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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Handset fatigue?

Another very busy week - storing up lots of things to write about, but no time to write them.

I was interested this week by the lack of  buzz about the release of the Android handset. Thanks to Simon Wilcox for spotting and posting on MoMo Tony Chandler’s comment on the Register article:

“If the iPhone is the JesusPhone, isn’t this more the BrianPhone? People just so want it to be the one for them and it just turns out to be not as special as they’d hoped?”

Not just brilliantly witty, spot on. Clearly very few people have seen the actual handset, but I fear that the XDA legacy will leave it less than thrilling, and well, Android is just another operating system, and well, they are just not that exciting.

Maybe even the press are suffering from handset fatigue, or maybe is it hype fatigue?

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