Just received first batch of Custom GelaSkins
I’ve been a long-time fan of GelaSkins as the perfect sort of protection for my iProducts. They give you the perfect stickiness so the damned things don’t fly out of your hands when you use them. Today I received the first batch of shots using my own photos, and they turned out great and delivered [...]
Thoughts on Apple ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference: Apple throws Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung under bus
AppleInsider | RIM, Nokia respond to Apples “Antennagate” press conference Clearly, Steve Jobs is pissed. I would be, too. You pour thousands of hours collectively into a project like this and you want people to just use the damned thing, enjoy it, and have it change their lives on some level. That the media has [...]
Rumors spike about CDMA iPhone again — Recommend holding of all horses, people
Pegatron lands Acer notebook orders for 2011 Even the rumor of a CDMA phone in 2010 is going to piss people off. Q4 isn’t that far away, and with all the fervor over iPhone 4 sales this week — and all those freshly-minted 2-year AT&T contracts — that there’s even a remote chance for a [...]
“What Would Nick Denton Pay For These Things I Found In A Bar” – Funny
What Would Nick Denton Pay For These Things I Found In A Bar I think this is the first thing I’ve posted about the lost iPhone. I was going to swear that I would make this the last thing I’d post on the lost iPhone too, but as the story goes on, it’s getting almost [...]
Ryan Brenizer on two HDR apps for the iPhone 3Gs
End User: Get more latitude out of iPhone 3Gs photos Ryan Brenizer shares his thoughts on HDR apps for the iPhone (3Gs). Results are pretty damned good. Check out his post for examples and links to Pro HDR and TruHDR in the iTunes store. HDR is just a tool to fix the inherent problem most [...]
The Google Phone Cometh
Technology blog Techcrunch.com has long held the banner that there will one day come a “Google Phone” — a phone branded by Google itself, bearing the Android operating system, not offered in partnership with a wireless provider. This is sort of big news. See, currently, in the United States, if you want a cell phone, [...]
Palm Pre Selling Below Estimates
I’ve now actually touched a Palm Pre. I was walking through Best Buy and, for the first time, they had a functioning model on the floor — not the plastic brick placeholder they usually have around. I stood there poking around at it for about 20 minutes and walked away with a few quick impressions. [...]
Digital Music Increases Share of Overall Music Sales Volume in the U.S.
From NPD this morning: According to NPD MusicWatch, when it comes to the unit-sales volume of music sold at retail – including paid digital music downloads and CDs – Apple iTunes leads in the U.S. with 25 percent of music units sold, which is up from 21 percent in 2008 and 14 percent in 2007. [...]
Engadget on the HTC Hero
I haven’t seen the Hero, and likely won’t get my hands on it for some time now. But judging by the videos in Joshua Topolsky’s review that hit today, I’m not in a hurry. And neither, as it would appear, is Flash: So Flash is kind of a big deal on new smartphones. The iPhone [...]
Why the iPhone Succeeds as a Platform
This, right here, is why the iPhone has succeeded as a platform in the ridiculously crowded handset space. From MacRumors: Apple yesterday seeded iPhone OS 3.1 and iPhone SDK 3.1 betas to developers for testing, and users have been digging through the new releases to document new features. Among the changes found so far by [...]
Amazon to unleash Kindle format to mobiles?
I just finished recording a great discussion for the soon-to-be-launched, if not long-awaited, OutsourcedCMO show in which we not so much dissect, as gloss over, Amazon.com’s retail reign in spite of economic turmoil. It’s an interesting discussion that spans the history of online direct selling, including the online cambrian era in which the first macroscopic [...]
Apple WWDC Keynote, iPhone3G, and Snow Leopard
Steve Jobs can do what he damn well pleases, thank you very much. If he — and team Apple — demonstrated anything in yesterday’s WWDC Keynote address, it’s that. Because frankly, they took their stage time yesterday to demonstrate a whole lot of old news, and they buried the hidden gems. WWDC Keynote Snooze Part [...]
Edward Tufte on iPhone Human Interface Design
Interface Design and the iPhone I found this thanks to John Gruber at Daring Fireball and have been waiting days for the video to come back on line. It’s Edward Tufte performing a superficial dissection of the iPhone’s human interface design choices. It’s a treat to hear someone as adept in the field pulling apart [...]
New iPod Classic Busts Apple’s Product Introduction Scheme
For years, Apple’s made waves by wholly replacing successful products with radical revisions that truly evolve the product line. Today’s “Classic” announcement is an interesting departure. I’d fully expected the company to discontinue the current larger iPod with Video in favor of an iPhone-form factor phoneless iPod. They did introduce the phoneless iPod, the iPod [...]
Using Gmail on the Apple iPhone Solution — When Good Intentions Go Bad
By all accounts I can find, Apple has sold roughly a million iPhones since it launched on June 29. That makes a million people setting up the new phones in the US alone, and what is likely a healthy percentage using the Gmail email service. Personally, I have about six Gmail accounts including those through [...]
iPhone Debuts — In My Pocket
I was one of those people. I was one of the who-knows-how-many standing in line at the Apple Store for a brand new iPhone. And, I did it on vacation in Buffalo, NY, meaning I got it a full three hours before all my peeps in Portland. Was it worth it? Now that I’ve had [...]
Why Apple’s iPhone Advertising Campaign is Mad Brilliant
On June 29th, Apple will launch their next great evolution. The iPhone will hit Apple and AT&T Wireless stores with great hoopla at 6:00 p.m. and the world market for handheld devices will change again. This is what Apple does — change market dynamics. But there’s raw beauty in the iPhone campaign that comes from [...]
