Wired Predicted ‘iPad’ in 1999
July 16th, 2010Crazy.
Dear Motorola,
Your new phone — the Droid X — is a pretty sweet device. It’s fast and light. The camera, screen and body are all what we have come to expect from Moto. Your hardware engineering continues to impress.
The software, however, isn’t as thrilling. The Droid X is running some new variant of Blur, your super-crappy social [...]
Damn it, that one with the grandfather just about made me cry.
Update: The “Big News” one is also crazy touching.
Louis Gray, on switching to Android:
I also will never tell you that Android is perfect – in software or in hardware.
[...]
The momentum is clear and the option of multiple choices is clear. If I like Android and hate my new carrier, Sprint, I can switch to Verizon and get the Incredible. If I have an [...]
I’m sure the eventual Arrested Development movie won’t be this intense, but man, this trailer is sweet.
Prince, via The Daily Mirror:
The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became [...]
Marco:
The original iPhone was great on day one. It couldn’t do as much as today’s iPhone, but it performed its feature-set extremely well. There were almost no rough edges or unpolished areas in its hardware or software, and nearly everything seemed justifiable, well conceived, and well executed.
Apple tends to do that a lot. It’s deeply [...]
AppleInsider:
In just three months on the market, Apple’s iPad has come to represent 0.17 percent of all Web browser traffic tracked by Net Applications. The iPad’s June total managed to exceed Android, which represented 0.14 percent of all Web browsing traffic.
Behind both of them was another iOS-powered device from Apple, the iPod touch. In June, [...]