Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

The US Patent Courts and Gizmodo fail to understand the word “invention” again

December 20, 2011mike Comments Off

It looks likely that HTC and possibly other android developers could be defeated in the US Patent Courts by Apple. Gizmodo correctly writes how this could be a blow to the consumer as it would limit competition and choice. I also completely agree with the Gizmodo article in that if Apple wins its battle with [...]

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A tribute to Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011mike Comments Off

I have typical taken an anti-Apple stance.  This is not because I don’t respect them as a company or their founder, Steve Jobs as a man.  I truly feel they have contributed greatly to the modern world. I intentionally avoided the knee jerk article about Steve Jobs as I knew there were other media sources [...]

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Droid for a day aka Linux Mobile

October 5, 2011mike 2 Comments »

I recently (Monday) switched from HP (Palm) webOS on an original Pre (read June 2009) to android.  Of course after two years with a phone I wasn’t about to enter android lightly so I opted for the Motorola Photon 4G, essentially the Droid Bionic or whatever the top of the line Moto is for Verizon etc. Having [...]

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Gizmodo reviews the iPhone 4S letdown, I review the Gizmodo review of the iPhone 4S letdown

October 4, 2011mike Comments Off

Hype, its something that surrounds James Cameron movies and Apple announcements.  Why?  Letdown after letdown has yet to teach us one simple lesson… hype leads to letdown. Gizmodo columnist Mat Honan put together an interesting op-ed piece about his personal letdown after the iPhone 5 er 4S announcement today. (Original article here: http://gizmodo.com/5846563/iphone-4s-i-am-disappoint) I wanted to [...]

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The New Pocket Watch

August 27, 2010mike 1 Comment »

As you may have notice from some recent articles I have recently purchased a fantastic art deco pocket watch. This article is only partially about that. Here we sit in 2010 with a timekeeper in our pockets.  The wristwatch while ever convenient is not a park of every person’s wardrobe (it usually is a part [...]

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