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Monthly Archives: June 2010
iPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown – iFixit
via ifixit.com
“three red blood cells lined up side by side”
And we’re worried about a bunch of people with minor reception issues?
The State of iPad Satisfaction
It’s a good job product Development Managers (and some CEO’s) are dictators as I wrote yesterday http://wp.me/p1XYS-84
Otherwise, the iPad might have a removable battery and a physical keyboard and….yes 10% want a stylus!
Product Development is for Dictators
Michael Arrington recently wrote an article about Digg and its ‘travails’ on Techcrunch.
I know little about Digg, but I believe he makes a very good general point about Product Development. He wrote;
Product should be a dictatorship. Not consensus driven. There are casualties. Hurt feelings. Angry users. But all of those things are necessary if you’re going to create something unique.
I love that line. It speaks to me exactly about what is important in Product Development. Continue reading
Unlike the iPhone, I know not of other Products where users contribute such awesome Marketing
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf
via vimeo.com
“Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film – UPDATE: Behind the scenes footage included
Having just spent tonight (badly) editing some SD footage with iMovie 9 on my MacMini, I can only say, I need an iPhone 4 with IMovie about now.
Touch makes all the difference. Mice, trackpads are just about useless for real control – unless you are an expert who does this every day.
Arrington on Digg and Product development
Product should be a dictatorship. Not consensus driven. There are casualties. Hurt feelings. Angry users. But all of those things are necessary if you’re going to create something unique.
via techcrunch.com
I wouldn’t be sharing this if I didn’t love that line. It is EXACTLY what I think.
And I liked it so much I posted an article inspired by it on my Blog.
Scenes from a Norwegian rooftop | Crikey
via crikey.com.au
Awesome, maybe we should move to Norway. The traffic MOVES! Road’s get FINISHED in a DAY!
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Awesome Cover on the newyorker:
In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/
Microsoft’s Windows 8 game plan – Understanding Consumers
via news.cnet.com
Nice to see they recognise that the Mainstream are actually ‘Humans’ and are the bulk of your revenue.
Other large supposedly consumer-focused organisations would do well to think about that sometimes
Microsoft’s Windows 8 game plan – Understanding Consumers
via news.cnet.com
Nice to see they recognise that the Mainstream are actually ‘Humans’ and are the bulk of your revenue.
Other large supposedly consumer-focused organisations would do well to think about that sometimes
