“The best Android phones available are probably going be the hardest to find, and the least promoted in phone stores. Thanks to Google’s partners, the most open version of their open OS is the one you’re least likely to see.”
” Is it hyperbole to put Siri on the same level as the graphical user interface, or multi-touch? It might seem so, but Siri brings us strikingly close to the future promised in Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video from 1987, which was strangely enough, set in 2011”
“The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.”
“ Apple focused on the other thing they do best: refining already great products to make them better. The iPhone 4 was a great product. The best smartphone ever made. Now it cedes that title to the iPhone 4S.”
A fitting tribute to a great man.
When I wrote this it wasn’t meant to be a eulogy…
There may soon be blood in the streets over the lack of an iPhone 5. The ThisIsMyNext crew (soon to be the Verge) went on record before the Apple event saying that they would be “extremely dissapointed” if Apple announced an iPhone 4S and nothing else. Other tech pundits seem to be dissapointed (even if they still plan to get the phone) with what Apple has put on offer. I think that they are missing the point, and I’ll tell you why.
A Rose In Any Other Casing
Apple could literally have taken the exact same phone, put it in a new case made of some other material, called it an iPhone 5, and most of the dissapointed masses would have been satisfied. The upgrades in the iPhone 4S are substantial, and are a marked improvement over the iPhone 4. While Apple may have signalled that they’re not ready to call this a next generation device, the spec bump alone is remarkable, and will make a big difference in day-to-day use for anyone with this phone. And since the design of the iPhone 4 is breathtaking already, why change what ain’t broke? *
Amazon has charged headlong into the tablet wars, and their opening shot is an impressive one. All kinds of tablet goodness, all for the low, low price of $199.
“Why do we believe that jobs where we are paid really good money to do work that can be systemized, written in a manual and/or exported are going to come back ever?”
