phonezilla

I can’t say if Marco’s facts are correct or not, but his argument is certainly compelling. Technology that is “good enough” has caused myriad problems (enterpriseware, anyone?) and served to shut out people who would otherwise benefit from it.

Verizon has reached a powerful point in their marketing: for Verizon customers curious about the iPhone, Droid is close enough. Close enough is powerful, and Apple is rapidly losing ground to it.

Once you see the horrible kerning between the “W” and the “A”, you can’t unsee it. This is really, really amateurish.

I had to comment on this piece, which felt very FUDdy to my eyes.

Bottom line: if you want to serve advertisements in your app, and you don’t want to work with Apple, you need to write an HTML5 app. I truly and honestly don’t see this as a negative nor do I see this as a “OMG APPLE HATES GOOGLE!” move in any way.

The iOS platform really supports two (count ‘em!) software development platforms: native and HTML5. HTML5 apps aren’t nearly as plentiful as iOS apps yet; that I’ll concede. But any article which overlooks this fact, be it an opinion piece or a newspaper article, smacks of ignorance.

What if tech we used today was around in the year I was born? Awesome designs. Via waxy.

If you’re in Boulder and love clams, this apparently is the job for you! (Seafood haters need not apply.)

This is disgraceful, but also speaks volumes as to our priorities.

cameronmoll:

This is crazy simple. Load up the page, start typing. Change the URL if you’d like, add a password too, share with others or reference the URL on other devices (including iPad).

Brilliant.

Mr. Powazek once again nails it. I’m interested in hearing his thoughts on improving comments, as alluded to in the final paragraph.

Gosh, what a dissatisfying piece.

• Where’s Safari? Apple makes a browser, too.
• No point of view from people who have switched from IE to Opera, nor life-long Opera users.
• No point of view from people who tried Opera and didn’t like it.
• No real argument as to why one should try Opera. Speed is mentioned, but barely, and only in the context of Opera v. Chrome for the silly “fastest browser on earth” title.
• I tend to dismiss articles out of hand when they mention Netscape. This does provide context, clearly setting it in the 90s, but really it’s been Firefox v. IE for quite some time now.
• Not a lick of information on how Opera will “speed up” their adoption rate in the US. None!

I don’t use Opera, but this is a nothing piece. Why not one about iCab? Or Shiira? All I know by reading this article is that Opera is a web browser and could be fast.

If you’re a biz analyst, and are looking to work on some wonderfully cool and exciting stuff in Chicago, here’s your opportunity. I mean it!

Incredibly elegant design solution. Love it.

Boy, the headline on this article rubs me the wrong way. It suggests to me that BP is somehow maliciously buying search result links on search engines to redirect people to their own sites; in reality, they’re just buying sponsored links.

I’m not certain BP should actually be spending any money on their reputation at this point, and I’m certainly not a fan of BP at the moment, but I feel this is a slight misdirection on the part of ABC News.

Also: sponsored links are effective, but are users (still) confused about sponsored v. non-sponsored?