March 2010
14 posts
Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz - DYSKE.COM →
“One day, I was talking to my wife about the TV commercial for eBay where a chubby lady sings and dances to an appropriated version of “My Way” by Frank Sinatra. The lyrics were entirely re-written, and “my way” was transformed into “eBay”. I told her that they did a good job in adapting the original song. Then she said: “Ah, that’s why I like it so much!” She actually did not realize that...
Techno Rebels » Narrating the evolution of techno... →
Response to iTunes App Store user "Mockup"
“To the dev: My only suggestion would be to reduce the app’s disk space footprint. Based on the many iPhone games I’ve played, I feel like this should be able to fit in way less than 24 mb. Many of us still have 8 gb iPhones, filled to the brim with music, podcasts, photos, videos, and other apps… every megabyte counts. Thanks!”
Thanks for the review and the kind words!
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“We don’t deserve anything. Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don’t...”
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Engineer Thinking » Matt Legend Gemmell →
“But a problem arises when you allow precision-based design principles to hinder user experience. All too often, when faced with a decision about how to implement certain functionality, engineers take the extreme position that:
A feature must be exactly what 100% of users want.
If the above isn’t true (and it almost never is), the feature must be configurable.
This binary approach is...
Wil Shipley: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs... →
“Enforcing patents is wrong. You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse?”
Right on. This is the shittiest thing Apple has done in a while.