I’ve recently converted from a BlackBerry to an Android phone. I like it, but I do miss my BlackBerry. There are some apps you can install to make your Android more like a BlackBerry. Why would you want to do that? Well, the email and messaging capabilities of a BlackBerry are probably the best on [...]
Jason Kottke has an article about the iPhone that really bears further thought and analysis. Titled Your Company; There’s An App For That, it talks about ways in which smart phones in general — and Apple in the particular — are in direct competition with lots of companies that might not quite know it’s coming: [...]
From Salon, a story about some of the numerous problems with the iPhone: As I spoke to the clerk, much of what’s infuriating about iPhone culture instantly became clear. Both the Apple salesmen and the company they work for (which, instead of apologizing for the exploding phones, called them “isolated incidents”), give the distinct impression [...]
The iPhoneblog has an interesting take over the brouhaha regarding whether or not Google Voice will be allowed on the iPhone. I made this analogy yesterday and I’m sticking by it — IBM licensing DOS for the PC killed IBM and gave birth to Microsoft. Google has a near-monopoly on search-based advertising, the cash cow [...]
Marco Arment from Tumblr shares his experience with Apple: Apple thinks reviews can take 8-30 days and web-capable apps need nudity warnings and the management interface can be buggy as shit and they don’t need us to be able to reach them and nobody really needs to take any of this very seriously. Because it’s [...]
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