Spatial Dynamics

…should Apple be paranoid?
Yesterday, the first mobile phone that runs Google’s Android software was unveiled by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA. The new phone, named G1, will be available October 22 at $179 with a two year service contract.

The G1 planned to be the first of many devices to be built around Android; Google has invested [...]

One of the more simple navigation applications on the iPhone is an application called GPS Tracker created by InstaMapper, a small, privately owned company based in Bellevue, Washington.

When GPS tracker is running, the iPhone transmits data to InstaMapper every 5 seconds by default, though it is possible for a user to specify tramsmision frequency.  The [...]

Earlier this month (with Google’s logo on the side of the rocket), GeoEye’s GeoEye-1 Satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. While this satellite will provide images to Google competitors such as Yahoo!, Google has a semi-exclusive agreement and will be GeoEye’s only online-search mapping customer.

Neither company has yet to release [...]

Last March, Apple announced the creation of the iFund™, a $100 million capital fund for the creation of applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod devices. It is administered and offer through Kleiner-Perkins, a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm.
Since the creation of the iFund, Kleiner-Perkins has received over 2700 business plans while funding five companies totaling [...]

The Good:
I finally gave in and bought an iPhone. Since I’m always on the cutting edge of technology, I waited only six weeks… haha.
Generally, I am very impressed; the design is not only excellent, but the software is intuitive.

The ease of downloading additional applications from the AppStore is the iPhone’s greatest strength. These mini-apps are [...]