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Jeffrey Zeldman:
So Google wrote to my zeldman.com address, which they won’t allow me to associate with my Google+ address, to invite me to start a Google+ account (which I already have) on my zeldman.com account, which they won’t support. And if I do that (which I can’t), and some other complicated stuff, they promise that I will then be able to participate in Google IO, whatever that is.
So damn funny.
Loool
Nice iPhone speaker/stand project on Kickstarter.
I like this for a few reasons:
1) You can carry this around in your pocket. (They have slightly different sizes depending on the case you use, if you use one at all.)
2) They’re going to manufacturer these themselves right here in California.
3) These guys poured their life savings in to this project to pursue their dream.
They’re about $4,500 into their $20,000 goal. I’ll gladly donate.
I need this as an alternative to my regular speakers, but also to my headphone!
Phew! Thank god. Clearly their reports last year really hurt iPhone 4 sales and destroyed Apple’s business.
Consumer Reports is very important and influential, you see. There’s no actual data to back this up. And they sure seem like more of a link bait farm. But you must respect their authoritah!
Seriously, all the Consumer Reports iPhone hoopla did last year was prove that no one actually gives a shit about Consumer Reports anymore.
Humorously, they still put the iPhone 4S behind a bunch of shitty Android phones. Like one of those 3D bullshit ones.
I still love my iPhone and don’t think it has any flaws whatsoever ;) :L. iPhone 4S is overrated and bland. PERIOD.
How dare Steve Jobs say Flash sucks on mobile! It’s going to be perfected any day now! And when that happens — again, very soon — the iPhone is so fucked!
LOL.
The best stories are always the ones that read like Onion articles — but aren’t.
Finally it’s happening!!!
A great reflection on the iPhone 4S event by John Gruber (unlike, say, this one). Three key takeaways. On the 3.5-inch screen debate:
Bigger is not necessarily better. Apple decided on the optimal size for an iPhone display back in 2006. If they thought 4-inches was better, overall, as the one true size for the iPhone display, then the original iPhone would have had a 4-inch display. It’s not like 4-inch screens are harder to make, or use some sort of new technology. If anything they’re surely easier to make, as the pixels are less dense.
That’s a great point that no one ever brings up. It’s not like 4-inch screens are some technical achievement that Apple can’t handle. They simply choose not to. And why? Because they believe 3.5-inches is the correct size.
Want bigger? You’re gonna love the Nexus Prime. But remember something else: bigger screen mean worse battery life. Add a 4G chip into the mix and well…
In the months leading up to the iPhone 4S unveiling, there were only two things I heard for certain: “October” and “3.5-inch screen”. No one wanted to listen on the latter, apparently.
On the form factor and timing:
The gist I get, after talking to some valuable little birdies over the past few days, is that a new form factor was never in the cards for this year’s iPhone. It may or may not have ideally launched a few months sooner, but the plan was always for an iPhone 4 successor that looked like the 4 but had improved internal components. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next iPhone doesn’t change, or doesn’t change much, either.
I also believe the original plan to launch this new iPhone in the summer but it was delayed (as was the Retina iPad that was originally due this fall). What I’m still not clear about is if Siri/iOS 5 delayed the iPhone 4S or the other way around…
Speaking of Siri:
I can’t help but see Siri as Apple’s first attack in the direction of Google’s crown jewels: search. Apple mentioned and promoted two partners for Siri’s knowledge back-end: Yelp for locations, and Wolfram Alpha for encyclopedic information and as a calculation engine. Every Siri query that’s answered by Yelp or Wolfram Alpha is a query that might otherwise have been answered by Google. The more people use Siri, and the more non-Google data sources Apple adds to it, the less iPhone users will use Google search.
Yep. And there will be more Siri-powered partners coming. And I bet they will come soon. I can’t believe Twitter isn’t one yet…
Things people don’t think about!!! GOSH!
