Eknath Kadam

Back in 2008 when I visited Yosemite I did a lot of photography and videography. I also tried some Panoramic photography. Here are some samples. Click on each picture to see its full size. More to come soon.

About 18 months since I launched my first iPhone app, Festivals. The count for all app downloads just reached one million.

If you are Android developer or have an Android phone you might know that Google uses its Google checkout for Android Market transactions. Developers have to opt for a merchant account to sell apps and receive payments. One clause of the Google checkout agreement is that if user disputes a Google Checkout transaction, Google is not going to try to resolve the dispute but simply chargeback developer.

Now, Android developers do not charge users directly, like other Google Checkout merchants do. In fact developers have no control what-so-ever in Google Checkout system. So if a dispute arises for whatever reason and credit card company decides against merchant, its Google’s fault. But developers has to pay the price for it.

So here is an example when a chargeback happens.

Developers obviously have to pay back the original charge. In addition to that he pays $3 in Chargeback fees.

Thanks Google for screwing developers so royally!

Forget about netbooks or your laptops…these are too heavy and cumbersome to use. Forget about smart phones….their screens are just too tiny and they arent powerful enough. iPad is the thing going forward.

I havent used one yet, but I can imagine how intimate this device is going to be. I have started using iPhone for many of the tasks that I would normally do on my Mac. But iPhone’s screen is too small and it isnt powerful enough to do some heavy tasks. Going forward, once iPad comes in my hand, I will be using it for most of the tasks while sitting on my couch. The whole experience is going to be awesome. Sitting on a couch in a relaxed mode and doing some serious works is going to be exciting. I cant wait to see more productivity apps coming to iPad. With such a big screen, many of the desktop class apps will make it to the iPad.

I am sure with the release of iPhone OS 4.0 a iPad will be much more capable than what its today. Multi-tasking is not going to be a big issue provided iPad has 10 hours of battery life. The 4th generation iPhone will also have multi-tasking and a long battery life. I am sure that Apple is going to put their new silicon in 4th generation iPhone.

Netbooks and rest of the tablet market is simply gonna die. With 140K app in the App Store, there is no possibility that the competition would ever be able to catch up.