November 2011
10 posts
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Angry Birds Developer Turns Down $2,250,000,000... →
The only people crazier than the ones offering billions of dollars for the Angry Birds franchise are the people who turned it down. It’s an epic fad of Pokémon proportions, except Pokémon was at least a much better mobile game. 1
In fact, I’d still say it’s the best mobile game of all time. ↩
Jeff Broderick's Settings Profiles for the iPhone →
It’s really cool that you can do stuff like this without jail breaking the device. It’s not seamless, exactly, depending on URL’s to function, but it’s definitely handy. The icons are well done, too.
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The Right Guy for the Wrong Job
The latest episodes of Hypercritical and The Talk Show talk about the official Steve Jobs biography, giving it serious criticism. On Hypercritical, John Siracusa calls him the wrong guy - because he had no interest in technology, and that the book should have both been more accurate and also have made a better effort to educate the reader about the ins and outs of the things that Apple and NeXT...
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A Fictional Apple Store Conversation
Shopper: “So, why should I get an iPhone instead of one of those Droid phones? The specs are so much higher.” Employee: “The specs don’t matter, it’s the experience that matters.” Shopper: “OK, so should I get an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 4S?” Employee: “Well, I would recommend the 4S because… hmm.”
For all the talk that specs...
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News in the Digital Era →
Right now, most news organizations are trying to stay relevant without actually changing their structure, which is a terrible decision on everyone’s part. The industry is built around the idea that every news organization has limited reach - local, regional and national organizations, with more relevant but lower quality material at the bottom, and high quality but general material at the...
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Kindle Fire Review →
So, an Android tablet, with an even more confused UI, an even worse app selection (coupled with a developer-hostile enviroment) and mediocre & limited hardware. All this is attached, however, to a pleasant content purchase & use experience and, most importantly, a $200 price tag.
The big question is: is it any good at doing the things that, say, an equally expensive iPod Touch...
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Innovative Startup Forced to Shut Down Production... →
Sensationalist? Not sensationalist enough. They got burned because they couldn’t afford to prove that they were right. At the very least, there needs to be reform so that small companies can afford to fight back when the USPTO makes mistakes.
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Apple Kicks Out Researcher for Discovering Hole,... →
If the guys at Microsoft’s developer relations group gave any thought to this, then this is actually a subtly ballsy move. They’re not just allowing, but encouraging Charlie Miller to go to its OS and poke holes in it. This is coming from the same company that built its flagship desktop OS and web browsers out of swiss cheese and unlocked screen doors.