December 2010
10 posts
Pain Points
Marco Arment talks about developing ‘pain points’ to help differentiate between free and paid apps. Excellent advice for all application (web and mobile) developers. He was able to move more people over to the paid version of Instapaper by imposing a 10 article limit on the free version.
What I found interesting was people didn’t care about more features enough to move them to...
Android is Evil
One company. One OS. One explosion.
So the Android crusaders will be circling us in 2011, swinging their $85 smartswords to demand our capitulation in a rapture of inevitability. Inevitable like Knoll, Orkut, Froogle, Lively, Health, NoteBook, SideWiki, Answers, Wave, Buzz, Nexus…like an army of 41 shades of blue. No matter. Resistance is futile.
Curiously, even the most successful Android...
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ARM makes Windows ok for tablets?
A full-featured version of Windows for ARM chips is the best way for Microsoft to make a dent in the iPad’s lead.
- Robert Breza, a Minneapolis-based analyst for RBC Capital Markets
So the reason Windows tablets have failed in the past is because they used an Intel processor? Move to ARM and all the problems will be solved! Yeah!
Seriously, who pays these analysts for this garbage? Any one...
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Awesome Screenshot - Capture, Annotate and Share →
A fantastic extension for Safari (and Chrome) to capture screenshots of web pages. It really is awesome. I’m amazed what can be created with a little bit of javascript.
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Dan Frommer predicts 10 million Verizon iPhones in... →
I think that is very conservative. I guess they’ll sell 4-5 million a quarter. So assuming they’ll start selling in late January they’ll sell at least 15 million Verizon iPhones. Possibly 20 million.
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RIM Playbook at AllThingsD →
Even with the CEO’s poor performance and lack of coherent understandable answers the PlayBook performance was really smooth. Of course, the demo was pretty lame as all we saw was a glorified task switcher and some document scrolling. The specs are great but the specs are always great for future products.
I was hoping to see some real functionality. It seemed like a big phone. Where is the...
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Mike Lazaridis talks nonsense and shows RIM losing... →
This was a very poor performance by RIM’s Co-CEO. Most of the interview he responded incoherently to questions or was contradictory. RIM seems to be struggling with deciding on an actual platform for developers with the Torch running BB 6 and the unreleased PlayBook running QNX.
The other thing I thought was interesting was he seemed to assume that all the performance problems would be...
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Throw it all against the wall and see what sticks →
This is the state of hardware manufacturers. They have no idea what platform is going to succeed - at least platforms they can use. iOS and WebOS are not available to third-party hardware manufacturers.
