Open Letter To Steve Jobs Concerning The HTC Lawsuits
Wil Shipley:
Enforcing patents is wrong. You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse? Whether an idea was patented doesn’t change the morality of copying it, it only changes the ability to sue.
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I always [...]
Android Market Finally Shows Updates To Your Apps
Until now (which is a while) you haven’t had any easy way to find updates to apps you’ve installed on your Android phone. You had to enter the market and search for a particular app to see if an update was available. Since just a few days ago, you can now simply click the “Downloads” [...]
Quick Thoughts On Windows Phone 7
Windows just announced Windows Phone 7 (previously known as Windows Mobile 7). Here’s a video, and after that, some thoughts on the offering.
Musings:
I like how the lock screen is not a slider, but a “cover” you slide upwards.
I’m noticing the Internet Explorer icon, and thinking to myself: Why not rebrand Internet Explorer Mobile as simply [...]
jQTouch Is For iPhone-Like Web-Apps
Storing this here for my own posterity as much as yours, jQTouch is a nice jQuery addon which gives you access to doing some very nice mobile-apps effects right in your HTML webpage. Combine it with this nice iPhone PSD template, and your CV just got a little meatier.
Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons.
There are four buttons1:
Back
Context menu
Home
Search
While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. When in the browser, “back” goes [...]
A Few Notes On Google Android And “Multitouch”
The word “multitouch” is thrown around a lot these days. Mostly by people who should know better.
Multitouch means you can touch the screen with multiple fingers, and the system will register this as, yes, multiple fingers. Google Android does support this, has supported this for a while, and most Android phones have the hardware that [...]
Everybody Expects Phone, Google Announces URL
Yesterdays big Google announcement wasn’t the Nexus One phone as everybody expected. As it turns out, the Nexus One is just the first in a batch of really good phones. The big announcement was the URL to an official Google store: google.com/phone. Where we will be buying Google phones no doubt.