Zune Text Based Interface Design
When Zune was released to the world I found it curious that few commented on the the Microsoft choice of interface – a text based menu system vs. Apples icon alternative. To navigate through the Microsoft menu system – you scroll through text descriptions of the various options – “Music”, “Videos”, [...]
HP Tablet PC
So now Nokia is the latest participant in the tablet race. And who cares? Maybe the same crowd that thinks there’s still hope for Palm (See my note at the end of this article)?
As I’ve said before 2010 is the year of the tablet, but we need to keep in mind – it’s [...]
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It’s no secret that Apple is cash rich, currently sitting on 40 billion in reserves and in the past few months they’ve been publicly stating that they have some desire to begin spending it. Well I have an idea: buy Nintendo (or a large stake in the company). Why? Well [...]
Apple’s original PDA, helped establish the market Palm took over, in part due to major innovations the company made.
Leapfrogging – It’s a phenomenon that I see occur time and time again, where the industry leader is blindsided by a leap in innovation – an innovation they should have owned. Yet so many organizations still [...]
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So everyone is bitching today that the iPad is a bit of a disappointment, that they expected something ‘ground breaking’ or ‘revolutionary’. Well, you have. What the iPad will accomplish in it’s first year is it will start to make digital data ambiguous.
Sure smart phones have started the march down the path of [...]
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Hindsight is always rather entertaining. Looking back you see just how naive we were and how we felt at the time that we had progressed further than what time shows.
To me the last decade was the decade of the internet. Sure it started in the 90’s but the true infrastructure and adoption occured [...]