Some great iPhone photography app recommendations from Phil Coffman. I hadn’t heard of either Mill Colour or TiltShift Generator before, and both are fabulous. I’m having fun with both.
(Also, I adore the design of Coffman’s web site. Just perfect.)
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Interesting idea, but it’s a shame it’s a separate device from the regular email/SMS Peek. Integrated Twitter support would fit right in with a dedicated “messaging” device. (But I can’t imagine using Twitter without having a way to follow links to web pages.)
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Video includes a side-by-side browser speed test with an iPhone 3GS; the 3GS wins, but not by much. Interestingly, browser scrolling in Android 2.0 seems to have far less “friction” than the iPhone — flick the page and it seems to scroll until you stop it.
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Nice piece from “PacMan3000”:
A war? When did Apple start a war? I distinctly remember Steve
Jobs saying he wanted 1 percent of the phone market. I don’t
remember any rhetoric about invading Poland. Do you?
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From August 2006:
Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its
current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. Instead, the
research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to migrate
Windows to a modular architecture tied together through hardware-
supported virtualisation.
(Via Kontra.)
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Jim Dalrymple:
The next version of the iPhone is already well underway and it
will have cooler features than the existing models. Apple created
a platform, not just a piece of hardware that uses the same old
software. That’s a huge distinction.
If you want a parallel, try this. Apple had the most successful
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Just a bunch of points to keep in mind before you read this piece from Joe Wilcox:
Wilcox doesn’t come out and say so explicitly, but he’s defining “winning” as “highest unit sale volume”. So he’s probably right. I don’t think the iPhone, or any Apple product, will ever “win” in terms of unit sales. But [...]
$500 million for 2009, less than Dell’s or RIM’s ad budgets, and about one-third of Microsoft’s.
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Ben Charny, reporting for the WSJ on the aftermath of Google’s announcement of maps navigation in Android 2.0:
The move sent shares of the top two navigation device makers
reeling. Shares of Garmin fell 17.2% to $31.88 on very heavy
trading, foiling any lift shares would have seen from an upgrade
Wednesday from [...]
This might have been something five years ago. Can’t see it going anywhere today, though — it does email and SMS, but doesn’t even handle phone calls, let alone browse the web.
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