March 2008
8 posts
Thoughts on the iPhone 'App Store'
My co-worker Laura thinks that Apple’s insistence on approving all iPhone apps prior to distribution is a bad idea. On reflection, I disagree; look at the benefits for Apple, for iPhone developers, and for iPhone users: iPhone owners get a more stable platform. Developers get a low-cost QA pass to weed out any high-priority bugs they’ve missed, before distribution. Apple gets to weed...
Blogospheronomics: Win Mobile, Blackberry, &...
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Initial Notes on the iPhone SDK
For calender Q4 ‘07, the iPhone (28%) was second only to the RIM Blackberry (41%). Palm and all the rest are in the weeds. [Translation: Buy AAPL while it’s still cheap.] Full enterprise messaging and security features coming in the next update for all iPhones. [Translation: Go short on RIM.] It’s unclear whether the same is true for iPod Touch, but the SDK covers the Touch as...
Notional Slurry »There are exactly two ways: one,... →
William Tozier has written a great little essay regarding the nature and implications of the term “delay”. Here’s a taste…… One cannot see one pattern everywhere. You are not a generalist but a crackpot if you see everything as connected to your personal model of the world. When you cast everything as a nail to be struck by your One Important Hammer, you’re just falling back on another...
America's Most Admired Companies 2008 →
I’ve never much cared about popularity contests, but as I’m now in the ad biz, huzzah for the winners, for they shall receive market share.
Design Redux / Andy Rutledge →
My buddy Josh made my lunch break happier by pointing me at Andy Rutledge’s Design Redux, wherein Andy analyzes and redesigns popular and/or notorious web sites. Excellent work!
Word of the Day: Earcon →
Continuing the strip-mining exploration of the Tactons Project haptics research website, I came across this wonderful word: EARCON:[Wikipedia] An earcon is a brief, structured sound pattern used to represent a specific item or event but is not to be confused with an Auditory Icon. The term was coined in 1989. The earcon can be parameterized by specific attributes of the item or event. Although...