Nokia is still rolling out Qt and they estimate by end of year it will be market of .5 billion phones. So Ovi + Qt is a very real market for at least the next few years. Meanwhile Microsoft transition hasn't even begun.
I'm in Hokkaido in Japan right now and struck by how slow the speed limits are, even in a rural area with wide straight roads. People get used to driving slow when they are forced to, and society benefits from fewer accidents.
That's what I'm wondering too. Android is already pretty fragmented and seems things will get worse before they get better.
Not sure this deserves the excitement of the headline. Amazon's been trolling for mobile developers for months now, and there are many other app stores doing the same.
The question is which ones will get enough traction with consumers to matter.
Google isn't completely neglecting the app store, but the Android App Market is not as important to their revenue model as iTunes is for Apple.
What's clearly in Google's interest is for people to discover mobile content through Google search.
Right, RSS is definitely not dying.
Really good idea, whatever format you publish it in. Will save many searches of hacker news archives.