How Nokia got Bamboozled by Hollywood:
Point & Find, for instance, was augmented reality before that was a thing, but Nokia put absolutely no effort into making it good until AR was suddenly a buzzword. They turned a two-year lead into a race to catch up. From what I can tell, that’s pretty much what they did with everything else, too.
[Noted for future head shaking at my own business blunders.]
Source: Coyote Tracks
This may have been an interesting experiment in the abstract, worth doing so we could find out what the problems are. We owe our thanks to the potential registrants for showing us so clearly. Now the answer should be an emphatic No. The TLDs we have are fine. There is no shortage of names that this is needed to address. Let’s work on solving problems, not creating new ones.
[I agree that this is quagmire in the making…]
Source: Scripting News
Except, of course, that the vast majority of Windows apps have to be rewritten for the Metro UI first. And then—if there’s any lesson anyone should take away from iOS, it’s this—you have to understand that the user experience, no matter how similar both the developer API and the user interfaces are, is different on the tablet, the phone, and the desktop. There’s a reason that iPad users don’t run iPhone apps on their pads unless there’s no other choice, and that iPhone apps don’t look like iPad apps but just smaller. Microsoft appears to be preaching the write once, run anywhere gospel of virtual machines through time immemorial, and it’s quite possible that they’ve got the virtual machine problem finally solved. That doesn’t mean they have the user experience problem solved.
With that in mind, I present my boldly flavored bowl of claim chowder.
[We’ll see.]
Source: Coyote Tracks
★ Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place:
If I’m right, it’s inevitable now that Microsoft will acquire Nokia.
[Interesting.]
Source: Daring Fireball
“I don’t have a problem with Apple, really”:
You can’t be hipster smug with an Apple product. In 2012, you buy an Android product and unlock the bootloader to be hipster smug, and use phrases like “iSheep” while you pretend that you actually like the taste of PBR.
[Nailed.]
Source: Coyote Tracks
How Apple will turn the Net’s top into TV’s bottom:
These deals will be motivated by a shared sense that Something Must Be Done, and by knowing that Apple will make TV look and work better than anybody else ever could. The carriers have seen this movie before, and they’d rather have a part in it than outside of it. For a view of the latter, witness the fallen giants called Sony and Nokia.
I don’t know anything about Apple’s plans. But I know a lot about Apple, as do most of us. Here are the operative facts as they now stand (or at least as I see them):
[A must read (if you care about content distribution).]
Source: Doc Searls Weblog
But it won’t matter, because with Apple TV, cable content is just an app. What matters is that soon potentially tens of millions of HD capable monitors will become a screen for the hundreds of thousands of apps running on devices that are already in your hands.
[Jeremy Allaire priced plenty of reason and detail, but the truth is what else could it be? Dive into the morass that is networks and related contracts? I can’t imagine…]
On Buying Direct or Via Mac App Store:
I have to admit that I remain worried about sandboxing. I find myself discarding good ideas for apps just because of sandboxing rules. That can’t be a good thing for the platform.
And so I take a wait-and-see approach — don’t start any new Mac apps. Which also can’t be good.
[This is becoming a mess for this very reason.]
Source: inessential.com
New York Times: So Much for Sharing His ‘Like’:
On Valentine’s Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of … personal lubricant.
So he liked it on Facebook, and his like turned into an ad.
[For me, the Facebook deal gets worse every day.]
Source: inessential.com
Apple Is Doomed: The Phony Sony Parallel:
This isn’t to say that Apple can’t be contaminated by the toxicity of success, or that the spots of mediocrity we can discern here and there (and that were present when Steve was around) won’t metastasize into full blown “bozo cancer”. But for those interested in company cultures, the more interesting set of questions starts with how Apple will “Think Different” from now on. Jobs was adamant: His successors had to think for themselves, they were told to find their own true paths as opposed to aping his.
From a distance, it appears that Tim Cook isn’t at all trying to be Jobs 2.0. But to call his approach “legal/bureaucratic” (in the Weber sense), as Colony does, is facile and misplaced.
[Interesting analysis. Loving “bozo cancer” though. That’s a useful term of disdain.]
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