Can they do it again?
What does it take to start blogging again? A new year? A new decade? Or the opportunity to pointlessly speculate about an as yet unannounced product? The question that keeps coming back to me is " Can they do it again? " Not " Can they break into a new, billion dollar market? ", not " Can they redefine the way we distribute and buy apps? " but " Can they reinvent the way we interact with mobile devices? " I remember the time before the iPhone was launched. We had an HTC running Windows Mobile in the office with a touch screen and a dinky little stylus - you could use your finger nails if you angled them just right. OK, it was a bit fiddly but it took most of the fear away when entering a long URL into the browser's address bar. But we knew there were better things coming. We had all seen those iPhone mockups - the one's with a virtual, circular scroll-wheel floating over the interface. We couldn't wait. And then there it was ....