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The end of Android Tablets?
The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon’s success before Microsoft closes the window? | The Verge: “What the Fire has taught us before and will teach us again this week is that the biggest threat to Android tablets … Continue reading
Crapware isn’t just on PCs
Crapware isn’t just a problem with PCs: increasingly, it’s a problem with just about every piece of of hardware that doesn’t have an Apple logo on it. Take this experience, with a printer: In a triumph of optimism over experience, … Continue reading
New York Judge Overrules Twitter: Tweets Broadcast to the Public ‘Belong to the Public’
New York Judge Overrules Twitter: Tweets Broadcast to the Public ‘Belong to the Public’ | Betabeat: “Based on that reasoning, it seems like the court will only be soliciting Mr. Harris’s public tweets and not his DMs or private account … Continue reading
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Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong – Anil Dash
Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong – Anil Dash: “Don’t get me wrong; I would love if it made sense for Twitter to be some hippie utopian open protocol that also happened to support a multi-billion dollar company. That’d … Continue reading
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Much as we complain about Twitter, we won’t stop using it
Twitter Continues to Gnaw On the Hand That Feeds It: I’d love to stand on a soapbox and preach “BOYCOTT TWITTER” but let’s be serious – even if they shunned every last app using its service and forced us to … Continue reading
Google’s path is the right one. It’s just going to hurt
Sarah Lacy: Now, a source tells us that CEO Larry Page, who seems to be hell-bent on competing with Mark Zuckerberg whether it’s the right thing for Google or not, had this to say to employees at a Friday staff … Continue reading
When you think you’re in a walled garden, remember this
Esther Dyson: In a world where Facebook can go from dorm-room project to $100-billion IPO in seven years, it may seem careless to suggest that we can wait for 5 or 10 years for a backlash if one is necessary, … Continue reading
The Chromebook challenge – Update
I’ve been promising that I’d give an update on the Chromebook challenge that I undertook a while ago, but one thing and another have meant that I haven’t really had enough time to do it. But, finally, here it is.
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Heaven help me, I’m taking the Chromebook challenge
A while ago, I wrote a column for Tap on the differences between Apple and Google’s vision of “the cloud”, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) came down hard on the side of Apple’s. iCloud, as I saw it, was very much the … Continue reading
Dave Winer, comments, and blogging: some thoughts
Dave Winer has turned off comments on his blog, and I have just started reading him again after a hiatus of a couple of years. I do not think that these things are unconnected. These days, I don’t get that … Continue reading →