Search Results for: iPhone
Tablets Need to Get Smaller and Phones Need to Get Bigger
Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size?: Interesting discussion over at Slashdot. Steve Jobs famously dissed the 7-inch tablets being rolled out by competitors, including Samsung’s Galaxy, as being ‘tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the [9.7-inch diagonal] iPad,’ adding that ‘the current crop of 7-inch [...]
The Battle for Mobile Components
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS: This is a really interesting look into the demise of Palm and webOS, a product about which I was very passionate. I had a first-gen Palm Pre and loved it. I still maintain that it had the best multi-tasking model before or [...]
Why the Galaxy Note Matters
The Galaxy Note is generally the punchline of a joke for two reasons. First, it has a stylus. Second, it’s big – probably the biggest phone on the market. The screen is 5.3 inches, which makes it an entirely new class of device – a mixture of phone and tablet. A “phablet.” I do not [...]
The Hailstorm of Lawsuits in the Mobile Industry
Apple’s War on Android: My normally vitriolic stance towards Apple is softening a bit, but I still need to post this article that details the intellectual property war between Apple and…everyone else, it seems. Specifically, Apple and Samsung are suing each other, mainly because Apple can’t sue Google directly over Android. Here’s the crux of [...]
The Curse of Being Connected
Happiness Takes (a little) Magic: I really enjoyed this reflective post on how technology and dehumanize us. Brian writes about how he’s backing away from most online media, which is suspect is how a social media backlash will eventually start. I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us [...]
Mobile Apps vs. Sites
Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift: Here’s a fantastic article from Jakob Nielsen on the state of mobile apps. He argues that apps are better now, but this will change in favor of mobile sites, and he explains why. Really great arguments. The expense of mobile apps will increase because there will be [...]
Why China Makes iPhones
Apple, America, and a Squeezed Middle Class: Ever wonder why all your gadgets are made in China? Low wages, right? Well, it may have started out that way, but since then the supply chain and infrastructure are simply grown up there, and there’s no way to change that. And since manufacturing involves the physical movement [...]
The Legend of HyperCard
Why HyperCard Had to Die: This is a well-written polemic that laments the death of HyperCard, around which there’s been a cult of fandom for decades. In the middle of this post is a lo-o-o-ong set of screencaps that give you a nice introduction to just what HyperCard is (was), so if you’ve never heard [...]
The End of the PostSecret iPhone App
The PostSecret iPhone App is Now Closed: Sad end to the PostSecret iPhone app. 99% of the secrets created were in the spirit of PostSecret. Unfortunately, the scale of secrets was so large that even 1% of bad content was overwhelming for our dedicated team of volunteer moderators who worked 24 hours a day 7 [...]
Steve Jobs and the Gizmodo Controversy
Steve Jobs Was a Kind Man: My Regrets About Burning Him: Great article from the former editor of Gizmodo about the iPhone controversy, when they got their hands on a new iPhone that was lost. Steve Jobs himself called them about it: The next call, I told him we’d give him his phone back. He [...]