Dec 13, 2011
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Mouse (The Matrix, 1999)
Dec 2, 2011

With WP7 Mango available for all, Microsoft pushes ahead with new updates

The Mango rollout, and subsequent patches, is starting to show the appeal of Microsoft’s via media. A bit more hardware variety than the iPhone, less than Android, and with availability of major updates that’s much closer to Apple’s than it is Google’s. Future upgrades should continue to build on this now solid foundation, giving Microsoft a genuine market advantage over Google.

I don’t know - I generally like Windows Phone, but I see myself going for an Android device over a Windows Phone one.

Dec 1, 2011

Terms of Apple's Sweetheart Deal for Grand Central Terminal Retail Store Revealed

All other tenants at the terminal with the exception of a Chase ATM branch pay a percentage of their sales to the MTA once an agreed-upon threshold has been reached. The MTA has apparently been willing to sacrifice such an arrangement in order to land Apple as a tenant, projecting that the company’s presence will drive increased sales at many of the over 100 other retail stores at the terminal.

Clout.

Dec 1, 2011

Apple iMessage and Poor User Experiences

iMessage is one of the more used features in iOS 5, but it also suffers from usability issues, especially for people who own multiple iOS devices like an iPad and an iPhone.

Makes me wonder how such things actually slip past the likes of supposedly perfectionistic Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall. 

Dec 1, 2011

17-minute long video that basically summarises into: There is something on Android devices that is logging just about everything users do on them. 

Can’t say I’m surprised at all since this is precisely their business model: You are Google’s product. The more services you use, the better a product you are to Google’s customers.

Some of the most intrusive services I can think of are: Search, social networking and phone. Google, of course, has the first one nailed completely. It has so far failed miserably at social networking which is perhaps a very juicy fruit for its business purposes, but who cares about that when you are doing well with phones? It doesn’t matter what social networking platform or email service (remember Gmail privacy issues?) you use as long as you do it through your phone (as many people do), since the phone is able to log and already in wide-scale practice if the above video is true. 

Nov 28, 2011
If you leave me alone then allow me to enjoy my solitude.
Nov 28, 2011

Now, for whatever reason if you do wish to point out an Apple marketing faux pas, look a bit further into their history. The above is Apple’s 1985 ad - Lemmings. 

Nov 28, 2011

Since the ad was targeted at the phone rather than its users, people didn’t criticise Motorola for having “no class”.

No clue, perhaps.

Nov 27, 2011

Can the iPhone 4S replace a "real" digital camera? Ars investigates

Pretty darn impressive for a small phone like the iPhone 4S.

Nov 25, 2011

I did a little searching and now I don’t think I was too far off when I first saw the Lumia 800 and thought that it looked like an iPod mini. Here, it bears a striking resemblance to a 5th generation iPod nano.

The following is also quite amusing:
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