April 2010
26 posts
Microsoft cancels Courier tablet →
Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications:
At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It’s in Microsoft’s DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity. The “Courier” project is an example of this type of effort and its...
Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash →
The bottom line (literally):
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
TIME FOR SOME STORIES →
Few things in this world can make me laugh until it literally hurts, and do so time and time again. Dinosaur Comics is one. davesecretary’s stories are another.
Rocket mail →
Upon witnessing the missile’s landing, [US Postmaster General] Summerfield stated, “This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation.” Summerfield proclaimed the event to be “of historic significance to the peoples of the entire...
The 2010 Big Eat SF →
Bookmarked for future reference.
“Don’t be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other...”
– Paul Graham
The Magnetic Fields – Born on a Train
MOST AWESOMEST THING EVER →
Sounds about right.
Yeasayer – O.N.E.
Flying the SR-71 Blackbird →
One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,’ was the reply. To our surprise, a Navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed...
“At a certain point, you have to admit you aren’t good enough to do something...”
– Joe Clark
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Making the Future →
I have no doubt that the computing device that my kids will use is going to look more like the iPad than my beloved Atari 400, and that they won’t care one damned bit about how they can’t solder a keyboard into it. Maybe one of them will be interested enough to program it, learning Objective C or Newspeak or whatever Apple will command. Maybe someone will write a (compiled, Apple-approved,...
The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? →
I put to designer Ive the matter of all the features that are missing from the iPad. “In many ways, it’s the things that are not there that we are most proud of,” he tells me. “For us, it is all about refining and refining until it seems like there’s nothing between the user and the content they are interacting with.”