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When Apple Stifles Innovation

John Gruber recently talked about how he deals with email on the iPhone, where Apple’s Mail tool lacks the ability to do something even as simple as flag a message in the inbox. He has go through a convoluted process of moving email to a specially-named folder, and then running a bit of AppleScript [...]

Posted 14 November 2008 † John Reese § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Your Freedom Is Your Choice

On the Openmoko:
… by the fact that Openmoko is a tiny company, they don’t have the purchasing power that Apple has to get newer hardware components at an inexpensive price point, hence the older ARM CPU and TI Calypso GSM chipsets. It’s still plenty peppy enough and has enough RAM that I can run numerous [...]

Posted 24 September 2008 † John Reese § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Your Freedom Is A Choice

On the new G1 phone using Android:
i need a google account to use gphone; i need itunes to use iphone; i have to buy apps from approved channels.
it favors the vendors apps; no thanks
wake me when i can buy a device that runs apps i choose, connects to the network i want. i realize this [...]

Posted 23 September 2008 † John Reese § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,