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This is a “shot” from Dribbbler, showing off a (PS3) game’s icon extreme design. One of the comments to this shot reads: Allison House “This is beautiful. I want to play that game so badly…” I would say this is the secret answer to the secret question “How is
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A reply to Susan Orlean’s: horses didn’t get extinct I have just bought The Oxford English Dictionary for 1.99$. I did it out of guilt: 5 years ago the hardcover thing was 120$.
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European telcos ask for money from Google and Apple Gruber says no way. Me thinks problem… Imagine content filtering, selective FOTAs, default phone features transformed into premium, VOIP or P2P extra-charging and God knows what many other “initiatives” brought against “magical user experience”… Me thinks that’s clearly not the
For 2011, iPad 2 will have backlit LCD, Nexus S will also sport super clear LCD. I guess Samsung won’t have a business case with only one manufacturer using AMOLED: themselves.
Susan Orlean’s argument for ebooks Hard copy books won’t disappear because of the ebooks, they’re like horses: “Horses lost out to cars, but obviously they didn’t die out as a species” This isn’t the real problem. What’s troubling everybody is a major industry change,
“Free Downloads on Ovi rise fast, now I get over 42K/day, but sales are falling, I’m earning less than half of last months. Not happy at all. web • 12/7/10 12:31” “I fear all this will lead, in some time, to the end of my business.
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What has Apple been producing and selling all the time? Ideas It’s not a hardware company, neither a design one (although that’s how they like to call themselves). It’s an ideas factory, maybe the most prolific per period of time.
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I can feel the Force; but not in Google’s ebook store. They somehow managed to loose their mojo, i.e. “search engine functionality”. In first picture there is a result to “Eugene Ionescu” query (not “Ionesco”). You can see on the second position “The Paltinis Diary” by Gabriel Liiceanu.
The convertible is right on time! It’s evolution, a concept this guy knows by heart!
Viber – free calls, if you can! I’ve been playing with Viber for 24 hours now. As you can see in the above link, Gruber finds its goods and bads, from marketing and user experience point of view. And he’s right, given one condition: this damn thing to actually
Gizmodo finds fugitive WikiLeaks And turns them in. Why?