Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Hype and religion

It’s a shame that the all the hype, PR nonsense, and above all the religious fervour of the Apple fanboys point out defects in sacred emblem is immediately rubbished by a hundred Mac fundamentalists for whom Apple can still do no wrong.

This is a real shame as there are real merits in the device, but not to the point of it being even an invention, let alone invention of the year. I think there would be real value in an honest assessment of what works, what doesn’t about it, but the two sides have too much to prove. And the fundamentalists tend to drive those that aren’t trying to prove anything into the opposite camp. Oh well. Maybe in a month or two some real, honest analyses will have been written. Haven’t seen any so far.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 9:32 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Hype and religion”

  1. Sam Halliday Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    Today I played with the iPhone for the first time and it was amazing. I would have bought one instantly if I didn’t have another 8 months on an Orange contract.

    However… when I got home I downloaded Android, and WOW! Whatever the handset in the video is… I wants it! It’s basically the iPhone only open source and with an awesome Java SDK.

  2. Richard Marshall Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Interesting to note that Steve Horowitz doesn’t demo text entry on the touch screen device! It is an amazing device - the spinning globe was an inspired demo.

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