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The iPad and me

January 28, 2010

There’s a million posts around about the iPad today, and there will be a  million more tomorrow. My reaction is simply that I’ll be buying one, because I’m a geek, and that’s what I do. As for whether it’s good or bad, game-breaking or Apple-breaker, that I’ve yet to learn. I learned with the iPhone [...]

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Stewart Alsop says dumb things, get attention

November 30, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Stewart Alsop is having many problems with his Motorola Droid: “The software (Google’s Android plus apps both from Google and from other developers) doesn’t work and is unacceptable on a mobile device.” Only thing is that these are problems that it appears no other Droid users are having – blatant, massive issues [...]

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There’s these great cut-down computers, right…

November 21, 2009

Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle: “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary computer — is liberating. That’s the opportunity, and that’s the idea [...]

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Come, gentle readers: Help me buy a new phone (Part 1)

November 3, 2009

Within the next month, my contract with o2 runs out – and that means it’s new phone time. However for the first time since the release of the iPhone, I face a serious choice: do I stick with iPhone, or not. Here are the runners and riders. iPhone 3GS Let’s be clear: I like the [...]

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The One Million Application Store

October 28, 2009

The iPhone App Store is now over the 90,000 mark, and marching inexorably towards 100,000. Responding to my and Scoble’s posts on the App Store numbers, John highlights the fact that I think I alluded to in my post: That the position is very similar to the old world of Mac vs PC from the [...]

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Scoble is right about iPhone users. But the game isn’t over yet

October 26, 2009

Robert Scoble has a post up about why Apple’s key advantage is the breadth of the app store. And he’s right – but the game isn’t over yet. 85,000 is the headline figure, and what it allows Apple to leverage is a classic “long tail of usefulness”. For me, 99.99% of those applications are (to [...]

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3′s Spotify/Android deal could be a game-changer

October 19, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Quick heads up on this, and I’ll probably write more later, but 3 is apparently going to do a bundle of the HTC Hero Android phone (widely-regarded as the best of the current crop) with a premium Spotify account for the two year lifetime of the contract. And, by strange coincidence, it’s [...]

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“Please don’t call this an iPhone killer”

June 25, 2009

The phrase “touch screen phone” is synonymous with “iPhone” in some people’s minds. That’s tough on the other phone manufacturers, but indicates the extent to which Apple has managed to dominate the market – if not in sales, at least in marketing. But the Apple way of making a touchscreen phone, which focuses on the [...]

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The iPhone was “a wake up call” says Nokia CEO

May 29, 2009

But, as he says (and the Palm Pre proves) “innovation doesn’t stop here”.

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Apple owns the touchscreen phone conversation

April 5, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I went along to a blogger’s briefing on the new LG Arena a couple of evenings ago, and – of course – the iPhone came up as a topic of questions and conversation. What struck me was the way that Apple has managed to come in and completely dominate [...]

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