9to5mac has a bunch of photos and a full rundown of the supposed new iPhone. Obviously no confirmation if its real or not, but it lines up with the most reliable rumors so far.
The Cliff Notes:
-4” screen - good
-Same width as current iPhone 4/4s - good
-Headphone jack to bottom - who cares
-Smaller dock connector - probably good
-Aluminum unibody design - very good
All in all good changes. The screen size has been rumored for over a year, and at this point seems like it would be a welcome change by most. The only concern over the smaller dock connector would be apple moving to WiFi syncing only, but that seems extremely unlikely. The aluminum unibody would be lighter and stronger, plus the back wouldn’t shatter every time the phone is dropped. I disliked the look of the back at first, but it is growing on me. The multi-toned black and whites on the back look a bit strange though.
We probably won’t see new iPhones until the fall, and a lot can change before then and now, but if this is fake it may not be too far off from the finished product.
Source: 9to5mac.com
(via Millennial: Tablets Now Account For 20% Of Mobile Ad Impressions)
I always find these lists interesting on a subliminal level. They’ll differentiate between a Samsung Galaxy S and an Epic Galaxy S, but with Apple, the iPhones 1, 2, 3, 3gs, 4 and 4s or whatever, are all lumped together? Why?
I suspect it’s simply subconscious thought about how all the iPhones basically all work the same and you can code (more or less) the same on them? Why else?
I think Apple actively encourages this mindset. With the obvious exception of the iPod, Apple has one instance of each thing. They don’t release “a new phone,” they release “the new iPhone.” The new MacBook Air. The new iMac.
Putting the most cynical spin on it, this suggests that your iPhone 3GS isn’t a different model, it’s just an old phone. And perhaps you should think about buying a new one.
From a more positive marketing perspective, I think that Apple took the lesson of the Quadra/Centris/Performa era very seriously, and goes far out of its way to keep its product lines simple and make sure that they’re presented as such.
(via dpstyles)
Source: thenextweb.com
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.
Source: theblindgiant
via TechCrunch:
Google got the chance to buy Twitter, but the search giant passed, says Michael Arrington. “Google hasn’t been interested in buying Twitter since they committed themselves to Google+” says Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures founder and former Twitter board member, in his fireside chat this morning with Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York conference. Now Google+ is widely seen as a ghost town, and not buying Twitter could be a mistake that haunts Mountain View for years to come.
Dodged a major bullet there.
Twitter users, not Google. Google fucked up.
Source: TechCrunch
From Aaron Sorkin’s commencement address at Syracuse University (via kottke.org):
Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Truth.
Source: kottke.org
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Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen on AMC’s digital distribution strategy (via PaidContent):
“One of the things that programmers have done is they’ve devalued their programming content by making it available in multiple outlets,” Ergen said. “Our customers are not really saying ‘we want to pay more money,’ they’re saying ‘we want more flexibility in our programming and we don’t want to pay more.’
“From a timing perspective that is just a contract that we can change,” Ergen added. “We believe the product has been devalued, not that there are not some good programs, but it’s been devalued because you can get it multiple ways and customers have more flexibility to get the programming. It’s not quite the same as if something were exclusive.”
You know how I started watching Mad Men? Netflix. How I caught up with the current season? iTunes. How I watch it now? Live TV. Sure seems like they added a viewer (and therefore, value) by making it widely available.
Oh and if it wasn’t available through those outlets? Probably piracy.
It really doesn’t seem like cable providers will ever get it.
Source: paidcontent.org
via The Verge:
Numbers for Facebook’s mobile service have already proved that it’s popular, but new reports from comScore show that people are actually spending more time on mobile devices than on the desktop site, at least in the US. According to the Mobile Metrix 2.0 report released yesterday, people who use the mobile app or site spent an average of 441 minutes (about 7 hours and 20 minutes) using it in the month of March. By contrast, US users who accessed it from a computer spent 391 minutes (about 6 hours and 30 minutes) on Facebook.
Part of me is surprised, since Facebook’s mobile app is such a poor experience to use. But I guess high school girls need something to do on their phones when they arn’t texting one another.
Oh, also growth of mobile and whatnot.
Source: theverge.com
Paul Miller from The Verge is quitting the internet:
In my wild fantasies, leaving the internet will make me better with my time, vastly more creative, a better friend, a better son and brother… a better Paul. In reality, I’ll still be the same person, just with a huge professional and personal handicap. The things I’ll miss most, like playing StarCraft with my friend from high school who lives in another state, or sharing Rdio and long read links with a co-worker at the next desk over, I hope to replace with more direct interactions, and more “meaningful” activities - whatever that means. The worst case scenario is that a year from now I’ll be found wandering in the woods somewhere, muttering URLs to myself.
It has a bit of a ‘bazooka to kill a bee’ feel to it. It seems that much of what he claims to be trying to achieve could be done with a bit of focus and self-control, but I suspect he is doing it as an interesting conversation point as much as anything. It’ll be an interesting experiment, at the very least.
Source: theverge.com
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