Month: June 2010

The title says it all. Great pickup by Amazon (assuming a reasonable price).

Jim Ray: Besides all of the new typography, navigation, color and multimedia, the real story is the fundamental rethink of what a story page should be. For too long, the formula of online news has been a spine of text that media elements hang off of like a sad Charlie Brown Christmas tree, competing with […]

About time.

Mobile technology is changing everyday, forcing all of us to keep changing with it. That in itself is not a bad thing – it does however become detrimental when we spend more time trying to change, than we do working. Technology brings with it the great promise of enabling us to do more with less […]

Why announce a tablet that won’t ship until 2011? Why is Wired calling it the “Blackberry of Tablets” when they have yet to see it? This whole thing is dumb.

Tony Schwartz: It isn’t overload were battling anymore, it’s addiction — to action, and information, and connection, but above all to instant gratification. I am not addicted to email, but news and Twitter I am addicted to, or so says the wife.

John Gruber: And, for obvious reasons, the glass back raises concerns about the iPhone 4’s droppability. With previous iPhones, it was liking dropping a piece of buttered toast — there was a lucky and unlucky side on which it could land. With the iPhone 4, it’s like dropping a piece of toast that’s been buttered […]

Not a stupid prediction – maybe even accurate. Still you would be an idiot to hold out hope at this point.

Today marked the first time in at least a year that I visited MapQuest.

Jason Kincaid: Of course, most Android users will still have to wait a while (months, in many cases) until their devices will get 2.2. That’s because it’s still up to hardware manufacturers to port the OS over to their devices — a process that can be further complicated by ‘skins’ used by some companies, like HTC’s […]

The first thing I am doing tonight when I get home – convincing my wife we don’t need our cable subscription anymore.

This is how Amazon is going to compete – being platform agnostic.

Adam Greenfield on Apple’s skeuomorphic design choices: One of the deepest principles of interaction design I observe is that, except in special cases, the articulation of a user interface should suggest something of a device, service or application’s capabilities and affordances. This is clearly, thoroughly and intentionally undermined in Apple’s current suite of iOS offerings. […]

Take a quick spin through the slides. This whole thing gives me hope that Microsoft may just turn it around – competition is good, for Apple, mostly though for consumers. If Microsoft was able to create a “Windows Store” or even showcase where they could show off some of the beautiful apps that people create […]

So now Apple’s hardware offers a better reading experience for Kindle books than Amazon’s own Kindle offers. Odd.

Jacqui Cheng: During our time testing the device, numerous peers of ours who had no intention of getting an iPhone 4 began reconsidering it after seeing the screen — this was definitely the main reason why people started changing their minds.

This is the reason that Apple curates the App Store for the iPhone – trademark infringements and illegal downloading look to run rampant in the Android Marketplace. Not to mention the fact that it sounds difficult to purchased paid apps outside of the U.S..

If it synced with MobileMe it would be perfect. What a great way to display your day.

Great shot.

Apple: Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. That is a lot of phones, I was expecting about 2 million – a bit high. This is a lot of phones, wow.