When You Should Give Your Android Phone a Factory Reset
Ryan Whitwam:
In an ideal world, your Android phone would run like a dream forever. This being real life, we can’t always expect that sort of robust performance out of our devices. Things can happen that slow your phone and damage the experience. Maybe you install a lot of apps, and some of them are acting [...]
Anonymity Breeds Contempt
Julie Zhuo:
Even in the fourth century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity and morality in his parable of the ring of Gyges. That mythical ring gave its owner the power of invisibility, and Plato observed that even a habitually just man who possessed such a ring would become a thief, knowing that he [...]
Pigs added to Angry Birds soft toy range
Now you’ve got something to aim at
First there was the Angry Birds plush birds, but the biggest complaint at the time was that you couldn’t get any pigs to fire them at, that was, until now.
Rovio Mobile, the developers behind the immensely popular Angry Birds games on the iPhone and Android phones has launched four [...]
The Claim Chowder Is Really Piling Up Today
John Paczkowski:
Two years. Three at the most.
That’s how long Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci figures it will take his company to overwhelm the ipad and commandeer Apple’s early lead in the tablet PC market.
Unit sale share only, or profit share too?
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More Thurrott
Paul Thurrott, taking a quote from this NYT story way put of context (boldface his):
The New York Times asks, “With so much going for them why, eight months after the ipad’s release, is the design of so many of those apps so boring?”
To which I answer: They’re boring because the ipad is boring.
I actually feel [...]
How to Compete With Free
Time, on how the iTunes Music Store succeeded in the face of file sharing:
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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PCWorld: ‘Apple Is Getting Desperate in the Mobile Arena’
Katherine Noyes:
I believe Apple’s iPhone is rapidly becoming a niche device. Its restrictions are too numerous, its approach too condescending, and its choices too few to have the broad appeal it needs to succeed on a grander scale in the long run.
In short, Apple may always have its share of fans among consumers who don’t [...]
Paul Thurrott: ‘How Apple Can Fix the iPad in 2011’
Is there anyone who thinks Thurrott’s choice of the verb fix in lieu of, say, improve does anything other than show what a dick he is?
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Mac of the Future: The CPU
Nice to see Anand Lal Shimpi writing for Macworld.
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Hybrids vs. Trucks: Comparing Sales Over the Last Decade
Interesting data visualization work by Mike Kruzeniski.
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