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  John Gruber is wrong: for some customers, email is more important than the web

  http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/05/john-gruber-is-wrong-for-...
  6 days ago in Technovia · Authority: 99

  John Gruber has posted a really interesting and insightful piece on BlackBerry vs. iPhone, and why he thinks that RIM is, fundamentally, in a very very bad place indeed. However, theres one point that I have to disagree with John on: In broad terms,
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  Competing With Themselves

  http://brainrow.com/2008/05/15/competing-with-themselves.htm...
  11 hours ago in brainrow · Authority: 3

  John Gruber makes an interesting point about Apple: Apple doesn’t wait for someone else to knock one of their hit products off its throne or slowly run it into the ground (cf. the Motorola Razr) — they do it themselves. For six years pundits have been declaring that competitors would “soon” catch up to the iPod, but the iPod has never been a static target — over the same six years Apple has released significant new iPods every year. But it is frustrating, buying the latest best-of-breed product in order to have bragging rights over all the poor saps who don’t have the latest, coolest thing, and then seeing it made less cool when the same company releases something even cooler only a few months later.
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  Blackberry vs iPhone

  http://paquesepas.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/blackberry-vs-iph...
  1 day ago in PaQueSepas · Authority: 8

  Buen artículo del Sr. John Gruber discutiendo varios puntos de la batalla Mora Negra vs. yoTeléfono. Incluso remarca la estrategia de Apple de ir contra RIM en vez de contra Nokia o… qué otros teléfonos hay? To understand why Apple is making a concerted effort to appeal to BlackBerry users, consider an analogy to the board game Risk. RIM has a large army (read: users), but they’re all massed together in one spot on the map. They care about email, they care about exactly the sort of enterprise features Apple has announced for the iPhone, and they are known to be willing to pay several hundred dollars for a handset. A lucrative target that can be attacked all at once. And the BlackBerry is weakest where the iPhone is strongest: web browsing, music, and video. Compare and contrast with, say, a software platform like Windows Mobile, or a hardware maker like Nokia — their users are spread across a wide variety of phones and platforms. It was far easier to turn the iPhone into something almost every BlackBerry customer might at least consider than it would have been to make a lineup of iPhones that appeal to every Nokia customer. RIM doesn’t really have any lock-in other than user habits. The BlackBerry gimmick is that it works with the email system your company bought from Microsoft. Replace a BlackBerry with an iPhone (2.0) and the messages, contacts, and calendar events that sync over the network will be the same as the ones on the BlackBerry you just tossed into a desk drawer. In broad terms, BlackBerrys are optimized first for email; the iPhone for the web. What’s more important, an email client or a web browser? For most people, and perhaps even most current BlackBerry users, the answer is clearly the web. …the iPhone can do more BlackBerry-ish things than the BlackBerry can do iPhone-ish things. Un punto que se me olvidó comentar en el otro post es que todo se reduce a satisfacción del usuario. Para lograr esa satisfacción las empresas tratan de ofrecer ciertas características en sus productos que ellos creen que los usuarios necesitan. Como decía en mi comentario del post, yo tengo un Nokia N80. Tiene mucha más funcionalidad que el iPhone: mejor cámara, graba video, 3G, infrarrojo, fax, lo puedo usar como módem etc. Sin embargo, como comenté, es irritante usar el teléfono. Hay veces que me dan ganas de arrojarlo contra la pared. Es tan irritante para mí usarlo que rara vez utilizo esa funcionalidad extra. Me la pienso para navegar en el internet con él por el proceso tan complicado que tiene para hacer algo tan sencillo como navegar y visualizar páginas. Creo que en esta cuestión de usabilidad y satisfacción el iPhone es muy superior a la Blackberry y ya no digamos a Nokia. Y no lo digo solamente yo, sino también esta encuesta donde el iPhone tuvo la mejor satisfacción de usuario “corporate”, incluso antes de que se anunciara toda la parafernalia empresarial para el iPhone. Por qué no tengo un iphone aún? Porque para mí es importante que tenga ciertas características como que sea 3G y tenga más memoria (quiero reemplazar mi iPod cuarta generación). Características que probablemente serán cubiertas en el mes de Junio.
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  Se l’iPhone fosse un computer...

  http://applemania.blogosfere.it/2008/05/se-liphone-fosse-un-...
  1 day ago in Applemania · Authority: 93

