How to piss off Google…

Is it me or does this product android shot from Uncle Walt’s blog look suspiciously like a Microsoft IE browser? It looks like someone, (not Google) hacked something up and used a windows browser.
If T-Mobile did this screen shot, they are off to a rocky start with the Goog!

Fake lines at the Apple store: Any one want action on a Jobs kibosh?

Wow. If I were a brand manager at Apple, I would not be happy. Seems Orange is paying people to wait in line at their stores to generate false interest in the iPhone.
Jobs & Co will likely respond.  Non-genuine behavior is antithetical to the Apple brand and damages its authenticity. Apple doesn’t have to fake [...]

A test post from iphone

So this is a post from on the road. (And a great example why the iPhone will win as a plaftorm for developers)

Why the iPhone won’t dominate in business email…yet

short answer: The keyboard and lack of push email.
long answer: While on the road recently, I was forced to use the email functions in the iphone more than I had in the past. The vertical mail keyboard is too narrow for my big hands and often the predictive software slows down the process of writing [...]

2008 Predictions

Design and user experience will continue thier progression to the front of the classroom when the lecture turns to technology adoption and digital lifestyles. Apple will reap the rewards from this trend due to its product-centric design principles.
“Meta” Social networks such as Facebook and MySpace will lose popularity as other more focused niche social networks [...]

iPhone: first impressions

The first thing that struck me had nothing to do with the hardware at all.
The phone came with no manual.
It is such an incredible accomplishment to design something that has such inherent complexity and yet be able to execute all the functions on the phone so that they are self evident. This is another illustration [...]

Smartphone Mashup TKO: Apple iPhone: Who doesn’t want one?

If you want a real treat, watch yesterday’s keynote.
Sir Steveness is so geeked up about this thing, and its easy to see why. As an Apple Inc (!) fan, I was blown away at the amount of thought and intense ID that went into this phone. As you can read from the multiple smartphone entries [...]

Smartphone Mashup Update 5 - revised initial criteria: just say no to Verizon

In my initial post on what I think it will take to bring all the right criteria together for a phone that solves all the problems for a market leading smartphone, I wrote the following:

Must have QWERTY keyboard for email and text.
Must have push email
Must have sync tools to PIM on desktop
Must have decent [...]

Name that Zune: Another consumer electronics flop

Now I am all for competition in the MP3 player space. However, if you are going to take on Apple’s wonderfully designed and thought out iPod, you better come strong with your ‘A’ game. And please don’t assume that ‘coming strong’ means taking a momentary lead in the features race. Bringing a strong product to [...]

Smartphone Mashup Update 4 — B2B (Back to Blackberry)

I have come full circle back to what works. I just bought the Blackberry 8703e on the Verizon network. The reason for the purchase is this: the Palm 700p is half-baked. While I love the tethering feature (the 8703e has it, too), it wasn’t enough to get past the cludgy Palm OS. There are [...]