“Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them?
Microsoft: Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones.
Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it.
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If you took the iPad away, we would still be able to do everything we do. True. But what the iPad is turning out to be is an everyday computer for regular folks. It makes things suck a little less for non-geeks who don’t use the computer much. It’s basically your regular home computer attuned to the needs of regular, contemporary computer usage with all the unnecessary crap trimmed away.
I don’t know if this is a sign of Apple’s minute attention to details or if it’s just a coincidence, but the iPhone 4 fits very snuggly in the lid groove on the MacBook Air.
Very interesting.
Cool…
(Source: unvisualdesign)
Apple’s Three Laws of Developers
- A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
- A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
10 years (by brett jordan)
Wow
There is great truth in beauty.
(via Ian Hines)
Minimal Mac: Want not, waste not.
via Bill Westerman
…If such images and information do not compel one to use the technology they have for as long as possible I don’t know what will. Seriously, go read and look at the rest of the photos. Now! I’ll be here when you get back…
That shiny new phone you want you don’t…
iPad
I checked out the iPad twice in the last three days, first on the Upper West Side, then in the Meatpacking District. It’s cooler and more usable than I imagined. My prediction is, that it will be the future platform for journalism and publication in general. My prediction is, that I will be designing dynamic magazine layouts for consumption on an iPad in the future, as a graphic designer.
The only downsides:
- It’s a bit too heavy. Like… an ounce too heavy. (I bet this will be better by G2).
- iPhones apps freeze on it. (This will obviously not be a problem once they’ve been ported over). I tried three different ones, two of them froze. The third one wouldn’t blow up in size.
- The keyboard is not perfect, but probably as good as it will get, unless Apple figures out a way to change the feeling of the glass where the buttons are using some sort of electro-magnetic technology. (This is being researched).
- I don’t have 500 dollars to spend right now, especially not on a G1 Apple device.
When I get to upgrading my computer equipment, in two or three years time, perhaps, I’ll probably get an Apple desktop and an iPad too. But I might get an iPad earlier, if magazine consumption on it will start to seem very appealing. I will keep following this device. I am much more interested in this than I was ever in the iPhone.