  ... Sarebbe un PowerBook G3. Modello "Pismo". L'iPhone è un telefono cellulare, certo. Ma è anche un computer. E su di lui gira una versione modificata di OS X. E anche se Apple non ha mai diffuso le specifiche tecniche della CPU dell'iPhone, qualche hacker si è dato da fare. Craig Hockenberry, titolare di questo blog tecnico, ha fatto la dissezione di un iPhone. Risultato: il processore dell'iPhone è un ARM che gira a 400 MHz con una velocità di bus di 100 MHz e ha 128 MB di RAM. Noi tutti sappiamo (dovremmo sapere) che i MHz non sono un'unità di misura in grado di confrontare processori con architetture diverse. Però, con un po' di beneficio d'inventario, se andiamo a guardare i Mac storici e cerchiamo un modello con un processore confrontabile, troviamo quello che all'epoca era un signor portatile: il PowerBook G3 "Pismo" (febbraio 2000): processore PowerPC a 400 MHz, bus a 100 MHz, 64 MB di RAM. Persino la capienza del disco è confrontabile: il Pismo era venduto con hard disk da 6, 12 o 18 GB. Se ci si pensa, fa effetto: in otto anni, le specifiche tecniche del portatile di punta Apple sono diventate quelle di un telefonino... Commentando queste scoperte, John Gruber di Daring Fireball fa delle interessanti considerazioni. Il confronto è reso difficile dal fatto che le due macchine non hanno molto software in comune. Non si può fare una prova confrontando le prestazioni con Photoshop o rippando CD con iTunes, perché l'iPhone non supporta questi programmi. Una delle poche applicazioni in comune è il Web browsing. Chi ha un po' di anni di informatica alle spalle, ricorderà che all'epoca caricare pagine Web un po' complesse in un browser era un'operazione che richiedeva del tempo; oggi siamo abituati a ben altre velocità. Questo significa che, se si parla di prestazioni Web, l'iPhone è rallentato non solo da EDGE. Il che significa che anche i tanto attesi iPhone 3G saranno lenti, nel browsing Web. Gli utenti di iPhone che usano intensamente il Wi-Fi, insomma, più che nella tecnologia 3G dovrebbero confidare in processori più veloci. Ma questo significa anche che fra qualche anno un iPhone avrà al suo interno la potenza di calcolo di un MacBook Pro del 2008... Leggi i commenti (1) »
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  Superman or Spiderman…Apple or Blackberry?

  http://howardlindzon.com/?p=3579
  2 days ago in Howard Lindzon · Authority: 317

  Before you chime in with…What about Google and Android, shut your holes. Chill for a moment and just ponder: Could Mike Tyson beat Drago (Rocky 4)? We all grew up with the if so and so fought so and soDaring Fireball’s John Gruber writes is this most excellent post . John says the ‘Crackheads’ at RIMM are screwed: To understand why Apple is making a concerted effort to appeal to BlackBerry users, consider an analogy to the board game Risk. RIM has a large army (read: users), but they’re all massed together in one spot on the map. They care about email, they care about exactly the sort of enterprise features Apple has announced for the iPhone, and they are known to be willing to pay several hundred dollars for a handset. A lucrative target that can be attacked all at once. And the BlackBerry is weakest where the iPhone is strongest: web browsing, music, and video. Compare and contrast with, say, a software platform like Windows Mobile, or a hardware maker like Nokia — their users are spread across a wide variety of phones and platforms. It was far easier to turn the iPhone into something almost every BlackBerry customer might at least consider than it would have been to make a lineup of iPhones that appeal to every Nokia customer. RIM doesn’t really have any lock-in other than user habits. The BlackBerry gimmick is that it works with the email system your company bought from Microsoft. Replace a BlackBerry with an iPhone (2.0) and the messages, contacts, and calendar events that sync over the network will be the same as the ones on the BlackBerry you just tossed into a desk drawer. In broad terms, BlackBerrys are optimized first for email; the iPhone for the web. What’s more important, an email client or a web browser? For most people, and perhaps even most current BlackBerry users, the answer is clearly the web. John - You had my attention at ‘RISK’. The great post won’t make you money tomorrow or even next week, but over time, bazillions are at stake. So who really will be the long term winner? Place your bets…and yes…Google wins either way .
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  Not your father's phone

  http://mystonetablet.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-6-year-old-daug...
  2 days ago in StoneTablet · Authority: 1

