July 2010
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“You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets”
– Jeff Bezos — Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’
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RIM stock jumps as market eyes revamped BlackBerry... →
Original headline?
RIM seen unveiling “iPhone killer” next week
Yep, we’re still doing those, apparently.
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Google changes tempo of music approach - CNET News →
But Google has more ambitious plans to strike an unprecedented cloud-music licensing deal with the four major record companies
As I’ve said, war in the skies!
“Apple directors gave Mr. Jobs the restricted stock in exchange for stock options...”
– Oracle’s Ellison Tops List of 25 Highest Paid CEOs of Decade - WSJ.com
Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? -... →
She’s proud of HuffPo’s original journalism, and her explanation for the site’s success is that from the start it went after news with a passion and a point of view—there was no pretending to be neutral or unbiased.
Amen.
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Zero To One
With Garza’s no-hitter today, there have been 5 no-hitters this season. Even crazier is that this is only one fewer than the number of one-hitters this year, apparently. And one of those was Armando Galarraga’s (should-have-been) perfect game.
So it should be 6 no-hitters to 5 one-hitters this year. Crazy.
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Reeder 2.1 Available with Retina Display Support →
nikf:
Reeder, my favourite iPhone RSS reader, just got a shiny new icon and Retina display graphics.
I think my third most-used app behind Safari and Twitter.
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On The Score
Like just about everyone else on the planet, I saw Inception last week when it opened. Then I saw it again two days later. I love that movie. But one of the main reasons I love it isn’t so conventional.
Sure, I love the writing, which manages to make an almost impossibly complex story (at least somewhat) understandable for mainstream appeal. And the acting is good, the action is good, the...
“Facebook and Twitter is what we aspire to be. We want to be one of the three big...”
– FourSquare co-founder Dennis Crowley
He goes on to note that:
Mobile and location are a bridge between the online and offline world.
Which is exactly what I wrote back in November.
And he talks about “check-in fatigue” — a term I think I coined back in March.
Basically,...
HTC to Put Sense on Windows Phone 7 Devices -... →
The most interesting thing right now about Windows Phone 7 is the UI. Putting Sense on the thing would ruin that.
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HP's webOS 2.0 to take on iPhone 4, iPad later... →
A nice restatement of everything I posted last night — minus any link back, naturally.
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Instant Inception →
The website you’ve been waiting for.
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The Top Idea in Your Mind →
Great essay by Paul Graham.
To his point about thinking in the shower, nearly every post I write that’s over 1,000 words is either first thought of in the shower or on a walk. It’s obvious why: I’m not multitasking. I’m not trying to do 50 different things. It’s just me with my thoughts.
And there’s definitely a correlation with my ability to write longer...
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Pitch Bitch
I enjoy the Tumblr Q&A stuff. Sometimes there are good questions. But way too many of them are pitches. So let me just state that I won’t respond to pitches sent that way.
Carry on.
Anonymous asked: You seem like a bright guy. While I understand your addiction to Apple devices (I own many myself, including an iPad) I don't understand why you don't see AT&T, whom you clearly loathe, as a deal breaker for the iPhone? I recently ditched my 3Gs for an Evo, not because I don't like the product but because I got sick of paying AT&T for terrible service they clearly have no...
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Anonymous asked: Something I've been wondering about a long time. The new iPhone drops more calls than the old one. Arrington is using a pre-paid AT&T phone and has "rock solid" reception (per his post). My old AT&T phone works in my basement with full bars and my iPhone does not. But in all your writing, you've never bothered to consider that maybe, just maybe, Apple makes great...
Nokia Profit Falls Amid Tough Smartphone... →
Whoa:
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cellphones, said Thursday that its profit fell 64 percent in the second quarter as it struggled to compete with the innovative software makers Apple and Google in the critical smartphone segment.
64% profit decline. Stock price is down 40% since April. They might need a lot more than a new CEO.
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Microsoft tries to 'Be What's Next' with marketing... →
Apple passing Microsoft in revenue next quarter “Be What’s Next.”
As I predicted, it didn’t happen this quarter.
“This is the first Apple product I’ve ever owned.”
– Microsoft Reporter Mary Jo Foley Buys An iPad (And Loves It)
More:
I bought an iPad. Big deal, you say… So did 3.3 million other people so far this year. Well, for me it is a big deal. I’m a PC.
Boom.
Google LatLong: Sit back, relax, and explore: new... →
I love this, it’s a great showcase of Google Maps in a useful setting. But I’d love to see it go even farther by allowing your to further explore what’s below you when you’re flying. Geotagged pictures, videos, etc.
Also, why is flying on Virgin America so much better than every other airline? Shocking that they’re one of the only ones making money and expanding.
Apple's Software for Windows Ranked # 1 in Total... →
It’s a genius plan really to get people to switch to OS X.
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Apple posts record revenue, with chance of topping... →
Apple beat Wall Street’s expectations for Microsoft’s revenue this quarter. But will they beat the actual results? It should be pretty close (though I suspect Microsoft will still be narrowly ahead). They report on Thursday.
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TechCrunch TV: Inside Windows Phone 7 →
Nice quick walkthrough by Greg and Evelyn.
The little I’ve played around with Windows Phone 7, I think it definitely has potential. Whether that means anything, of course, remains to be seen.
I like that it’s not just a straight up copy of the iPhone in terms of interface. I think that really hurts Android. Android, even after all its improvements, is still nowhere near iOS in terms...
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“Turns out no matter how you hold the Nexus One, it gets discontinued after six...”
– Neven Mrgan, via Twitter. Unrelated: the Nexus One is currently the only device running Android 2.2 Froyo, and thus the only mobile device running Flash 10.1. (via nikf)
“We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”
– Wired on the iPhone network meltdown | ZDNet
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Apple's condescending iPhone 4 press conference. -... →
The fact that people aren’t returning the new iPhone doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist. More probably, it means that customers were waiting to see how Apple, a company known for good customer service, might respond to the problem.
So then we’re going to see those returns start flowing in any day now, right? I eagerly await those stats.
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A Raging, Rambling Debate About Antennagate,... →
This week on Intervention…
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