Henry Jacob

My session 'Think Tablet First' at MobileCamp - Mumbai

MobileCamp, an un-conference for mobile applications, developers and enthusiasts, concluded in Mumbai on 14th May. It is a great event with apps demos, business and technical sessions. I have spoken on the impact of emerging tablet market and how to leverage and build cross platform applications. The presentation is available at Slideshare and screencast is available at Vimeo

Think Tablet First

As per Deloitte predictions, more than 50 percentage of all 'computing devices' sold this year will be non-PC (smartphones, tablets, etc.) and 25 percentage of all tablets this year will be purchased by enterprise customers. 

While iPad ruling the premium segment, a large number of manufactures are expected to release mid-range and entry-level Android tablets in coming months. If this trend continues then soon Tablets will be the primary way the users will consume web and enterprise services. 

This presentation looks at various possibilities of reinventing web/enterprise applications, pros and cons of various tablet platforms (iOS, Android, QNX, webOS, etc.)  and tools/frameworks to build cross platform applications.

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Think Tablet First from Henry Jacob on Vimeo.

PDF download available from SlideShare

Hike The Rockies

Screencast of 'Hike the Rockies': a presentation on strategies, new ideas and roadmap for new age IT service and software development companies

A quick introduction on how Design Driven Development (D3) can change the IT service industry (and offshore in particular)

What Dragon Rider, Cloud Computing, Ruby on Rails, and other Emerging Technologies got in common?

This is a revised version of new technology series presentations. I love to use metaphors, they can put the message straight. This is presentation is more of strategy to deal with emerging technologies, you might also find answers to 

• What Dragon Rider, Cloud Computing, Ruby on Rails, and other Emerging Technologies got in common?
• Why shouldn't you watch 'Reign of Fire' and other dragon movies too many times?
• Why shouldn't you listen only to Java and .Net guys?
• Why shouldn't you ever fight a dragon?   

Dragon rider and emerging technologies

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This is an extension to my earlier presentation on impact of new technologies, which discuss the actual technologies in detail.

Impact of new technologies

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World Usability Day 2010

My presentation for World Usability Day 2010 is available in Slideshare. It is a global event, celebrated across world on second Thursday of November. This year's theme is 'designs, products and services that improve and facilitate communication. We taken this opportunity to promote usability and this year's theme through this presentation.

World Usability Day 2010

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We don't finish the movies, we just release them. - John Lasseter of Pixar

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours play, make just and healthy day." - King Alfred the Great

The Black Swan: An incredible masterpiece

Currently reading 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This book is an incredible piece of work. While reading most books, we can guess what is coming in next chapters, but this is different, and has so much incredible stuffs in each chapter. Whoever read this, I am sure, will enlighten to look our past and future in a different way. I strongly recommend.

Is Apple the New Evil Empire?

Apple is a great company, with iPhone and iPad, Apple has redefined the way your Phone and Tablet should look and behave. But this doesn't give them the right to control what application should I use in my phone.

From the beginning of iPhone, they want to keep the Flash other Open Source frameworks away, so that they can control the App market and limit the people from building cross platform mobile applciation.

However, Adobe managed to build a Flash Application Packager for iPhone, which converts Flash applications as Native iPhone applications. But with iPhone OS 4.0, Apple started blocking application developed using non native languages such as Object-c, C, C++

This is nothing to do with performance, or quality or anything, but to build a monopoly in applciation market.

I am sure, this strategy will backfire, in fact, iPad is one of the most closed product in recent time, and its never going to win the tablet market with this approach. 

Of course, Apple fans will buy them any way,  but this apple's monopoly must go.

Is Apple Evil?

Is Apple More Evil Than Microsoft?

Is Apple the New Microsoft?

Apple banning Flash applications from iPhone 4.0? That stinks