Louis Gray, a tech blogger, covers startups, social media, and consumer tech such as iPhone versus Android, mostly from around 2010-2011.
HN links it for early startup coverage and phone platform opinions; commenters push back on his Android versus iOS framing for ignoring other platforms.
The biggest problem with articles such as these is that the author willfully ignores all of the other mobile platforms currently on the market (Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS (note: ignoring Nokia due the the expected retirement of their platforms in favor of WP7)). These platforms are much more compelling than any other OS was during the PC/Mac wars, and dramatically affect the overall market. Especially when you factor in the fact that all three of the platforms I mentioned are backed by companies which are willing to throw /billions/ of dollars into this space. To ignore them when discussing the difference between the desktop wars and mobile wars is ridiculous.
I was even more surprised when I searched for Part 1 of this article. Not only did I not find it, but I found this article instead: http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/02/windows-phone-7-is-best-windows-ive.html in which the author claims "I believe the Windows Phone 7 experience to be a serious challenger to both platforms in terms of quality, intuitive use and simplicity."
Dave, this post was in response to many other articles that have framed iOS vs Android as the 2 dominant smartphone platforms and made a parallel comparison to the Mac/Windows discussions of old.
I do like Windows Phone 7 a lot. I think the UI is fantastic. I do not think that its current app situation is fantastic, and it is starting with a serious deficit versus competitors. I will not dismiss it at all, but think to discuss it in the frame of this article would be distracting.
I have previously discussed Blackberry as well, but think they have a lot of work to do to be compared vs Android and iOS right now.
Here's a post that had iOS vs Android vs BlackBerry from May of last year: http://blog.louisgray.com/2010/05/in-todays-world-of-mobile-choices-look.html where I said those who are centered on email are still in a great place with Blackberry.
Actually, the small and unthreatening alien went to Python. However, you're right about Lisp being different, and avoiding notice. However, that might be changing.
A-list blogger Robert Scoble took notice of Scheme-based http://ourdoings.com/ and has been using it:
http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer?service=feed&serviceid=13e9baedf2af41dbb2c241bc2a9677ba
And it got a glowing review by Mike Fruchter:
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html
Notice that the first words used to describe it, "simple and unique" also describe the language it's written in. Programming language affects programmer thinking.
We've now put a link to a tour of some of the features on the front page (http://friendbinder.com/tour)
I've also updated the links to include the recent "The Next Web", TechCrunch and Flickr Blog coverage we got last week.
Louis Gray is a blogger who is well respected for talking about social media and social media tools. If you are interested in that sort of thing his blog is at: http://blog.louisgray.com/
Ouch. A tad naive.
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html
http://louisgray.com/live/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-infected.html
Just 2 from a quick google search:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mac+os+x+virus
I've got some innovation going at http://www.nestedguis.com. (update: previous link was wrong)
Louis Gray blogged about it..
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/09/will-future-information-consumption-be.html