December 2011
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Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 →
I like this comparison. Not quite sure which of these is better… one of them is cheaper, but one of them is not described with adjectives like “frustrating”, “mostly crap”, “infuriatingly awful”, and most damning of all, “needs improvement”.
Also, grab your popcorn and head for the bunker, I just submitted this to Reddit. Should be good flame...
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HP Open-Sourcing WebOS →
Translation: “We didn’t find any suckers who were willing to license it.”
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Twitter's Redesigns →
While I’m a huge fan of Tweetbot’s amazing presentation and feature set, the new Twitter app is certainly less intimidating for new users. While I’m less willing to use the native Twitter app over it, I do think they went in the right direction. The tendency to bolt things on without thought to the overall experience is very prevalent with every other web apps, and I love to see...
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Minimal Mac's Response to that Pinboard Post →
What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return address? Perhaps there was an note inside that begged them to create a model to let us pay them to use the service.
So, here is the address I’m sending my unmarked cash with...
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Don't Be A Free User - Pinboard Blog →
Linked to, as always, with Tumblr, the world’s greatest free blogging service.
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Good and Cheap, and Just Cheap
On the most recent episode of Build and Analyze, Marco Arment rebutted Andy Ihnatko’s criticism of his review of the Kindle Fire. I wasn’t too satisfied with how that rebuttal went, because at the end Marco’s co-host Dan Benjamin was still hung up on the whole iPad comparison thing - the idea that Marco’s review would have been more positive if he hadn’t been...