After the tremendous success of Nokia's Qt Developer Days 2010 that attract 1,000 people in Munich and 600 in San Francisco (Burlingame actually) and now we are gearing about for Qt Conferences in Asia. As we do not have the breadth and the access to developers as we have in US and Europe, we are shortening to a one day one session conference track instead of 2 days with 4-5 simultaneous tracks.
But we seem to be able to replicate the success. In Beijing, we have already closed registration after more than 400 people has signed up. In Japan, we are expecting easily 250 developers. In Taiwan and Korea, we will have about 150 each. In total, almost a 1,000 people are coming to our events in Asia. If you manage to get a seat, you will learn a lot more about where Qt is going, what Qt can do and what MeeGo will do to the industry,
Go Qt, Go!
For more information:
Beijing
Taipei
Tokyo
Seoul
and all the kudos to Marie Reysset who single-handedly is trying to bring this together.
23 November, 2010
22 November, 2010
Driving the Third Industrial Revolution
The third industrial revolution will force companies like Nokia to let go, to break the traditional value chain where value has been created from within the firm to a co-creation process with consumers and other stakeholders. I think Nokia is well-positioned to leverage this upcoming change but it will be a painful process to change the mindset and collaboration mode.
I sat in and listened to Robin Teigland's presentation about the Third Industrial Revolution and where the Internet is going. Ms Teigland is an Associate Professor at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Teigland 3rd Industrial Revolution
View more presentations from Robin Teigland.
A quick comment, according to some Economic Historians, the industrial revolution really starts 40 years after break-through innovations. 40 years ago the Internet was born and 40 years ago we saw the first micro-electronic achievements. This leads to that we might be in the begin of the 3rd industrial revolution..
What got me going was the following comments about how Corporations are trying to control their destiny - and this also echoes the discussion about how an OEM e.g. Nokia can differentiate leveraging a real open source platform like MeeGo - and please follow my rationale (and find where the flaws are in my logic).
So, in the second industrial revolution, the industrial chain was focused on things like:
- separate work and private life
- roles and responsibilities appointed and supervised
- value created by firm's employee and firms are primary source of value creation
- competition is zero-sum game
But in the third industrial revolution, knowledge will rule and corporates able to leverage global sourcing of talents and knowledge working in a co-operative mode where products and services are defined and tested in real world environment.. Don't let Teigland's emphasis on Virtual Reality with avatar's dismiss what the key messages of her ideas are, as they are highly intriguing. And Facebook hires Cory Ondrejka, former CTO of Linden Labs (behind Second Life) is another sign of where social networks may be going.
Most, if not all companies today are clearly in the second phase, starting to explore what Teigland refer to as the second step in the 3rd Industrial revolution. Organized functionally or matrix-wise [1] to follow fairly strict rules of roles and responsibility to deliver result and create value for shareholders. If we continue with Nokia as an example, they are steered towards deliver mass-market low-cost handsets which results in a functional highly optimized cost-efficient organization.
And here's the million dollar question: do the companies have the guts to let go and drive the change to the third industrial revolution or are they going to stand by and see it happen before acting upon it?
And the consequences might be scary as the main implication will be to let go, stop controlling and rather influence and leverage what is happening in the extended ecosystem. When consumers and suppliers may enforce their opinions and knowhow already in the product creation stage - not just firms and consumer analysts pretending to listen to them, but they actually being involved creating the products with you, for you.
How is then the companies able to differentiate? How to keep the secret sauce hidden? Well, don't - that would not be the competitive strength in the upcoming Immersive Internet where moving from one way information spreading (early Internet) to sharing and participating (today's social networking) to co-creation and de-centralized social production (tomorrow's Immersive Internet) (check slide 9, don't know how to link to that one directly).
References:
1. Wikipedia on Organizational Structures
19 November, 2007
Google Mobile, Android and Open Source
Heaps of articles, blogs and videos etc. etc. etc. has already been written about this subject and i am not sure that i have anything to add in this. However, i think it is a truly interesting topic and i am not sure i completely understand why Google wants to create their own framework that will have some serious issues before it matures and reach a level where it can successfully compete.
If Google wants to go Mobile, which they already begun with search, gmail, etc., there are many ways to do so. If Google wants to address the vast market of India, China, South East Asia, Latin America, etc. where PCs are far from prevailing and Google is hardly known, going for a Linux-Java based operating system and framework is probably not the right move either. The cost factor for these phones will not be in sub-$100, at least for the foreseeable future.
