iPhone never made it

StatCounter collects different web usage data and nicely visualizes the trends. The race between three most popular smart phone operating systems has been quite exiting in last few months. Diagram below visualizes what operating systems have been most used globally (actually used to access internet, not sold devices). Interestingly iOS never got the first prize as many had expected. Symbian has been clear leader in smart phone operating systems till May 2012 and iOS has been second. But just before Symbian's plunge the Android took second place in April. Symbian is dropping because world's leading smart phone manufacturer Nokia switched to Windows Phone. I don't see that iOS has any change to get on top on Android again as more and more people are realizing how much better Android is technically, ethically and in openness and undeserved hype around iPhone settles.

See diagram in StatCounter.

Drisk game review

Drisk (Droid Risk) by Brian DeWolff is Android version of famous strategy board game Risk. I never liked the original board game version but there was excellent freeware computer game version for Amiga that I played a lot back then. After that I have tried many computer game version for DOS, Windows and Linux but non of them have had as good playability as that old Amiga version had. Unfortunately I don't remember name or developer of that Amiga version but I still think that is the best Risk version I have ever played. Drisk with my Samsung Galaxy 10.1" tablet gets close to that experience. I dried only free version but the full version has support for multiple maps and online multiplayer game too.

Good

• Clear appearance in game itself
• Smooth playability
• AI is a tough opponent but even I can win and get the kicks

Bad

• No possibility to choose to play against different level AIs
• Sounds get soon annoying (luckily they can be turned off)
• Menus and options are a bit confusing and don't use tablet size screen well

A link to game in Google Play