July 2010
1 post
“iOS is far more “closed” than Android, but at least Apple doesn’t try to...”
– Ryan Paul, Android’s ascent in China might not elevate Google (via David Chartier)
This sort of thing is what makes me so uneasy about trusting Google with anything. It’s the same story: Google is “open” with the products that don’t make them money and closed with those that do, using “open” as a...
June 2010
5 posts
Great Article About Content Creation with Touch... →
Android and the 22 Immutable Laws
The Droid is not the same as Android. Android is an operating system made in part by Google. Droid is a brand owned by Verizon with hardware provided by Motorola and HTC, branded as Droid, Droid Eris, Droid Incredible, Droid 2, etc. There are 47 different Android phones on the market today and many more on their way. There are 19 different manufacturers of Android phones. The phones are...
@drbarnard: Anti-Competitive AND Potentially... →
I’m at WWDC and don’t have time to fully polish my thoughts, but I thought this was important enough to post a rough draft… please excuse the rough edges and rambling. I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, but the story just didn’t go deep enough into my thoughts about this…
smokescreen - .swf files rendered using html5
smokescreen.us is incredibly impressive technically, and I love the strongbad demo but its telling that all other demos (and the only ones that run on iPhones/iPads) are ads.
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
"Just a big iPhone" is the most important part
After developing for the iPad for a month now I’m still awed by the things you can do with it… and I haven’t even been able to touch one yet.
The thing about touch-screen interfaces is that everything is the screen. When you have 5 times more pixels, you don’t just get the extra display space, you also get 5 times more interaction.
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