Steve Jobs:
”I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
(via Dave Morin)
(via Alexander Klöpping)
(Source: youtube.com)
Facebook partners with Stackoverflow →
This partnership replaces our existing forums, which, while worked effectively at the beginning of Platform, have begun to show their age. We spent many months looking at the right long-term solution and decided that a partnership with one of the best technical Q&A sites on the Web was the best approach for our community.
Good move.
UX Job Title Generator →
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Mozilla takes on PhoneGap →
Joe Brockmeier:
Robert Nyman, technical evangelist for Mozilla, says that the API would be used for any application needing to interact with information or other applications; for instance, any application that needs to dial the phone, use the camera, control phone settings or access the contacts on the phone.
Sounds a lot like PhoneGap to me.
Another alternative is PhoneGap, which Nyman says has been “tremendously useful,” but it isn’t considered a standard. PhoneGap is also limited to iOS, Android, WP7, BlackBerry, webOS, Symbian, and Bada – and doesn’t have uniform support for hardware across all OSes.
Although I’m not a fan of cross-platform development, I do applaud efforts to make it better. But why another framework ? Here is a thought: PhoneGap is open-source. Why not just contribute to that ?
Apple, for example, has little incentive to provide companies like Amazon an even better escape hatch out of native iOS development.
I couldn’t agree less. Apple currently offers the best support for web-apps in the industry. Apple is concerned about user-experience, not web development vs iOS development.
100% Test Coverage →
“It’s the only number that makes any sense”
Despite everything I still hope webOS succeeds.
Chart of the Day: Who is Suing Who In the Mobile Patent Wars?
What to do with 245.000 TouchPads →
Shawn Blanc has some nice suggestion about what Best Buy should do with their 245.000 unsold TouchPads.
Some highlights:
- Printer promotion: buy an ink jet printer, get a free TouchPad.
- Turn the boxes upside down, move them closer to the Apple section of the store, and hope nobody notices.
- Open up the boxes and sell the USB cables for $25/each.
Disruptive →
Yesterdays news came as a big surprise to most if not all of us. Patrick Rhone summarizes it like this:
The iPad is causing such disruption in the PC business that HP, a company fundamental to the creation of the personal computer itself, is getting out of the PC business.
Who would have thought that would happen? Patrick also gives some solid advice:
Just like the iPad created a whole option, and thus, new market (the one you keep calling the “tablet market”), the only way to compete is not to get into that market but to create a whole new one. One that will suck the life out of the iPad market. Something so disruptive, so mind blowing, so magical that, like the iPad, people will form lines around the block for months to get it.
It’s a great post. You should read the whole thing.
Ultraportable? (by MattsMacintosh)
How can the MacBook Air be an “ultraportable” when it doesn’t even have a handle?(via ForkBomber)
“Protecting the Ecosystem” →
Motorola has long made the best modems a consumer can buy for their home DSL/Cable connections — Google now owns that. That prospect scares me as the last thing I want is a party with a vested interest in what, where, and how I browse the Internet to be standing between me and the Internet. Google is now that party — of course they may never leverage it, but do you really believe that?
(via Shawn Blanc)
Reality Check
Bad communication is bad business. →
Matt Drance has been on fire lately with some very thoughtful posts over at Apple Outsider. On the Google vs Microsoft mud slinging contest over a lost bidding war for patents;
Matt Drance:
The first failure was lack of clarity: specifically, letting the Chief Legal Officer write nearly 500 words of unstructured whining. How many ordinary people understand lawyers, let alone sympathize with them? A piece of communication this important should have been painstakingly reviewed: its prose; its tone; its presentation; its source; and my goodness, its facts. It’s quite clear that nobody examined the post with a level head.
He concludes:
The sad thing about all of this is that the patent system in our industry is in fact horribly, cynically broken. Google had a terrific opportunity to make that case and shift public opinion in its (and I believe in the long term, everyone’s) favor. Instead, it cried like a rich kid who lost an auction.
Definitely worth a read.
