April 2010
29 posts
got my phone back. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
my phone is AWOL today, so I can’t do… er…. anything. Phone related. Wait, why am I shaking? Is this withdrawal?
Gearing up for Roller Derby tonight; the best fun for 10 bucks in Beenleigh without a copping a pool cue to the back of the head.
Sony announces "division two" VAIO laptops | News... →
This is hilarious. What better way to trash the public perception of a premium brand name by making crappy offshoots of that brand?
There’s a reason you don’t see ‘Gucci, by Target’ or ‘Hugo Boss, by K-mart’. Your brand will always equate to the lowest common denominator of what you sell under it.
Justifying it by labeling it VAIO ‘division two’...
I must say Apple, late May is the latest ‘late April’ that I’ve ever seen. Also, I hate you.
“In light of this, says one of those competitors, Rob Glaser, founder and C.E.O....”
– The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com
Even in 2003, Rob Glaser was never right. I love his interviews; I think he must live in a parallel universe or something.
(via Instapaper)
/dev/why!?! - /dev/why!?! - Its all about the... →
In either event, they [Adobe] announced the product to their customers and sold them on an idea they were not in a position to deliver, hoping Apple would be unwilling to piss off developers by not fulfilling Adobe’s promises. They tried to force Apple’s hand by putting Apple in a position where in order stop the Flash they would have to do it publicly in front of Adobe’s users. That was a bad...
What’s with the overuse of the phrase ‘tentpoles’ in an Apple keynote? I blame Scott Forstall.
Prediction Scorecard
limited multitasking
verdict: yup, multitasking is now supported with 7 different services supported: background audio, VOIP, location, local notifications, task completion, fast app switching. -win-
notification revamp
verdict: the introduction of local notifications, but no change to the notification UI itself. -fail-
unified mailbox support
verdict: yup, mail now supports multiple...
“Size matters, which is why a swimming pool is not just a big bathtub.”
– - Ken Case, from The Omni Group
This is exactly why reviews of the iPad that begin with, “well, it’s just a big iPod Touch” are worthless.
March 2010
18 posts
Marvel has an app for the iPad? YES