I followed the event on Twitter, Arstechnica.com and Macworld.com (as long as their live blogs were up).
I wasn’t overly impressed, but far from disappointed:
Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:
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Comprehensive post on how to improve the “back” buttons that exist in almost every iOS application. Worth a read.
“I never use anyone else’s products. I never do a competitive matrix, ever. My entire life, I’ve never done it. I could care less what other people make. I have no interest whatsoever. I mean, I literally don’t think there’s anything to be learned by other people’s stuff.”
— Color founder Bill Nguyen, Humbled, Color’s Bill Nguyen Friends Facebook | Fast Company
That explains so, so, so much about why Color was a
dizzying, runaway, spectacular successastounding failure straight out of the gate. (via chartier)
This is an amazingly stupid attitude for someone trying to enter one of today’s most competitive markets. My only question now is: How did this guy manage to revceive funding?
TUAW: Conan O’Brien parodies iPhone 5 “loss”
The bad thing is, this is what devoted Andorid fans, or people who simply hate Apple, probably imagine the imagined “Apple Police” to be.
In which we betray our gender – GABBY’S PLAYHOUSE
I really wish this wasn’t true
Curious Rat: First the TouchPad, Now the PlayBook is On Sale
Via Electronista:
Best Buy hinted at possible sluggish sales of the BlackBerry PlayBook by starting a new sale on RIM’s tablet. The deal takes $50 off of the 16GB and 32GB tablets and a much steeper $150 off of the 64GB version, putting it at the exact same price as the 32GB model. The retailer hasn’t said how long the sale will last
I’ve seen how this story ends - the boat sinks.
Horace Dediu talked on his podcast about how HP’s fire sale of the TouchPad might negatively affect consumers’s price expectations for Android tablets and I think this is just the beginning.
Anything that isn’t the iPad competes on price with each other and HP has just made RIM’s life a lot harder.
“The Loop”, my favourite Mac-centric site on the web has just received a major redesign.
Jim Dalrymple has changed his revenue model from purely ad-supported to a combination of monthly subscription — $3,- which is a steal if you ask me — and a partnership with Fusion Ads, for subtle and relevant advertisements that don’t get in the way of the story.
I urge everybody to check it out for themselves and subscribe if they like it. There are only few places on the internet that offer as insightful analysis concerning everything Apple as The Loop and not one matches its bluntness.
This is an actual quote from Michael Arrington:
It was so tempting that I walked down to the other end of the table to see what was going on down there. Drew Houston had just gotten up to talk to someone, but he left his iPhone sitting on the table behind him. As a blogger that phone is a goldmine. I could grab it and start reading emails and probably gets ten great stories out of it before he could pry it out of my hands.
This is but one of many examples collected by Chad Olson, outlining just how much of an unethical, self righteous prick Arrington is.
Be sure to click through to Mr. Olson’s site for the whole story.
Found on Curious Rat
advertising’s image of women. watch this and get your mind blown.
This is very succinct, powerful and disturbing. Most importantly of all, it’s the truth. Please watch this video.
DUDE, Kate Winslet is amazing
Holy shit this was amazing. We should all remember this next time we look in the mirror.
This is brilliant.
Yes. Worth the time to watch.
The presenter makes a great point. It might be a bit hard to swallow that sexy/demeaning pictures of women in advertising lead to violence against women, but no matter how many steps exist between an image and the act of violence against a human, because the assailant has decided that his victim isn’t human (enough), the point stands.
Speaking for myself, I find that Cindy Crawford looks orders of magnitude more beautiful in the left picture (shown in the video around time index 01:25) than in the right. I don’t like dolls, I like women.
Great tear down by Craig Grannell of Timothy B. Lee’s nearsighted Forbes piece, “Why Google is Winning the Smartphone Wars”
Here’s the deal - the “smartphone wars” have been imagined by pundits and analysts for a variety of reasons, including linkbaiting, stock manipulation and incompetence.
We have never been at war with Eastgoogle.
Great short post by Harry Marks with a link to an equally great post.
The piece by Timothy B. Lee is so riddled with factual and logical errors, I wonder how this man managed to graduate.