Creating a framework from scratch, even with deep pockets like Google has, is not done overnite. The first version of Android SDK was just released in a pre-alpha release. Commercially, Android/Google hopes it is going to be released next summer (2008). However, Symbian and S60 with Nokia as a very strong backer and extremely in-depth knowhow about phones, spent 5-6 years before it become mature, fast and easy to use. Trolltech released Qtopia Phone Edition back in 2004 and it was based on a mature toolkit (Qt/E) and Trolltech recently released its 3rd generation of the platform, 3 years later. Microsoft spent thousands of people working closely with TI and Intel many many years and invest hundreds of millions of dollars, and many years. WinCE 6 is now in shipping phones and only after 4 generations of software, they seems to be closer to get it right. But the phones are still expensive and it is not only the royalties to Microsoft that makes it expensive - hardware, R&D and marketing are also factores to consider.
Throwing good and a lot of money may not always help. And I think that Google/Android will realize that soon. LGE, Samsung and Motorola will probably not invest the hundreds of people for 2-3 years to complete the platform. The Alliance will not do so either, many of the crucial software companies are not in there. So the question is, will HTC be able to do so? and risk their 8 years of close symbiotic relationship with Microsoft? i doubt that.
Then a quick philosophical touch about Open Source. This alliance seems rather to be canabalizing on Open Source, since Google is determinating the conditions that the alliance partners can participate. The software will partially be licensed under an Apache license but be heavily restricted by Google in trademarks, certification and other means - far from the spirit of open source. Furthermore, the open platform seems only to accept a version of Java for 3rd party apps, which is not always a great mean to stimulate applications - though Google is trying to buy a community.
If Google wants to go Mobile, which they already begun with search, gmail, etc., there are many ways to do so. If Google wants to address the vast market of India, China, South East Asia, Latin America, etc. where PCs are far from prevailing and Google is hardly known, going for a Linux-Java based operating system and framework is probably not the right move either. The cost factor for these phones will not be in sub-$100, at least for the foreseeable future.
Creating a framework from scratch, even with deep pockets like Google has, is not done overnite. The first version of Android SDK was just released in a pre-alpha release. Commercially, Android/Google hopes it is going to be released next summer (2008). However, Symbian and S60 with Nokia as a very strong backer and extremely in-depth knowhow about phones, spent 5-6 years before it become mature, fast and easy to use. Trolltech released Qtopia Phone Edition back in 2004 and it was based on a mature toolkit (Qt/E) and Trolltech recently released its 3rd generation of the platform, 3 years later. Microsoft spent thousands of people working closely with TI and Intel many many years and invest hundreds of millions of dollars, and many years. WinCE 6 is now in shipping phones and only after 4 generations of software, they seems to be closer to get it right. But the phones are still expensive and it is not only the royalties to Microsoft that makes it expensive - hardware, R&D and marketing are also factores to consider.
Throwing good and a lot of money may not always help. And I think that Google/Android will realize that soon. LGE, Samsung and Motorola will probably not invest the hundreds of people for 2-3 years to complete the platform. The Alliance will not do so either, many of the crucial software companies are not in there. So the question is, will HTC be able to do so? and risk their 8 years of close symbiotic relationship with Microsoft? i doubt that.
Then a quick philosophical touch about Open Source. This alliance seems rather to be canabalizing on Open Source, since Google is determinating the conditions that the alliance partners can participate. The software will partially be licensed under an Apache license but be heavily restricted by Google in trademarks, certification and other means - far from the spirit of open source. Furthermore, the open platform seems only to accept a version of Java for 3rd party apps, which is not always a great mean to stimulate applications - though Google is trying to buy a community.
N95 8G
hehe,
i just got a new Nokia N95 8G and i must say... it is good. Be it Symbian and S60, it is still extremely good.
It is fast, has a great screen, seriously improved performance on both startup, applications and feature performance. It has Mobile-TV with 3 providing some pretty good channels - more selection that i have at home with my cable network.
Most impressive is some of the additional features of improving the usability - such as the shortcut button that gets you into a 3D wheel with the latest used features and content. The GPS map function is great as well and works decent. The only thing missing is .. touchscreen. Being in China for 10 years now, i kind of get used to control the phone using my fingers.
The N95 8G will certainly fly high. I will at least continue flying and bring it with me to Korea, Japan, China, HK, Taiwan and Europe/US. Not that US has any clue what HSDPA means - the 3.5G modem makes it superfast in downloading emails, maps and browsing.
i just got a new Nokia N95 8G and i must say... it is good. Be it Symbian and S60, it is still extremely good.
It is fast, has a great screen, seriously improved performance on both startup, applications and feature performance. It has Mobile-TV with 3 providing some pretty good channels - more selection that i have at home with my cable network.
Most impressive is some of the additional features of improving the usability - such as the shortcut button that gets you into a 3D wheel with the latest used features and content. The GPS map function is great as well and works decent. The only thing missing is .. touchscreen. Being in China for 10 years now, i kind of get used to control the phone using my fingers.
The N95 8G will certainly fly high. I will at least continue flying and bring it with me to Korea, Japan, China, HK, Taiwan and Europe/US. Not that US has any clue what HSDPA means - the 3.5G modem makes it superfast in downloading emails, maps and browsing.
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