The great experiment is about comparing, from a usability and reliability perspective, another SmartPhone OS against iOS, which I’ve been using since the second iPhone was released (and thereby officially released into Australia). The mission statement I established was: To try, for a full contract period (24 months), a smartphone …
Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber has a post, “On the behavior of the iPhone mute switch“. This article arose from the well reported case recently of a conductor halting a performance because he was (justifiably) disturbed by incessant iPhone ringing. John reported that the owner of the iPhone hadn’t …
I actually quite like Fairfax, generally. They’re somewhat left-wing in their outlook, and as such represent added balance in an oft-times boganised Australian media landscape. However, when it comes to consumer tech stories, I honestly wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. For years, they’ve beaten a big …
Darren and I both got our iPads on May 28, and I’ve been asked by a friend to give a review of what I think of the iPad now. In the past I’ve said that it’s effectively a new computing platform paradigm – neither desktop nor smartphone, but somewhere inbetween. …
This could almost be nominally a follow-up to a post I made ages ago, “The walled garden vs the overrun garden“. You’ll probably want to read that first. Now that Android has been out for a while, I wanted to reflect on how fragmented the Android platform has become, and …
Quick, have a look at this snapshot of Apple’s i* product range: Go from left to right, and you’ve got the following products: iPad iPhone iPod shuffle iPod nano iPod touch iPod classic There isn’t however an “iTouch”. Guess what? Whenever I hear someone talk about “iTouch”, I’m not hearing …
If you’re not familiar with cargo cults, you might want to read up on them. To summarise though, they sprang up around the Pacific Islands in particular, and mainly had their roots in villagers noticing behaviours associated with more advanced societies using islands for staging and delivery of goods, then …
Having been excessively tired of Vodafone and their feculent network on the Central Coast, when it was time for the iPhone 4 to be released in Australia, I was in line for two reasons. First, I wanted to update from an iPhone 3G, but perhaps more importantly, I wanted to …
I personally can’t wait to test out the much touted reception issues with the iPhone 4. You probably think I’m crazy, but actually, I’m perfectly lucid for one clear reason: in order to do that, I’ll have waved goodbye to Vodafone, since I’ll be shifting carriers when I get an …
One of the common criticisms of Apple is that their processes and control regarding the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad products is that they create a “walled garden”. I disagree with the “walled garden” criticism when we consider unfettered net access is available from the phone – you can’t get …
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