Year: 2010
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Consumer product-oriented
The fact that Apple does not reveal prototypes but shipping products is the fundamental difference between their entire business strategy and that of the rest of the industry. — Joel Johnson via DF: Products, Not Prototypes An excellent example illustrating how Apple is a consumer electronics company rather than a tech company. As Joel points…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SBW5MOEpg?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Conan (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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A rare glimpse of the cave of crystals
Mexico’s Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found – some of the selenite structures have grown to more than 10m long. Professor Iain Stewart got a rare glimpse of the subterranean spectacle while filming for the new BBC…
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It Works!
Go to http://bi/ in your browser and chances are you will get the above message. Works in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on Mac. Some sort of browser diagnostic? ADDENDUM: Not reproducible on a PC. A Mac OS X DNS diagnostic?
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Defining an iPhone killer
Excellent point made by Julien Cayzac made in three tweets: 1 SH-01B (Sharp’s Aquos Shot: 12.1M cam, 3.4” WVGA display, BluRay compatible) still top selling phone in JP Jan 4→10. iPhone 3GS is 2nd & 3rd 2 It’s been quite a while since iPhone hasn’t made it back to 1st position in rankings, despite being…
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First person Tetris!
First person Tetris!
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A fourth Mac OS
Think of it like this: Google has Android for mobile devices, ChromeOS for Internet appliances, and runs on full-fledged desktop OSes through the Internet (and their own Chrome browser). Apple has it’s own full-fledged desktop OS, and an OS for mobile devices. As an appliance device, the RAT will have it’s own OS.1 Keep in…
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“It’s not a computah!”
marco: But for The Tablet to be a useful general-computing device, text input needs to be faster and easier than what even the best on-screen keyboards have been able to offer so far. [My emphasis] Paraphrasing John Kimble above, and like I said before, I don’t think the Tablet will be a “general-computing” device. I…
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SLIDE: The three mistaken assumptions of foreign cellphone operators in Japan: “QWERTY” is the most comfortable input for every human being People want their PC experience on a mobile Two handed multitouch is always easier than single handed From @akky Akimoto’s presentation on Japan’s tech scene to the Taiwanese tech community. The presentation has a…
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SLIDE: The three mistaken assumptions of foreign cellphone operators in Japan: “QWERTY” is the most comfortable input for every human being People want their PC experience on a mobile Two handed multitouch is always easier than single handed From @akky Akimoto’s presentation on Japan’s tech scene to the Taiwanese tech community. The presentation has a…