Me, on the then-one-day-old Safari 1.0 public beta, in January 2003:
Apple’s stated goal is to make Safari the best browser on the Mac. What’s unstated, but clearly their larger goal, is to make it the best browser in the world, period. A noble goal, but clearly reachable. The public beta unveiled yesterday is a remarkable [...]
Perhaps this will reduce the “bag of hurt” factor, which has, so far, kept Blu-ray drives out of Mac hardware.
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Paul Graham:
Hence what I call the Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it.
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Play golf? Then you may want to size up TeeShot. Use it to score your foursome. Then email the day’s results to everyone from your iPhone. TeeShot lets you track your strokes, putts, fairways, clubs, distances, and other data. You can compare stats from your current round to previous rounds, use GPS to measure shot [...]
Speaking of Dr. J and Larry Bird, who could forget this classic game from my youth? This photo from the packaging says everything that needs to be said about basketball and mustaches in the ’80s. (Thanks to Bryan Bedell.)
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Very strange.
Update: To be clear, these unlocked G1s aren’t unofficially hacked or anything like that — these are developer phones that Google sells, and which Google handed out as year-end gifts to its employees a few months ago.
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Insightful analysis by Lukas Mathis regarding Safari 4’s and Coda’s mapping of conceptual hierarchy to visual hierarchy.
Update: Interesting response from Panic’s Steven Frank.
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Same fundamental complaints as Reece’s, but Piraino sees it as a fundamentally flawed design.
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He likes the new design overall, but points to the click-through implementation as the biggest problem.
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