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As Apple overtook Microsoft in market cap and as Steve Jobs reminisced about some recent history, I thought I’d reflect on some of the decisions that brought Apple to the pinnacle of technology companies.  The criteria I used to select these is how improbable and hence courageous they were when taken and how much impact [...]

HTC: TEXT AND PICTURE MESSAGES Text and picture messages will be deleted with this software update. You can back up text and picture messages by forwarding them to an email address. Open the Messaging application Tap and hold on the desired text or picture message Tap Forward Enter an email address then tap Send APPLICATIONS [...]

The Progress of the Platform. On why there is a ban on intermediate layers of software development on the iPhone OS. But the reason isn’t technical. It’s partly business (Apple doesn’t want another company to control any important part of the iPhone platform), but it’s also in no small part grounded in aesthetics and the [...]

At one point in time, J2ME (now Java ME) and WAP were the starting points for a discussion on mobile strategy and the web. Then, for a brief period of time, you talked about HTML/CSS. Now, for a growing majority of mobile strategies that don’t require a global presence on widely varying devices, the discussion [...]

Apple: When Will They Build Their Own Mobile Search Engine? – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com. The opportunity here is not to do web search better than Google, but to find a way to index the information that lives on the iPhone ecosystem.  With potential for millions of apps and hundreds of millions of iPhones [...]

Todd Brix from Microsoft is saying the lack of copy/paste is by design link: Windows Phone Thoughts: Windows phone 7 Will Lack Copy & Paste: Please Proceed With Your Screaming and Yelling It’s amazing how precisely Microsoft copied the iPhone.

Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development : Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience There’s zero backwards compatibility with Windows Phone 6.5 applications. It’s still based on Windows CE underneath (version 6 in this case) Developers are going to need to re-code their apps. So what will they code it in? So [...]

Evan Doll gets it:Stanford CS193P – Designing for iPad

A devastating exposé on the incompatibility of Flash content with touchscreens. Many (if not most) current Flash games, menus, and even video players require a visible mouse pointer. They are coded to rely on the difference between hovering over something (mouseover) vs. actually clicking. This distinction is not rare. It’s pervasive, fundamental to interactive design, [...]

Alan Kay, regarding his reaction to the iPhone in January 2007: When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And [...]