  My 6-year-old daughter was practicing lines for a play she will be in, and one line was “Radio was at the peak of popularity in that day.” I tried to help her understand what that meant, and asked her if people listen to the radio today. She said “yes”. I asked what was more popular than radio – expecting to hear “TV”. Instead, she said “computer”. John Gruber estimates that today’s iPhone is about as powerful as an 8 year-old computer. When my daughter is 14, and needs her own cell phone and computer, they might be the same thing - or at least the thing she carries in her pocket will be as powerful as what I have on my desk today. It would never occur to me to go to a physical dictionary or phone book to look something up, and I rarely look at a paper map. She will have a device in her pocket with a processor fast enough to edit video, over 100GB of storage capacity, and a full-time, high-speed Internet connection to a much improved world-wide network filled with applications (that run in the web – not on her phone) designed from the ground up for mobile use. If current trends are any indication, she will know where her friends are, what they are doing, and if they are available to talk or meet. She will always know where she is – and not in a “here is your address” kind of way; she is likely to have at her fingertips the intimate knowledge normally reserved for a native of her immediate surroundings – even if this is the first time she has been there. How far to the nearest bathroom, coffee shop, power outlet? Is the subway running on time, or should I just (electronically) summon a cab? What is the trade-off in time and cost of those two choices? Maybe her phone will slurp down the menu and interior and exterior pictures of every restaurant or café she walks past on a street, just in case she wants to come back and try one later. If she sees a cute boy in Starbucks, her social network system will figure out if they have any friends in common – and maybe get them an on-line introduction right away. Speaking of Starbucks, she probably won’t have to order with a live person. When she walks in, Starbucks will recognize her phone, look up her typical order, and ask her phone if she wants one of her recent drinks, or maybe today’s special. She can just confirm what she wants, the phone will pay the bill, and maybe buzz her when it is ready. For the older generation, this stuff will feel like a gizmo to figure out. For her it will feel like an automatic transmission – learning to do things the manual way will seem hard.
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  NEW NET Issues List for 13 May 2008

  http://mydigitechnician.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-net-issues-...
  2 days ago in myDigitechnician · Authority: 3

