 6th, 1991, that Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Geneva, created the first-ever web page—a summary of his WWW project along with explanations to help visitors build websites of their own and to search the web for information. No screen-shots survive of the original web page; its original address simply redirects visitors to a contemporary site providing details of the project’s early days at CERN.

First, however, a few things to get straight. The web is not to be confused with the internet—a global system of interconnected networks developed in the 1960s, originally for academic and government researchers in America. The internet sends information as discrete packets of data using a suite of protocols known as TCP/IP. The genius of the system is that the data tell the network where they want to go, instead of the network telling the data where they are being sent. All networks adopting this procedure—no matter where they are or how they actually function—are then reduced effectively to the same bare essentials, allowing them to interconnect and exchange data seamlessly.

The web, by contrast, is simply a way of organising information on a computer network by means of “hyperlinks”—ie, references to other resources on the network that users can visit directly from the document they are reading. As conceived, the web is simply another service—albeit a very important one—running on top of the internet……”

Via The Economist.

Via Simple Genius: Intuitive Tech Devices For The Elderly | Co. Design.

Time
“A series that involves recording a location, to show the passing of time in a montage style. Each strip of photograph in the montage is taken at a different time.

There is a sense of the intimate intricacy of how time moves, and how people are actually closer to one another, traveling in the same space with others, albeit at different times.”

Via Lens Culture. 

Black Tape

Open Wound

At Tioman.