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Walker Simon: Whether it is the office, on a train or in a car, only half of the conversation is overheard which drains more attention and concentration than when overhearing two people talking, according to scientists at Cornell University. I don’t know about anybody else but I hate hearing half conversations, and whole conversations.
Walker Simon:
Whether it is the office, on a train or in a car, only half of the conversation is overheard which drains more attention and concentration than when overhearing two people talking, according to scientists at Cornell University.
I don’t know about anybody else but I hate hearing half conversations, and whole conversations.
Seth Godin: So, for example, you could tweet, “Here’s the source for my world-class chili: http://trick.ly/2L5”. Anyone can go there, but only people who can figure out the clue can discover the site you were pointing to. Pretty neat.
Seth Godin:
So, for example, you could tweet, “Here’s the source for my world-class chili: http://trick.ly/2L5”. Anyone can go there, but only people who can figure out the clue can discover the site you were pointing to.
Pretty neat.
Dan Lyons has been around a while, and by all accounts is a well respected journalist. He made his fame with Mac users when he started the Fake Steve Jobs blog. I read this article hoping to get a well balanced viewpoint from a respected writer. Instead I had to listen to a toddler crying…
Dan Lyons has been around a while, and by all accounts is a well respected journalist. He made his fame with Mac users when he started the Fake Steve Jobs blog. I read this article hoping to get a well balanced viewpoint from a respected writer. Instead I had to listen to a toddler crying because he wanted ice cream no broccoli.
A couple of examples:
It also will support Flash, something Apple refuses to do, mostly out of spite.
That is just dead wrong, Steve Jobs posted an open letter explaining in detail why they won’t allow it. Flash on the iPhone has nothing to do with spite and unless you are a flash developer is the single dumbest reason to switch phones.
Froyo also will let you buy songs over the air and download them directly to your phone. It will also stream songs from your music library to your phone. I don’t really use my phone as a music player that much, but still, it’s impressive that Google has this feature and Apple still doesn’t.
Again he is switching because of a feature he will never use.
I’m assuming that Apple could have done this already, but chose not to. Who knows why? Maybe they want to keep people locked into their old way of doing things. Or maybe because they were a market leader with no real competition and just got lazy.
Where is the basis for this comment? This is pathetic.
We’ve seen this movie before. In the 1980s, Apple jumped out to an early lead in personal computers, but then got selfish. Steve Jobs, a notorious control freak, just could not play well with others.
Along came Microsoft, with Windows, which was a knockoff of Apple’s operating system. Microsoft partnered with everyone and today has 90 percent market share, while Apple’s share lingers in the single digits.
Now I get it, you want to use Windows from day one, only to realize later that you hitched your wagon to a shitty platform? (no offense to Google here and the Android team, who probably use Macs, I am just saying that comparing Android to Windows is a shit-tastic reason to switch)
He’s created his own advertising platform, and stacked the deck in his favor by refusing to share user data with other platforms. On that one he’ll take a 40 percent slice, thank you very much.
So has Google.
As sick as I am of my iPhone’s dropped calls, I’m even more sick of Apple treating us all like a bunch of idiots, stonewalling and bullying and feeding us ridiculous explanations for the shortcomings of its products—expecting us to believe, basically, that its flaws are not flaws, but strengths.
This paragraph made me hopeful that just maybe he was going to point to the real issue of dropped calls which piss me off too, but no just more whining.
I have lost all respect for Dan Lyons, this is another cheap move to maintain his relevance. He keeps writing the Fake Steve Jobs blog even though everyone knows who he is, just like Griffey keeps playing baseball this season with the Mariners while only batting .191 – I say to you both Lyons & Griffey: Time to retire.
John Paczkowski: Google certainly has the market muscle to guarantee broad acceptance of WebM and the VP8 codec–if it’s a royalty-free standard. But what if it’s not truly royalty free? Who’ll foot the bill? And is the company willing to indemnify its partners from patent litigation to push WebM?
John Paczkowski:
Google certainly has the market muscle to guarantee broad acceptance of WebM and the VP8 codec–if it’s a royalty-free standard. But what if it’s not truly royalty free? Who’ll foot the bill? And is the company willing to indemnify its partners from patent litigation to push WebM?
Shane Lord: Android just isn’t there yet. Sorry fans of the OS, but it’s like the best intentions of the open source community have produced an OS that has not learnt any lessons from the failings of the dated Windows Mobile OS, and along with the snazzy HTC Sense UI have actually made a number…
Shane Lord:
Android just isn’t there yet. Sorry fans of the OS, but it’s like the best intentions of the open source community have produced an OS that has not learnt any lessons from the failings of the dated Windows Mobile OS, and along with the snazzy HTC Sense UI have actually made a number of brand new mistakes on the way.
and:
There are multiple version of the Android OS, running on various different hardware platforms with infinite variety. Some may claim this is of benefit. I claim differently. Ask older Android handset owners if they enjoy being stuck on Android 1.5 as their handset manufacturer releases new phones with 2.1 with no intention of upgrading their 6 month old handsets that are now out of date.
James Kendrick: Version 2.2 bakes tethering right into the OS. An Android 2.2 phone can supply the data connectivity for any device over Wi-Fi with just a few simple steps. Laptops can also be tethered via a USB cable. It is important to note that even though this is now integrated into Android, the carriers…
James Kendrick:
Version 2.2 bakes tethering right into the OS. An Android 2.2 phone can supply the data connectivity for any device over Wi-Fi with just a few simple steps. Laptops can also be tethered via a USB cable. It is important to note that even though this is now integrated into Android, the carriers will have final say on whether a given phone will have this activated, and how much it will cost to use.
