“If the iPhone didn’t exist, I would have the Nexus One in my pocket right now—but then again, if the iPhone didn’t exist, the Nexus One wouldn’t either.”
He talks about how a Nexus One is good for folks that like to tinker, tweak, and modify their devices, but warns that it comes at a significant cost to its usability. If you want something that just works (and you don’t want to hack it “within an inch of its life”) then iPhone is the one for you.
[via Marco]
Now Available in the iTunes App Store!! I’m very excited about this! Never created an iPhone App before, and this was a great experience. Here’s a bit about the new app. If you try it out, please do let me know how it goes!
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Do you ever wonder whether you’d be better off walking instead of taking the bus? This app will help you answer that question.
Fine tune your personal walking speed and your city’s bus speed for the most accurate Walk or Bus recommendation.
Measure by kilometers, miles, or by configurable city block sizes Receive helpful feedback: “at a brisk pace you will get there 4 minutes faster than the bus”
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Ideation: Chris Mueller & Dana Boyd
Graphics: Trevor Brown
Coding: Peter Edstrom
Contact: walkorbus@edstrom.net
Twitter: @walkorbus
OK, it’s only been a few hours after the iPad announcement. Here’s what I’ll say as a first reaction:
No camera? How will we do video chat?
Good entry price point of $499, but I’m irritated that I can’t use my $30/month iPhone internet on this thing. You want me to pay for internet per device? Seriously? Where is the Kindle internet model where it comes with free internet for life?
I can totally see myself sitting down to read a nice long book with the iBooks app. But I’m still skeptical I’ll buy many books this way — $15 for a new book, and no re-sell or lending capability? I don’t mind that with music, but I rarely read books more than once and want to be able to pass the book on when I’m done.
I feel bad for Kindle owners. Given the attention this thing is getting, the screen-looks-like-paper feature was an overrated (but necessary?) step to advance the art of eBooks. Sorry Amazon. Thanks for your efforts. Good luck with your ePaper initiatives – the rest of us will be happy with color alternatives.
The new apps look amazing. Especially the calendar program. And the iWorks apps. Can’t wait to try them out.
Interesting that Apple made their own “Apple A4” chip instead of putting an Intel chip into the device. I wonder what this means for the future of other Apple devices.
Oh yea, and the iPad name is horrible. Please Apple, please. Give up on the iEverything name. The original iMac was what? 1998? This is a tired, dull, and not-what-we-expect-from-a-leading-company-like-yourself name. Canvas would have been so much better. Or Slate. Or just “Apple Tablet”. iPad? iPad?!?
An amazing app for your iPhone: Dragon Dictation. Go check it out. It does just what you think it does: listen to you talk, and translate that to type. Click a button and you can send it as an email. As Daring Fireball notes: “it’s both faster and more accurate than I imagined possible.”
I’m an Apple fanboy to be sure, but what exactly can’t the iPhone do?
There have been plenty of articles written about Google’s Nexus One. This offhanded comment from the Macalope pretty much sums up my feelings:
“The Nexus One seems like a nice enough phone, but it’s nothing revolutionary (it’s got a trackball, for God’s sake). Everyone is still operating inside the same box that Apple defined three years ago.”
On one hand, I’m glad to see some competition for Apple. But I don’t know that most consumers can see what’s happening: Google is playing the Microsoft game. Copy Apple as closely as possible and as quickly as possible. Android will always be a second-rate smartphone (or super-smartphone).
Google’s Android phone operating system will rearrange the icons, change the colors, and maybe even do a couple unexpected things. But the genius at Apple is already working on the next big thing – not trying to copy their competitors.
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