January 2012
7 posts
U.S. Carriers Don't Want Stock Android Phones →
John Gruber:
Negotiations with the carriers:
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.
Don't start from scratch →
I found some new reading material.
A common mistake people make when trying to answer a mathematical question is to work from first principles: it is almost always easier to modify something you already know. This article illustrates the point with examples that range from simple arithmetic to the forefront of research.
December 2011
10 posts
Daring Fireball: Merry →
“How much then, for one day with what my family has right now? How much? Everything.”
November 2011
17 posts
At the time Southern Cross sleeps →
Yasuaki Segawa:
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
A great read. Not for Bret’s slightly extreme views of the current state of touch interfaces, but for the deep understanding and insightful explanation of how we interact with the world. Made me think. It’s worth reading the whole thing.
What can you do with a Picture Under Glass? You can slide it.
That’s the fundamental gesture in this technology. Sliding a finger along a...
Jobs interview in theaters →
Dave Caolo, on the decision to screen lost interview footage with Steve Jobs in 1996:
This is unsavory to me. I don’t begrudge Cringely’s right to make a buck, but this feels like he’s knowingly profiting on the man’s death and I don’t like it.
Priorities →
Very good post by Merlin Mann on priorities. Read the whole thing.
You can’t “prioritize” a list of 20 tasks any more than you can “uniqueify” 20 objects by “uniqueness,” or “pregnantitze” 20 women by “pregnantness.” Each of those words means something.
An item is either unique or it is not. A woman is either pregnant or she...
The Eatery: A Photo App That Aims to Change the... →
This might be the one food app I actually end up sticking with. Looks brilliant:
The Eatery is a new “photo sharing” app that’s focused more on health than photography. Instead of being judged on aesthetics photographs are rated based on whether people think the food is healthy or not. Your “photo habits” are also crunched and turned into useful infographics and statistics about how and when...
October 2011
23 posts
The Reason Why Siri’s Dictation Key on the iPhone... →
Gary Ng, via DF:
When you’re typing quickly, the light grey dictate key becomes the space bar. If you pause or hesitate your speed ever so slightly, magically, it morphs back to the dictate key again.
The Just-Buy-Our-Devices Model →
John Gruber:
Google’s ad-driven model disrupted Microsoft’s pay-for-software-licenses model. Apple’s just-buy-our-devices-and-look-at-all-the-cool-shit-you-get-with-them model could disrupt Google’s ad-driven model.
