March 2010
7 posts
Nintendo is doing it wrong
Without wanting to sound too much like a fanboy, I believe Nintendo should take a leaf out of Apple’s book and shut up about the “3DS” until they actually release the hardware.
Well, at least Nintendo was smart enough not to announce any supposedly game-changing features, which they’d scrap in the actual product.
via The Loop
Hypocrite Thurrott on Copy and Paste
Paul Thurrott you blazing hypocrite! Apple not including a “basic OS feature” is bad and “unbelievable”, but when Microsoft omits this feature from one of their products it’s fine, nothing to be mentioned?
The only reason I can think of, why Microsoft hasn’t implemented cut/copy and paste into Windows 7 Phone Edition, is that they haven’t found a way to do it without obviously copying...
“But the truth is that people don’t buy consumer electronics for the quantity of...”
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The iPad paradox: Less is more - Mike Elgan, Computerworld, offering a similar positive perspective as Fraser Speirs’ Future Shock essay from January.
(via chartier)
I’d like to add that this is something that so many companies have yet to understand, even though it is a basic principle of...
Cultured Code working on cloud-based sync for...
The arrival status says it’s at “Full Speed”… whatever that might mean, I’m happy! I’ve been using the app since it’s inception and it is an integral part of my everyday work(flow).
The ability to synchronise my tasks over the internet would make things even better (no pun intended).
The Download Squad has it wrong
This post over at Daring Fireball got me thinking.
Download Squad: ‘Microsoft Set to Destroy Apple in Every Games Market’ Oh, you thought the gaming news was all sunshine and roses for Apple today? Not so, reports Sebastian Anthony at Download Squad:
Apple, with its locked-down, isolated sandbox is in trouble. Do game developers have any reason to continue working on games for the iPhone or...
Denying iPhone Apps… For Science! →
Or maybe Apple is just going through with its plan to deny access to to the AppStore to apps that have little user functionality.