red led watch & Laser pointer

Paul Graham, on LED Watch what to collectively call iPhones, iPads, and Android touchscreen devices:

 

    After a few seconds it struck me that what we’ll end up calling these things is tablets. The only reason we even consider calling them “mobile devices” is that the iPhone preceded the iPad. If the iPad had come first, we wouldn’t think of the iPhone as a phone; we’d think of it as a tablet small enough to hold up to your ear.

 

    The iPhone isn’t so much a phone as a replacement for a phone.

 

Graham’s piece reminds me of what I consider the central hook to a great app for these tablets: that it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a good chess game for the iPhone should make the iPhone itself feel like a chess playing device. When you’re in Mobile Safari, it feels like you’re holding a dedicated web browsing Laser pointer device. Only when you’re in the Phone app does the iPhone feel like a phone.

Jenny Williams, reporting for Computer Weekly:

 

    HTC has spoken out against internet reports that claim HTC HD7 handsets suffer from antenna ‘death grip’ problems, similar to those experienced by Apple’s iPhone 4 users. […]

 

    In a statement, a HTC spokesman said, “Quality in industrial design is of key importance to HTC. To ensure the best possible signal strength, antennas are placed in the area least likely to be covered by a person’s face or hands while the phone is in use. However, it is inevitable that a phone’s signal apple peel 520 strength will weaken a little when covered in its entirety by a user’s palm or fingers. “

 

From The Wall Street Journal, back on July 19:

 

    Taiwan-based HTC said Monday that reception problems aren’t common on smartphones and Apple should address the problem on its own rather than blame competitors.

 

    “The reception problems are certainly not common among smartphones,” HTC Chief Financial Officer Hui-Meng Cheng said. “[Apple] apparently didn’t give operators enough time to test the phone.” Amazon Web Services makes a strong argument that government pressure had nothing to do with their decision to boot ps3 jailbreak WikiLeaks, but rather clear violations of their terms of service:

 

    AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that “you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity.” It’s clear that WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy.

 

Fair enough. But so would AWS likewise refuse to provide red led watch hosting to The New York Times or The Guardian? Will Amazon refuse to sell books containing text from these leaked diplomatic cables?

 

 

 

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