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On the bright side, when all the Sony data shows up on BitTorrent, I'll finally be able to recover my lost PSN password.
Tablets will make up a huge part of the future PC market. HP had one of the best horses in that race. This will be known as HP's worst move.
Also, 2880×1800 pixels are a lower effective resolution than the current hi-res 15" MacBook Pro (1680x1050). (I ordered one anyway :-)
Remember when Palm started shipping its phones with Windows Mobile and abandoned development of its own system? That went really well.
"User-centric design process" and "asking people for their opinions" are two very different things.
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Today's tablet market is akin to the pre-iPod MP3 player market. Some public interest, huge potential, no good products, no actual success.
The grain of truth in the "webOS on iPad" rumor might be that webOS's HTML/JS apps run faster in iPad's Safari than on a TouchPad.
I guess we should all be thankful that *Sony* isn't tracking and storing all of our location data.
Remember when Firefox was supposed to be the *lightweight* branch of the Mozilla Suite? Maybe we need a Firefox for Firefox.
If the goal of Apple's approval process is to curate quality content, they're utterly failing at the "quality" part.
Looks like Google just bought itself a nice patent portfolio (and some kind of hardware company or something).
The idea that usability is somehow the opposite of things like style, playfulness, fun, or beauty must die.
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The Mac App Store is going to make the audience for consumer Mac applications larger than the audience for consumer Windows applications.
Funny how Apple's product videos show how reflective their screens are, as if that was a desirable feature. "Look, it's also a mirror!"
Software engineer, UI designer, author of Designed for Use, former wannabe pro snowboarder. My claim to fame is owning a bike that looks like a rocket.