So John Gruber named Henry Blodget his Jackass of the Week because of a piece Blodget wrote at Silicon Alley Insider suggesting that Google will do to Apple in the ’10s what Microsoft did to Apple in the ’80s. That is, completely marginalise the company and develop and control the de facto operating system. Gruber’s [...]
Work recently provided me with a Blackberry Bold, and while some things about it are really cool, some things remind you how shitty phones are. People complain about the fascist-like App Store Apple runs for the iPhone but sometimes the level of frustration you experience with other phones makes you beg to be put into [...]
So there’s an article by Tim Wu over at Slate about how the iPhone isn’t as revolutionary as Apple makes it out to be. John Gruber has done a pretty good job in the past few days deconstructing some of the anti-iPhone articles out there but he seems to have missed Wu’s so I thought [...]
With the impending launch of the iPhone in the US sometime next month prepare yourself for two things. First, prepare for the inevitable slew of articles from journalists attributing the success of the device to the multi-touch screen and its otherwise breakthrough design. Second, get ready for the similarly inevitable slew of challengers that will line-up against [...]