Blog Profile / Daring Fireball
| URL : | http://daringfireball.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Internet | |
| Posts on Regator: | 10997 | |
| Posts / Week: | 41 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Moltz on Those Nexus Tablet Sales Numbers
John Moltz, regarding the fact this own 10-month-old Nexus 7 suffers from audio interference and a battery that doesn’t hold much of a charge any more: It shouldn’t be that surprising that a $200 device isn’t built all hat well. What...Show More Summary
Nexus Tablet Sales: Not Many
Benedict Evans: I’ve modeled active Android users (excluding China) based on interpolating between Google’s announcements: my model says there were 680m Android users at the end of March. Assuming equal Play use across the base (a big assumption), that would imply: 6.8m Nexus 7s in use (consistent with the Asus number) 680k Nexus 10s in use Ouch. ?
A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip
Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords: Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. The 56 senators who voted in favor of the new legislation represent 76 percent of the nation’s population; the 44 who voted against it (and thus blocked it, as it needed 60 votes to break a filibuster) represent 24 percent of the population. ?
‘As One Does When in Cuba With a Cold Beverage and Camera in Hand’
As ever, great photos from James Duncan Davidson. ?
‘88 Acres: How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future’
Both an interesting story on the design and evolution of Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, and a great use of HTML5 design elements. ?
? Pricing and Profit Consistency and the Halo Effect
Macs, iPads, iPhones, and iPods are all just Apple products, and they’re all priced and designed the same way: seldom the cheapest (and often far from it), but often if not usually the best.
Strength in the Face of Evil
My friend and Bostonian Paul Kafasis: Just as they must have been more than two centuries past, people oday are frightened and concerned. But now, just as it was 238 years ago, Boston is defiant. ?
The Default Narrative
Really enjoyed this piece by Watts Martin: “Apple is Big Brother” has become a default narrative about the company. Apple stands for closed systems, proprietary everything, and a level of control over the way their customers use their products...Show More Summary
Google Glass Developers Prohibited From Charging for Apps or Displaying Ads
Declan McCullagh: Google, which relies on advertising for some 95 percent of its revenue, doesn’t want ads on its hotly anticipated Google Glass eyewear. The blanket prohibition came in the fine print of a policy made public this evening,...Show More Summary
MLB.com’s Bob Bowman on Apple, Android, Samsung, BlackBerry
Peter Kafka: Some details from Bowman’s chat with Walt Mossberg at D: Dive into Mobile today: His user base, which used to split 80/20 in favor of iOS over Android, has now moved to 70/30. “The Samsung phone is quite a good Android phone,” Bowman said. But the uptick in Android users, he said, doesn’t track with revenue. Show More Summary
Black Annex
New “isometric corporate sabotage and infiltration game”. Written in QBASIC. Yes, QBASIC. (Via Paul Ford.) ?
Using Quartz Composer to Recreate Facebook Home
Useful video demonstrations (and corresponding Quora and Branch threads) by David O’Brien, showing how to recreate the Facebook Home lock screen using Quartz Composer. ?
Having Conversations
Jon Erlichman and Brian Womack, reporting for Bloomberg: After debuting the software, called Home, for Google Inc.’s Android operating system earlier this month, the operator of the world’s biggest social-networking service is speaking to Apple and Microsoft Corp. Show More Summary
Netbooks Claim Chowder
Rik Myslewski, writing for The Register last week, “Netbooks Projected to Become Extinct by 2015”: Proving yet again that fame and fortune are fleeting — even for computer hardware — the analysts at IHS are projecting that the netbook, the New Hotness just a few short years ago, will disappear completely by 2015. Show More Summary
New York Times on Ron Johnson’s Stint at JC Penney
Stephanie Clifford, reporting for the NYT: By early fall 2011, Mr. Johnson was tackling Penney’s pricing, which he thought used too many discounts. He ignored a study Penney had just completed on customer preferences, and gave merchants...Show More Summary
Hell of a Name to Drop
Mike Matas: Really excited to have @lorenb helping my team out at Facebook. ?
Boston
Such a great city. My best thoughts to everyone there. ?
Motion as an Aspect of Interface Design
Julie Zhuo, product design director of Facebook Home: It’s no secret that many of us on the Facebook Design team are avid users of QuartzComposer, a visual prototyping tool that lets you create hi-fidelity demos that look and feel like exactly what you want the end product to be. Show More Summary
[Sponsor] Windows Azure Mobile Services
Mobile Services is a quick and easy way to store your iOS app’s data in the cloud, authenticate users via Twitter or Facebook, and send push notifications in minutes. Seriously. Sending a push notification is as simple as uploading your developer certificate, typing push.apns.send, and then specifying the payload. Show More Summary
On Teens and iPhones
High school senior Alex Guyot: Overall, Apple has simply done an amazing job at entrenching themselves in the minds and hearts of teenagers. Despite the results of any studies or articles saying otherwise, I can easily assert that the demand for iPhones from the teenage audience is in no way waning. In fact, more teens seem to want iPhones than ever before. ?