Mathew Ingram: That said, however, the company maintains that the issue was a simple oversight, and nothing worth getting concerned about. And this isn’t the first time Google has played down complaints about its behavior on privacy. After Buzz was launched and a number of users criticized the company for connecting them with all their…
Mathew Ingram:
That said, however, the company maintains that the issue was a simple oversight, and nothing worth getting concerned about. And this isn’t the first time Google has played down complaints about its behavior on privacy. After Buzz was launched and a number of users criticized the company for connecting them with all their email contacts whether they wanted to be connected or not — subsequently publicizing those connections without making it clear they would be public — Google CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees of one conference that the issue was blown out of proportion, that there was no harm caused and that the situation was primarily a result of users misunderstanding the service.
Privacy is an issue that will not go away, better square away your companies privacy policy.
Kamran Laider: Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube indefinitely in a bid to contain “blasphemous” material, officials said on Thursday. Pakistan is like a less strict China, which well…
Kamran Laider:
Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube indefinitely in a bid to contain “blasphemous” material, officials said on Thursday.
Pakistan is like a less strict China, which well…
MG Siegler: “TV meets web. Web meets TV” is the slogan Google is going with for this new endeavor. It will work as a new box — you’ll just hook up your existing cable or satellite box to it. All the hardware will include a keyboard and a mouse — but it will work with…
MG Siegler:
“TV meets web. Web meets TV” is the slogan Google is going with for this new endeavor. It will work as a new box — you’ll just hook up your existing cable or satellite box to it. All the hardware will include a keyboard and a mouse — but it will work with Android phones too. And you can use multiple Android devices to control the same TV — no more fighting over the remote.
No word yet on performance or battery life. Interestingly it only works on the newest version of Android – 2.1.
No word yet on performance or battery life. Interestingly it only works on the newest version of Android – 2.1.
This is stupid, if HP really bought Palm to bring WebOS to their printers then they are a special kind of idiot. Printers are going to become specialty items shortly. There is no need for them other than art production.
This is stupid, if HP really bought Palm to bring WebOS to their printers then they are a special kind of idiot. Printers are going to become specialty items shortly. There is no need for them other than art production.
Mossberg: However, the data speeds I got in my tests weren’t spectacular, or anywhere close to the typical maximum Sprint claims, even in Baltimore, where the company’s 4G network is mature. And, when using 4G, the EVO’s battery runs down alarmingly fast. In my tests, it didn’t last through a full day with 4G turned…
Mossberg:
However, the data speeds I got in my tests weren’t spectacular, or anywhere close to the typical maximum Sprint claims, even in Baltimore, where the company’s 4G network is mature. And, when using 4G, the EVO’s battery runs down alarmingly fast. In my tests, it didn’t last through a full day with 4G turned on. The carrier, in fact, is thinking of advising users to turn off the 4G network access when they don’t think they need it, to save battery life. This undercuts the whole idea of faster cellular speeds.
This is the same as Google telling people to turn off the features that they bought the phone for to save battery life. It is stupid – this is clearly the reason so many people evangelize the iPhone. Imagine if Apple was telling users to do something like this, they would be slaughtered in the media. So should Sprint.
Kontra @ Counter Notions: The evil man behind the curtain in this scenario is not Apple’s curation, it’s the frightening prospect of Google getting cut off from search and ad revenue derived from its naked domination of the search box on top of your web browser. Harsh words for Google, but I can’t disagree.
Kontra @ Counter Notions:
The evil man behind the curtain in this scenario is not Apple’s curation, it’s the frightening prospect of Google getting cut off from search and ad revenue derived from its naked domination of the search box on top of your web browser.
Harsh words for Google, but I can’t disagree.
Richard Lai: They often dream, but also repeatedly tearing apart their dreams, like a miserable painter who keeps tearing up his or her drafts, “if we keep working like this, we might as well quit dreaming for the rest of our lives.” They manufacture the world’s top electronic products, yet gathering their own fortune at…
Richard Lai:
They often dream, but also repeatedly tearing apart their dreams, like a miserable painter who keeps tearing up his or her drafts, “if we keep working like this, we might as well quit dreaming for the rest of our lives.” They manufacture the world’s top electronic products, yet gathering their own fortune at the slowest possible pace. The office’s guest network account has a password that ends with “888” — like many businessmen, they love this number, and they worship its phonetic equivalence [“rich”]. Little did they know that it’s their own hands protecting the country’s “8,” yet their overtime hours, lottery tickets, and even horse racing bets, struggle to find the “8” that belongs to themselves.
This is an amazing story, this is a great look at the company that makes all the worlds gadgets. Humbling.
Thomas Fitzgerald: I think Ted’s problem, like that of many analysts/bloggers/journalists/geeks etc on the issue is that they’re confusing fundamental flaws with not liking something. People like Ted don’t like the closed nature of the App store, but that doesn’t mean it’s fundamentally flawed, or a lack of choice. If it was fundamentally flawed it…
Thomas Fitzgerald:
I think Ted’s problem, like that of many analysts/bloggers/journalists/geeks etc on the issue is that they’re confusing fundamental flaws with not liking something. People like Ted don’t like the closed nature of the App store, but that doesn’t mean it’s fundamentally flawed, or a lack of choice. If it was fundamentally flawed it wouldn’t be a success because people would have chosen to buy something else. That success been determined by the market you so desperately want to preserve the freedom of.
Very interesting to see how well the iPad is fairing given how new it is. Also there is a much larger share of Mac users than I would have expected.
Very interesting to see how well the iPad is fairing given how new it is. Also there is a much larger share of Mac users than I would have expected.