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Don’t hold it wrong

“Mobile phone manuals that describe where not to hold the devices”, collected by David Chartier. (Via Daring Fireball) http://dontholditwrong.tumblr.com/

HTC Evo’s front-facing camera

David Pogue on the front-facing-camera-equipped HTC Evo: After two days of fiddling, downloading and uninstalling apps, manually force-quitting programs and waiting for servers to be upgraded, I finally got video calling to work — sort of. Sometimes there was only audio and a black screen, sometimes only a freeze-frame; at best, the video was blocky [...]

Meet iPad’s competition

Via Section Design (http://✜.ws/4n)

MG Siegler on iPhone 4

MG Siegler: The Mac vs. PC debate has often found people using a car analogy to explain things. I keep coming back to that when thinking about iPhone vs. Android. For a long time, iPhone felt like a Lexus while Android was more like a Kia. With recent upgrades, Android has transformed into more of a Honda. [...]

Apple iOS 4

Just installed the newly renamed iOS 4. As my iPhone Developer Center account expired a few weeks ago it wasn’t supposed to work. But it did. The requirement is to have the iTunes 9.2 beta. First impressions: It feels a bit slower on my iPhone 3GS than the previous version of iPhone OS. The Notes [...]

Apple advertising

Gina Trapani: That’s the thing about Apple marketing. They don’t talk about how many gigabytes of memory or how many CPU cycles or how many apps (much). They aim for your heart, and show you how technology can make your life better during its most important moments. Full article at http://✜.ws/41 (Via Daring Fireball)

Apple HTML5 demo page

New section on Apple.com devoted to HTML5 techniques and examples. Why would anybody use Flash for this kind of stuff is beyond me. http://✜.ws/3y

Objective-C enters TIOBE top 10

The main (and probably only) reason for Objective-C’s popularity is that it is the only language in which you can write applications for the iPhone or iPad. Full list http://✜.ws/3t

Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days

I don’t think Apple was prepared for such a successful launch of the iPad. It continues to be sold-out in many Apple retail stores in the US and on the Apple Canada and UK web stores there’s a shipping date of “June”. On a personal note, I’ve been using the iPad since it was launched [...]

The single most important turnaround in Silicon Valley

New York Times: The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world’s most valuable technology company. Full article at http://✜.ws/2u Anybody cares to remember Michael Dell’s solution for Apple back in 1997? What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the [...]