Before continue reading…. this is just a random posting from a programmer. If you are non-programmer, you might not understand this posting at all.
Recently, I read about The Tao of Programming and found some interesting ’doctrine’ or ‘principles’ for programmers. I just want to share some of them here. For complete list of Tao of Programming, you can either read Geoffrey James’ book or visit the online version.
After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.
Let the programmers be many and the managers few — then all will be productive.
You can demonstrate a program for a corporate executive, but you can’t make him computer literate.
Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless.
I don’t normally write a posting about the company where I’m working, Research in Motion. Unfortunately, I can’t resist posting this one because it is also related to my home country, Indonesia.
Chris Umiastowski from TD Newcrest has just released a video about BlackBerry Growth in Indonesia. Here is the summary:
There are currently about 200,000 BlackBerry subscribers in Indonesia.
BlackBerry subscribers grew ~450% in 2008.
Indonesia could have +1 million BlackBerry subscribers by end of this year.
I’ve been following worldwide smartphone sales figure from Gartner. They release the figure every quarter. Recently, I gathered their figures from Q2 08 to Q4 08 and plotted them in a nice chart. Here is what I got:
And this one is the smartphone sales by operating system.
I won’t comment too much on those figures. I think it’s pretty clear that Nokia / Symbian OS is still the king; but other players, especially Research in Motion and Apple, are catching up. I believe Google’s Android is going to have more visibility later this year.
