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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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Come, gentle readers: Help me buy a new phone (Part 2)

November 3, 2009

Having vented about my frustration with the iPhone, it’s time to look at the other two contenders: Android, and Palm Pre. Android Ahh, the gentle, warm embrace of the Googleverse. Who could resist? Well, me for a start. While I like some of Google’s apps, I tend to sneer at them a bit too. Outside [...]

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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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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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