John Gruber digs into opinion among Blackberry users on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard. My theory on the iPhone has been that people switching from non-smart phones will love it, and that people who are switching from other smart phones probably won’t like it. If you are already a heavy Blackberry user, the loss of productivity [...]
Will Blackberry users like the iPhone?
May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · iPhone, mobile technology
Links for April 19
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? Darned interesting article on the impact mobile phones have on society. It’s a feature on Jan Chipchase, a researcher at Nokia who publishes an incredible blog that I’ve subscribed to for awhile. Position Is Everything. Yet another site documenting browser CSS limitations. Daring Fireball: The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web [...]
Tags: · Apple, browsers, css, games, human rights, iPhone, links, mobile technology, mysql, poverty, Twitter, Web development
Links from March 19th
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Roger L Kay: Apple’s Icarus Effect. Linked as a reminder to avoid anything written by Roger L Kay. Adam Sternbergh: Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’. Surprisingly thoughtful analysis. WSJ.com: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns Elizabeth Spires in Slate: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns [...]
Tags: · Apple, blogs, business, design, iPhone, links, politics
Links from March 14th
March 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan. jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace. Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a [...]
Tags: · blogs, business, economics, energy, environment, funny, iPhone, JavaScript, links, politics, poverty, programming
The physics of control
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments
When Apple announced the iPhone, there were no provisions whatsoever for third party applications. If you wanted to use the iPhone, you used Apple’s applications. People (myself included) went nuts over it, and Apple responded by telling developers to write Web apps.
Many people strongly suspected that Apple had plans for more than that from the [...]
Tags: · Apple, iPhone, software development
iPhone WebClip icons
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
A couple of notes for iPhone users. The first is that Web pages you add to your home screen do not automatically update their icons when the creator of a site changes them. I noticed that Google Reader had a new favicon this morning, and guessed that they’d added an iPhone WebClip icon as well. [...]