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by degusta 14y ago
I wrote the underlying article - thanks for catching that I wasn't using 2007/iPhone as the timeline base. The 2002 date was when I was saying smart phones reached general consumer availability, not when the very first one was invented. As
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Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History?(technologyreview.com)
2 points by degusta 14y ago|0 comments
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Mike Daisey's Upcoming Venues All Defend Him(theunderstatement.com)
2 points by degusta 15y ago|0 comments
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Five Problems for Tesla Motors(theunderstatement.com)
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by degusta 15y ago
I wrote the original blog post about Teslas bricking. This IDC/IDG post is embarrassingly wrong about basically everything. The cars are most definitely not "just in need of servicing". Tesla's not even arguing that - I even have a written
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"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem(theunderstatement.com)
542 points by degusta 15y ago|268 comments
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by degusta 15y ago
That's every Samsung phone released in the US through mid-2010. I do intend to keep at it and add more. (& yes, Motorola does appear to be particularly bad)
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by degusta 15y ago
You might be right re it gets better - though not as sure about the ICS bit. It is my intention to keep at it & add (ideally) every phone.
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by degusta 15y ago
I agree they're maybe not essential to a lot of consumers. Lord knows most people never thought about whether their dumbphone's OS was outdated or not, but I do think it's less than ideal for the ecosystem in the long term.
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by degusta 15y ago
Concur. Similarly, general consensus seems to be that the skins actively hold things up because manufacturers have to port them to each new OS on each device. It'll be interesting to see how much life the skins have left in them in the post
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by degusta 15y ago
Unfortunately I suspect you're right.
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by degusta 15y ago
Yes, it's 7 that were "never" and 5 more that were "weeks", so 12 total that were "weeks or less". I struggled with that phrasing a bit - either way seemed wrong.
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by degusta 15y ago
No, the original iPhone & 3G don't support iOS 5. But they did support the current version of iOS for 3 years after they were released - far more than any Android phones of the period. (And, no, they don't charge for iPod Touch updates
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by degusta 15y ago
Very much so - I made a note or two re extension & non-US at the end of the post. Definitely my intention.
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by degusta 15y ago
I actually had letters on there ("E", "F") etc for releases but on top of the sales windows & the support windows it was just too much on one chart. I do plan to provide all that information as a comprehensive list of phones/updates, id
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by degusta 15y ago
I actually originally started doing it that way, but thought it was more relevant vis a vis release date than calendar date. I do intend to include that when I finish doing all of the phones. (Yes, I'm a bit OCD :) ). Google apparently says
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by degusta 15y ago
I wrote the piece / did the research. Happy to answer any questions or comments people might have.
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by degusta 15y ago
(Disclosure: I did the understatement.com piece) I agree with many of the points people are making (there are some differences, there are many Helvetica/etc based fonts, etc). Really the most amusing thing to me is that Google made a big de
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by degusta 15y ago
Haha well said (& well done).
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by degusta 15y ago
Here's an animation/toggle I did comparing Roboto & Helvetica: http://und.st/pqCj4I . In the lowercase, there are only 5 letters (a, e, f, g, k) that a normal person would have much chance of distinguishing, even some of those are subt
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by degusta 15y ago
Indeed. And Susan Wojcicki has also come to life (after only making one public post ever back in August). :)
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by degusta 15y ago
Actually, I agree that might have been a better title - would have avoided some of the controversy while making the same point. (And, fwiw, I don't have any ads or make any money off my blog, nor did I really think the post would catch on t
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by degusta 15y ago
(I'm the author) Actually, I would tend to think that TV execs do watch their reality TV programs & even suspect Zynga execs have at least played a bit of Farmville, and certainly should if it's their company's biggest initiative of the
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by degusta 15y ago
(I'm the author) That's a really good observation re the content of the founders' posts, especially Mr. Brin's.
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by degusta 15y ago
(I'm the author). Your last point is very true, and the chart tries to make it very clear it's only talking about public posts. Obviously entirely true that they could be using it purely privately, but I still think is an observation worth
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by degusta 15y ago
I'm the author and you're right. I hadn't thought of that, I was just thinking in the narrow space of consumer-y services/devices that have a broad target market. Something like "and being intimately familiar with them" would have been much
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by degusta 15y ago
Disclosure: author :) I don't think what a "normal" person has done on Facebook over the past 5 years is a fair comparison. Facebook didn't even have a public "subscribe/follow" concept til last week, whereas Google+ launched with one. Also