>iPhone is a biggie, as mentioned above. I don’t touch my iPad much — if so, it’s mostly as an expensive Kindle. I still like the laptop/desktop experience the most. I wish more content was designed for the big screen.
I can't believe the responsive web design trend hasn't done more to take advantage of gigantic screens. Everyone is pushing for smaller screens on mobile devices, while computer screens are way bigger than the 800-1100px width most sites are built for. Fullscreen apps on OSX are getting people used to the gigantic screen, but news in a 600px column doesn't really take advantage.
Pinterest does a good job with this, where they add columns as the browser gets bigger. Some may find it a little more cluttered, but at least it's using the space efficiently.
Seriously. Someone make a hacknews/reddit-style discovery system for TV. Channels become subreddits. If you finish item one, item two starts automatically.
If he turns into Hank Scorpio, sign me up!
In all seriousness, though, I think this could turn out like the SLU neighborhood here in Seattle. Paul Allen bought all the land and turned it into a major biotech hub, and now Amazon, tech stars, and others are taking it over.
This is his column for Inc, not an unveiling of the product. Look at the title, he's talking about redoing a product from the ground up, and using his experience as a parable for businesses everywhere to ponder. It's not called "Introducing Basecamp 2.0"
This has been the biggest problem with ebooks in general in my mind. Kindle books are DRM'ed, I couldn't sell them once I'm done with them, which keeps me buying physical books.
So I see it as the problem that really needs to be figured out (and is why I was hopeful for bitcoin at one point, it seemed to have a DRM system that allowed for transfer of ownership).
Apologies if this is slightly off topic.
they may be able to keep the people from knowing about it until it happens, but with all this outrage it seems unlikely they'll be able to keep it quiet after the fact. Then they'll have to answer to this behavior come election time.
I'm pretty tired of this argument. Or at least, including education and healthcare in there. Law enforcement is very different than education. A monopoly of the use of force is soooo different than optimal learning.
A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market, and will not be chosen by consumers that care more about their children's experience. Schools that provide the best long-term experience for the students will have the best profits, no shady practices required.
If healthcare really was in a free market, then consumers could choose to avoid the providers that try to bend them over backwards for their own bottomline.
This touches on what I see as a pretty big deal for social networks going forward, although Path is probably not the right app to solve the problem. We have been throwing all this data about ourselves into all these different apps for as long as 6-7 years now (much more intensively over the last 2 though), but don't have a meaningful way to browse through it, or even find anything in it. Timeline is another major step in this direction, but as of now still has a way to go.
Everyone's talking about what these networks our doing with our data, but what are WE doing with our own data?
I keep coming back to Google's Parisian Love commercial, if only we could have our own online history presented the same way: http://youtu.be/nnsSUqgkDwU
Played with a family members new 7" Galaxy tab this weekend, and as a fellow iPad owner, I have to admit that 7" is a nice size. Big enough to be very comfortable for most tablet activities, but more manageable in your hands. If there was a choice between 7" or 10" iPads, I bet a lot of people would go for 7".
Haven't used the Xbox experience so I can't really say, but it seems like this could be another situation where Apple doesn't create an entirely new concept, but rather brings it to the masses simply and beautifully. I'd sure rather have an Apple experience when it came to TV