Anyone who knows me knows that I am an Apple fanboy. But I have room in my heart to be another kind of fanboy–especially when it feeds my fanboyism for Apple. I’m talking about my lust for Speck, the Palo Alto based case designer/manufacturers who (mostly) make cases for Apple products. My very first Speck case, [...]
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Google+ and the Android Trojan Horse
I was skeptical at first, but I think there is a future in Google+. I’ve been using it this last week, and it’s not perfect, but not bad either. I was skeptical because of Google’s massive social fails in Buzz, Latitude, Wave and +1 (although to be fair +1 on its own is a fail, [...]
The Truth About iMessage in iOS 5: It’s Sublime
For years, I’ve been told about how cool BBM is on the BlackBerry. BlackBerry users tried to tell me why it was so cool, but they never succeeded. It always ended with a “You have to use it yourself, and then you’d understand.” I knew the details about how BBM worked, but I didn’t understand. [...]
FT, You’re Missing the Point With Your HTML 5 iPad Web App (an open letter to FT.com)
FT. Don’t get me wrong. I know what you are trying to do here with your HTML 5 web app. It’s actually pretty slick, and delivers on a lot of the promises about HTML 5 that I’ve been hearing lo these many years. You want to go around Apple’s 30% subscription cut, I get it. [...]
Microsoft’s WP7 Ad Campaign: Buy Our Unsexy Phones!
Oh deary me. By all accounts, Microsoft have made themselves a nice little smartphone OS in Windows Phone 7, but alas, they are shooting themselves in the foot with a very clever, very slick, very expensive, but ultimately horribly misguided ad campaign. I’m sure you’ve seen these ads all over the place. The message in [...]
Mobilize 2010: Tango–Think Cross-Platform FaceTime Over 3G
I had a chance to check out a cool new free iPhone/Android app that officially launched today at Mobilize: Tango Video Calls. Tango enables 3G VoIP and video calls between any two users who both have Tango installed and are registered. This is a pretty big barrier as far as user acquisition/usability, but before I [...]
Windows Phone 7: Excellent, Also Doomed?
Microsoft has conceded that a capacitive touchsreen and a touch UI is the future of mobility, but they are foolishly clinging to their ancient, desktop-inspired business model.
San Francisco: Conferenceville, USA
Ahoy from sunny SF, MIR readers! Ewan has been giving us the goods from BlackBerry DevCon all week, all the while a small local blog called TechCrunch had its own Disrupt conference in our humble bayside town. Well today, I’m at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference and next week I’ll be at CTIA. I’ll do my best [...]
iPad, iPad iPad. iPad? iPad… iPad!
As the title to this post might suggest, the iPad has been on my mind, and if Techmeme is an accurate zeitgeist of the webernets, it’s on everyone else’s mind too. As I write this, 10 of the top 12 stories on the Techmeme are about the iPad. So I got one on Saturday. In [...]
How Microsoft Got its Groove Back(?)
So everyone is talking about the news from Barcelona: Microsoft is flirting with relevance again in the mobile space. How? By burning the house down, throwing the baby out with the bath-water or any other cliche that describes them abandoning their ancient, god-awful legacy-ware that was Windows Mobile. Although the ‘Softies are keeping WinMo 6.x [...]
The iPad is nothing but an oversized iPhone–now where does the line form to buy one?
Yes, it has a cringe-worthy name. Yes it’s a closed development environment. Yes it’s $500 I don’t NEED to spend. Yes it is highly derivative of the iPhone. Yes it has a huge bezel. Yes it’s on AT&T’s shameful excuse for a network. And yes, I want–nay–must have one. I will now address each potential [...]
App Review (iPhone)  Shoeboxed, a stonking way to manage receipts
I have been meaning to try the Shoeboxed app for the iPhone, and a recent business trip to New York was the perfect opportunity. The idea behind Shoeboxed is solid, it is definitely a utilitarian app that aims to make your life easier. Rather than having to keep and then transcribe your receipts, all you [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
- Nokia’s six-screen “Agora” Social Visualizer launches internally
- MWC: I just can’t wait for App Planet!
- Baby Number Two is due any moment — So I’m not going to MWC!
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?
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