Category Archives: Mobile devices

Google Chrome

By take21 | Published: September 2, 2008

Google has launched a browser: Google Chrome. Nice documentation. It’s a browser, but it is also a platform for web applications. Uses Webkit (like Safari). Open Source. Maybe you would like to write a blog entry about it. Everyone else will. Update: BBC coverage with a video clip in which Google’s Jessica Powell demonstrates the […]

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Launchpad chicken: Jean Louis Gassée on Mobile Me

By take21 | Published: August 15, 2008

Insight from Jean Louis Gassée.  “Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. So goes one of the many proverbs of our computer lore. As Apple found out last month with the MobileMe launch misfires, the lofty promise of “Exchange for the rest of us” translated into a user experience that was neither simple […]

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App Store sales: $30m in first month

By take21 | Published: August 11, 2008

Interview with Steve Jobs in the Wall Street Journal Sales of apps for the iPhone at $1m a day produced $21m for developers. “If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store, Mr. Jobs said. “This thing’s going to crest […]

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Mobile Blues

By take21 | Published: August 6, 2008

Tim Bray works for Sun Microsystems. He is an influential blogger, takes photographs, writes essay length pieces. Now, you know about iPhone, a bit about Google’s Android, which is an SDK without hardware and we’ve mentioned open source contender Open Moko. You know Apple’s environment is closed source. Actually, let’s say Apple’s culture is closed […]

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Mobile video: HD cameras

By take21 | Published: August 6, 2008

This blog does not, of course, carry out product reviews or recommend any products. But I know you want to read about new kit. So I’ll link to some product reviews, whilst making broad cultural assertions about the future of mobile devices. Starting with David Pogue in the New York Times reviewing the Flip, a […]

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5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

From the Free Software Foundation The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones. iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology. iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways […]

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‘usability trainwreck’

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

Video comparing usability of the Open Moko mobile phone operating system with the iPhone. Unfavourably. Comments point out that it will get better. True, and Open Source success stories like Firefox took a long time before achieving stability and widespread adoption. Question is, how long are you prepared to wait? Open Moko usability trainwreck More […]

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‘usability trainwreck’

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

Video comparing usability of the Open Moko mobile phone operating system with the iPhone. Unfavourably. Comments point out that it will get better. True, and Open Source success stories like Firefox took a long time before achieving stability and widespread adoption. Question is, how long are you prepared to wait? Open Moko usability trainwreck More […]

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