By the end of the year, there will be somewhere around 1.5 million people walking around with the ability to shoot video this good (and upload it on the spot) at all times. Good luck, privacy. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Read moreLet the pre-ordering begin!
Read more4. Want. Mucho.
Read moreAdobe tries killing them with kindness.
Read moreVideo: 4th-Gen iPhone ‘Found’ in Vietnam, Contains A4 iPad Chip
Video: 4th-Gen iPhone ‘Found’ in Vietnam, Contains A4 iPad Chip
If Apple hadn’t gone all Gestapo on Gizmodo, they totally could have played off these iPhone leaks around the world as some sort of Cloverfield-style global ARG/viral product release. It could have ushered in a new era of Apple product marketing.
If only they hadn’t started kicking down doors.
Ian Bogost: Flash is not a Right
Ian Bogost: Flash is not a Right
If you care at all about the whole iPhone/Flash kerfuffle, you have to read the whole thing; but I can’t help but jump to the end here, because its one of those great “that’s what I’ve been trying to say” moments for me:
The computational ecosystem is burgeoning. We have more platforms today than ever before, from mobile devices to microcomputers to game consoles to specialized embedded systems. Yet, a prevailing attitude about making computational creativity longs for uniformity: game engines that target multiple platforms to produce the same plain-vanilla experience, authoring tools that export to every popular device at the lowest common denominator; and, of course, the tyranny of the web, where everything that once worked well on a particular platform is remade to work poorly everywhere.
It is a kind of computational extirpation, where everything unique is crippled or cleansed in order to service a perverted belief in universality. I consider it a kind of jingoism, and I hope we can outgrow or destroy it.
You asked for iPhone alternatives: the Incredible from HTC, running Google’s Android OS 2.1, is being called the best smartphone not created in Cupertino that you can get in the U.S. Factor in that it’s a Verizon phone, and you might actually – gasp – like it more than an iPhone. (At least until that […]
Read moreTYPEPONG: If Tobias Frere-Jones were Atari’s creative director back in 1972, the world’s most popular 2-dimensional tennis game might have looked a little something like this. Watch the Trailer | Download TypePong for iPhone [via Swiss Legacy] (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Read moreI heard this is the guy who got his hands on the iPhone 4G. He’s a master of disguise.
Read moreWhat do you think – is this really the iPhone 4G, found at a Redwood City bar? If so, somebody at Apple got so fired today that Apple had to expedite their re-hiring just so they could be fired again.
Read moreOooh, why hello there Roambi. (Thanks to Andres for the link.)
Read moreTwitter Devours Tweetie
The best Twitter iPhone app is now the official Twitter iPhone app. Let’s just hope that all the developers of the OTHER Twitter iPhone apps come back from the night of heavy drinking that followed the news and keep working on their apps. There’s still plenty of room for improvement on the mobile status front, far too much to cede to one development team.
