November 2008
14 posts
I didn’t expect the Blackberry Storm to take such a beating. I even initially thought the clicky screen was a clever idea, but it solves the wrong problem. The big advantage of a physical keyboard isn’t the tactile feedback, it’s the pre-feedback — feeling the damned button you’re about to depress.
The question I really want to ask Blackberry fans (and iPhone skeptics) is:...
Some very important assumptions about iPhone programming just got thrown out the window.
Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessler has reported to Touch Arcade that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis game is noticeably different across models. TouchSports Tennis delivers some impressive 3D rendering and required optimization specifically to run consistently on every device.
I had...
“Chinese Democracy is (pretty much) the last Old Media album we’ll ever...”
– Chuck Klosterman for the AV Club
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Kindle Economics
…we took a look at twelve New York Times best sellers, and totaled up the prices, assuming mostly hardcover with some paperbacks — this came to $168.15 if we bought them on Amazon. The Kindle [editions] cost would have been $109.11. In other words, if you read one book per month, and you subtract the cost of the Kindle, your net savings per year is approximately $59.04.
And that’s...
Time Magazine lists “the branded candidate” as among the Best Inventions of 2008. I wonder what Naomi Klein makes of this.
I’ve also been wondering how long we’ll be seeing Obama shirts and buttons being casually worn. I might try wearing one for a month in 2009 as an experiment.
quick prediction: Dell 2010 = Gateway 1995. Watch the slow fizzle.
“Why are fantasy and Sci-fi series the girl everyone wants to date, but no one...”
– Jane Lindskold
Here’s a new iPhone Safari wish-item that will never come to fruition.
The secret to happy iPhone browsing is to shut off javascript. Pages load faster, crashes are nonexistent. Go ahead and try it, I’ll wait for you here.
/waits
… and in our AJAX-happy, javascripty web twopointohyeah world, you’ll be cruising happy for about ten minutes before you hit a site that...