“What phone should I get?” that’s a question I get quite a bit. For those that don’t know, I make apps for the iPhone as my day job and my main phone is the Motorola Droid on Verizon. So here is the answer I give- What provider do you use? Do you like them? Personally […]
OK, the app store has over 130,000 apps and the retention rate of users is pretty bad. So what kind of app should go on the iPhone? I am going to separate apps into three categories – games, useful apps, and novelty. There was a time when you could make a novelty app like iFart […]
That’s a comparison of touchscreens of various smart phones. It’s pretty obvious that the iPhone has the best touchscreen. The full results are at http://labs.moto.com/ and they say that to get it right, gadget-makers have to assemble a variety of critical elements — screen hardware, software algorithms, sensor tuning, and user-interface design, to name but […]
What do you need to have a successful platform? One of the things is good quality applications. That has been true since the early days of Windows and Mac OS. Without Word and Excel, Lotus, and some other key programs, the Windows platform would not have taken off. Same thing goes for Mac OS in […]
I gave my Droid to a couple of people and they have not been able to figure out how to unlock it. Turns out Google can make bad UI designs like the rest of us. Now, I’m no expert on user interfaces, but I did just finish reading “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald […]
I had lunch with a co-worker today, and he wanted some tasty pastries from this restaurant Au Bon Pain. The problem was we didn’t know where there was one near us. Luckily he has an iPhone and I have my brand spanking new DROID. So we decided to see which device can direct us to […]
One of the websites I frequent is Yahoo! Finance. You can use Bloomberg or Reuters or a handful of other ones, but I find Yahoo! to be the most convenient. One of the things I like about it is the news feed right in the middle. I was wondering the other day what I would […]
I’m new in the blogging scene, so I might be a little slow at first with giving my predictions. But I have been saying for months that there will be a new iPhone coming out at WWDC, and it will of course come out of Steve Job’s front pocket. So what’s going to be new […]
I’m an iPhone developer and I don’t have an iPhone. I use 2nd gen iPod touch(running iPhone OS, 3.0) and it gets the job done. A lot of times people ask why I don’t have an iPhone and my answer is ” I’ll get an iPhone when it comes out on Verizon, around 2011/2012″. There […]
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