Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
1. Choose a target that everyone loves to hate: for example Canadian duopoly / cableCo / wirelessCo Rogers.
2. Choose a cause that everyone lusts for: for example the Canadian launch of Apple’s iPhone.
3. Put them together: for example, Rogers has the most expensive plan on the planet for the iPhone.
4. Choose [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)
Favourite quote:
I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
If you’re browsing with Safari Mobile using your iPhone or iPod Touch, this site is now available in a ‘touch friendly’ format. This is thanks to the bleeding edge spanking new Wordpress plug-in and theme known as IWPhone built by Content.Robot. What it does is simple, it turns this website into an interface [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Now that I see Apple’s new iPod Touch delivering the full YouTube eXperience. I finally understand the Apple TV & YouTube product. You see, none of Apple’s products really compete with each other. The iPod touch won’t replace your iPod Shuffle; you’ll want both for different reasons. iPod shuffle is discrete [...]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
***UPDATE: Leaflets improves the Safari mobile UX. If you’re using your iPhone or iPod touch. Hey, Apple why not include a link to this with your next iPod touch update? ***
It’s only been a few hours since I’ve been playing with Apple’s new iPod touch, and the User eXperience is the best I’ve [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
There seems to be a whiff of competitive cake-making on Flickr… who can make the best iphone cake?? So far DebbieDoesCakes has the best entry! There are a lot more pictures of Blackberry cakes - but then they’re MADE from blackberries…
It also appears that iphone cakes are much harder [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
In our regular installment of crazy patent talk… Apple has just filed a patent application titled Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device. A rather vague title that’s better described deeper into the document:
Recent developments in consumer electronics have included the introduction of portable personal communication devices such as cell phones, personal [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Nortel’s Corporate Design Group a.k.a. CDG was in the Citizen this weekend. The Nortel Orbitor could have been up there with the Blackberry and iPhone according to the story.
It certainly was exciting working at CDG.
Oh, the good old days. I think I miss working on that touch strip phone most of all. By the [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
The USPTO has published an application today by Apple Computer for the dynamic display of song lyrics on a portable display. This is how it’s going to work:
A method for presenting lyrics on a display screen of a portable media device, said method comprising: (a) identifying an audio file for a media item to [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
ok… we’ll stop writing about iPhone…soon. SM friend Peter Krug points us to iPhoney - a browser simulation tool from Markham Ontario based MarketCircle. The simulator is free and open-source. It only runs on Mac OS X 10.4.7 and up. What can you do with it?
Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications [...]
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