  NEW NET will meet on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, at the Cambria Suites Hotel on the north side of Appleton. Cambria has free wireless, food and beverages. Below is the final list of issues for this week's NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering at Cambria Suites Hotel, 3940 N. Gateway Drive, Appleton Wisconsin, USA. The ‘net Real Estate Lists Grow Comfortable With the Web http://tinyurl.com/6evmgf (NY Times)It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay http://tinyurl.com/55hprp (Consumerist)15 Websites / Services I’d Actually Pay For http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/08/15-websites-services-id-actually-pay-for/Five tools everyone working online should have http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_tools_everyone_working_on.phpYahoo.com Sends a Ton of Talkative Traffic http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_buzz_talkative_traffic.phpOnce shunned, Wikipedia now a teaching tool http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/tc_afp/canadascienceinternetThe long goodbye to the browser http://weblog.infoworld.com/editor/archives/2008/05/web_browser_app.htmlWhy Yelp Works http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/why-yelp-works/EarthLink to pull the plug on Wi-Fi in Philadelphia http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5haSn0o7V8Gy5ZNM2Glw_sOwsshvgD90KVOD80 Security, Privacy & Digital Controls Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3795Alluring MP3s, movies hit LimeWire, install malware instead http://tinyurl.com/49ublt (Ars technica)'Mebroot' proves to be a tough rootkit to crack http://tinyurl.com/65qwhz (InfoWorld)Security industry’s 7 dirty secrets http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/01/7-dirty-secrets-of-the-security-industry_1.htmlThoughts of a Teenage Bot Master http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11517Click Crime http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/471 Mobile Computing & Communicating Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/09/sneak-peak-at-android-apps-out-of-mit/BlackBerry vs. iPhone http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/blackberry_vs_iphoneMusic industry hopes upgrades boost mobile sector http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/tc_nm/mobile_dcPaper is passe for tech-savvy South Koreans http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/tc_nm/korea_coupons_life_dcEye-Fi Adds Geotagging And Hotspot Support http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2304042,00.asp Open Source Audacity Tutorial part 1 – Recording audio tracks http://linux-audio.net/articles.php?id=25002Wine 1.0 rc1 available http://www.winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc1Hardy Heron converts an Ubuntu skeptic http://www.linux.com/feature/134672Red Hat lives on the edge with Fedora 9 http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9942865-39.html http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7497650845.htmlTop 7 Wireless Apps for Linux http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8124 SkyNet Google, Sprint, Cable Companies Join Forces On Wireless Internet Initiative http://searchengineland.com/080507-074758.phpGoogle to launch Friend Connect for the social Web http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9941039-80.htmlWhere does Google go next? http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/09/technology/where_does_google_go.fortune/Google Hands Out $1.25 Million To 50 Android App Winners http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/android_winners_are_in_goog_Wikipedia Added to Google Maps http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/05/wikipedia-added-to-google-maps.html General Technology Early adopters spend more time with Microsoft than Google, Facebook, or Skype http://tinyurl.com/6do68f (TechCrunch)Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain http://tinyurl.com/4e9qjx (Information Week)Toshiba to use Cell processor in future notebook http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9940771-64.html?tag=blog.promosWhy AMD Went the Multi-Chip Module Route http://tinyurl.com/5dsfzp (InternetNews)Why is Yahoo so afraid of Microsoft? http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080509_004880.htmlTeaching Kids Computer Skills and Programming http://tinyurl.com/3qqp8g (Torkington) http://scratch.mit.edu/aboutMS Office for the Mac: Microsoft listens to its users http://www.macworld.com/article/133398/2008/05/griffiths_vba_office.htmlBest Computing Solutions: Windows vs. Linux - Part I http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2774 Leisure & Entertainment EA launches Steven Spielberg's 'Boom Blox' http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9937525-52.html?tag=nefd.topGore Verbinski to direct 'Bioshock' http://www.variety.com/VR1117985365.htmlThere might be gold for techies in Tinseltown http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9941307-7.htmlGiant Missile Command: The Best Use of Multitouch to Date http://gizmodo.com/389739/giant-missle-command-the-best-use-of-multitouch-to-dateDell Tries to Revive Its Game PCs http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121063491209086661.html?mod=googlenews_wsjNexuiz shoots to the top of free FPS gaming list http://www.linux.com/feature/133830Dell Quashes U.S. XPS Game PCs, Focuses on Alienware http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006949.html Economy and Technology As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where the Next Microsoft? http://tinyurl.com/5d29te (Information Week)Circuit City gives up the fight http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9940588-7.html11 Biz Dev 1.0 Tips http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/11_biz_dev_10_tips.php#moreHP to buy EDS for $13.9 billion to compete with IBM http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9244444 Civilian Aerospace Bootstrapping the Moon http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1287Station Astronaut on 'Colbert Report' http://www.space.com/entertainment/080508-expedition17-reisman-colbert.html http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?episodeId=167538Private Space Station Hits Orbital Milestone http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080509-bigelow-genesis1-milestone.htmlAstronauts help generate enthusiasm for Spaceport http://tinyurl.com/68znnq (Sheboygan Press)Students get preview of Spaceport Sheboygan http://tinyurl.com/3kcuqd (Sheboygan Press)Model Rocketry in Science Fairs http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2008/2008-05-02/feature1/index.html Supercomputing & GPUs Compilers and More: Accelerating High Performance http://tinyurl.com/56x9nt (HPC Wire)Homegrown high-performance computing http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1930421781;pp;1;fp;4;fpid;4Not Necessarily Parallel http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5954Notes on the state of the RLV industry in 2008 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1126/1Domain-Specific Parallel Programming http://www.computingatscale.com/?p=75SiCortex application workshop http://insidehpc.com/2008/05/13/sicortex-application-workshop/ *****
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  BlackBerry vs. iPhone

  http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080513/gruber/
  3 days ago in Voices | AllThingsD · Authority: 118

  By John Gruber, Editor, Daring Fireball Along the lines of can’t-really-be-answered-but- gosh-they’re-fun-to-ponder questions like, say, “Who’d win in a fight, Batman or Spider-Man?” or “Star Destroyer vs. U.S.S. Enterprise?” here’s one regarding the iPhone: What historical Mac is a current iPhone most analogous to, spec-wise? I.E., complete this sentence: “An iPhone is like having a tiny ____ in your pocket?” Read the rest of this post
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  Permalink for the debate continues…

  http://iphoneapp.net/2008/05/12/the-debate-continues/
  3 days ago in iphoneapp.net » · No authority yet

  the debate continues… Posted on by binary. Categories: in other news.... Great piece at Daring Fireball about the differences in features, design, and target users between Blackberry and iPhone.

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