Articles in the Rant Category
Do you wear silly hats? Glasses that cover more than 35% percent of your face? Have a beard, even though you can’t fully grow one? Wear jeans that fit extraordinarily well? Love coke?
Obsolescence, meet iPhone. It’s true, iPhone OS 4 won’t touch the original iPhone at all. But even the iPhone 3G is getting shafted quite a bit with iPhone OS 4. More
Popups were an understandable workaround for the shortcomings of the iPhone operating system. But with OS 4, Apple missed their chance to build a good alert system. Now, popups are about to get way out of hand. More
Make no mistake, iAds are the iPhone user’s worst enemy. If Buzz Lightyear were at the unveiling, he’d have rocket punched Apple right in the face. More
Soon, every internet-connected device will make “phone calls”—Xbox, iPhone, laptop, whatever. Data is data, be it voice, text or video. Carriers should charge for data—more even—but leave off the dumb premiums for voice and SMS. More
There’s something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the fuzzy screen of a cellphone, trying to capture it forever, like an asshole. More
Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7 . At least on paper. But instead of trying to beat them completely, it seems that you want to screw it all with two stupid decisions. More
If you buy a 3G iPad, you’ll be able to purchase data, month by month , from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything ? More
The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to death, but mainstream German media—whose iPhone applications have been censored by Apple because of its content—are not surrendering. I’m glad. In fact, I hope they win this war. More
The Palm Pre unveiling stands in my memory as one of the most refreshing moments in modern history. Palm had done it—they had created a great phone Nokia would’ve killed for. But today, that’s just not enough. As Palm teeters on the brink of either ruin or acquisition, let’s take stock of what they did right: • They abandoned an entrenched but aging platform for something new an innovative, and they didn’t half-ass it: Palm OS was dead, WebOS was here. • WebOS was actually good

