Peter Nixey:

So Apple, I think you’ve got a bit con­fused. Don’t worry about shar­ing, we don’t need you for that. Your job is to take pho­tos, organ­ise them and make sure they don’t get lost. So let’s talk about how you can do that.

Nixey shares some good ideas.

Randall Armor, PetaPixel:

The hard part is admit­ting that maybe I missed the shot and need to try harder next time. The hard part is try­ing to con­tin­u­ally hone my wits and reflexes in order to bet­ter cap­ture moments the way they actu­ally hap­pen instead of rely­ing on soft­ware skills to man­u­fac­ture more per­fect ones after the fact.

Tim Culpan, Bloomberg:

A decline in rev­enue from the iPad Mini “is more on demand, while price has been sta­ble,” Pegatron Chief Executive Officer Jason Cheng said. “Not just tablets, also e-books and games con­soles, almost every item is mov­ing in a neg­a­tive direction.”

No CEO of an Apple sup­plier talks specifics, so Philip Elmer-Dewitt asked Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng for clarification:

“After the meet­ing, one reporter from Bloomberg approached me, try­ing to dig out detail num­bers about some spe­cific prod­uct. I clearly refused to com­ment on spe­cific prod­ucts, nor cus­tomers, even though he con­tin­ued with other ques­tions. I did say those words that he quotes me in the arti­cle “more on demand, while price has been sta­ble”…, “almost every item is mov­ing in a neg­a­tive direc­tion”…; “Not just tablets, also e-books and games con­soles”. But I did not say any­thing asso­ci­ated with any spe­cific products.

Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng did not say demand for the iPad mini is down.

Nokia: The Nokia DC-18 is a uni­ver­sal portable USB charger with a retractable micro USB con­nec­tor. Nicely designed.

Jay Yarow, Business Insider:

The iPad Mini is going to get its Retina dis­play in the sec­ond half of the year, accord­ing to NPD ana­lyst Richard Shim.

He tells us that his sup­ply chain checks say Apple should start mass pro­duc­tion of an iPad Mini with Retina in the third quar­ter of this year.

Cool, if true.

Shim says this older chip is going to have to “light up twice as many pix­els” for the Retina iPad Mini [...]

Twice as many pix­els? Not quadru­ple as many pix­els? If the num­ber pix­els are merely dou­bled, we’re look­ing at a pixel for­mat of 1536×1152, which points to a res­o­lu­tion of 243 ppi. The full-size iPad sports a res­o­lu­tion of 264 ppi. Since the iPad mini is smaller we hold it closer than we do with the iPad, so the res­o­lu­tion of the iPad mini should be higher than the iPad’s, not lower.

There’s another prob­lem: An addi­tional pixel for­mat of 1536×1152 would make it more dif­fi­cult than it already is to develop apps for the iOS plat­form. Right now we have 960×640 (iPhone 4 and 4S), 1136×640 (iPhone 5), 1024×768 (iPad 2 and iPad mini), and 2048×1536 (iPad 3 and 4).

I’m keep­ing my fin­gers crossed for a 2048×1536 iPad mini, but I’m not cer­tain Apple will equip the iPad mini with a real retina dis­play. With the iPhone 5 Apple made life more dif­fi­cult for iOS devel­op­ers by intro­duc­ing a non-standard 16:9 pixel for­mat of 1136×640. After tout­ing retina dis­plays on both iOS and OS X devices the 162-ppi iPad mini was a step back in terms of res­o­lu­tion. I waited until the iPad (3) because I couldn’t stand hav­ing to stare at pix­els on the iPad 2. If Apple decided to come out with a whacky 1536×1152 iPad mini for bat­tery life rea­sons or to hit a cer­tain price point, I wouldn’t be surprised.

The Ti is Vertu’s first Android smart­phone, and hand­made in England. I don’t know of any other smart­phone that is made by hand, so it’s unique, but it’ll cost you: €7900+.

Adobe: Project Mighty is a pres­sure sen­si­tive sty­lus that con­nects to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Project Napoleon is a small dig­i­tal ruler and can act like a dig­i­tal pro­trac­tor. There’s a lit­tle lag, but these two look like win­ners. Check out the video.

Horace Dediu:

However, the data from com­Score has already begun to show that Android may have peaked around 54% share. Android share is now at the same level it was in July while iPhone share has grown by more than 6 points since then.

With all the news report­ing the rapid sales of Android smart­phones this is some­what surprising.

Roundthird:

Pixel Press is an iOS app that lets you draw your own video game [...]

Got to see it to believe it. For guys who can draw bet­ter than they can code Pixel Press is a dream. Make it come true: Launching May 7 on Kickstarter.

Anton Wahlman, The Street:

On the hard­ware side, I don’t like this HTC One at all. Its great­est sin is that it feels like it’s about to slip out of your hand any sec­ond, and what’s worse than that?

Metal is more slip­pery than plas­tic. Butterfingers: caveat emptor.