Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. She rendered a 16 x 16 bitmap of the little symbol and showed it to the rest of the team, and everybody liked it. Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it.
Unfortunately, the other thing you’re still looking at is the RAZR’s miserable 4.3-inch PenTile qHD display. [...] Text looks jaggy, whites shift to blue when viewed off-axis, and the whole thing generally feels like the concession to thinness that it is. I’m not a huge fan of the 720p Super AMOLED PenTile display on the Galaxy Nexus either, but it’s head and shoulders above the RAZR and RAZR Maxx. Motorola would have been far better off using the extra thickness of the Maxx to accommodate a better display — yes, the Maxx’s battery will run all day, but you’re not going to want to look at the screen for nearly that long.
The display sucks, but what’s surprising is a LTE smartphone running all day. You know what that means. Dan Frommer:
I think it’s safe to say we’ll see the first LTE iPhones this year.
Sad. Kodak’s Steve Sasson invented the first digital camera in December 1975.
Eastman Kodak Company announced today that, as a result of its ongoing strategic review process and commitment to drive sustainable profitability through its most valuable business lines, it plans to phase out its dedicated capture devices business – comprising digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames – in the first half of 2012.
via Stephen Hackett. Of the ten, this is my favorite:
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
Of Ogilvy’s work habits as a copywriter, this is most interesting:
I do all my writing at home.
The company’s television head, Kim Hyun-Suk, told reporters that he projects Samsung will sell 50 million flat-screen TVs worldwide this year, of which 25 million will be “smart” models.
I don’t have a TV connected to any TV source, but when I used to watch TV a long time ago all I had to do was get comfortable, grab the remote, and start flipping channels. With these smart TVs watching TV will be a complex, complicated, and frustrating affair. Just the thought of having to wait for a security update is enough. I don’t expect I’d like it and I bet there are many others who won’t either.
What I long for is self-sufficient, manual creation.
Manual creation… reminds me of The Knife Maker.
via Ben Brooks. Dan Moren:
The thing I found the hardest to get used to on the iPad was the lack of windows. On the Mac, I think nothing of arranging a Web browser and a text editor, or two text-editor windows, side by side and then referring to one while typing in the other. On the iPad, that’s impossible, as I found on the morning of day three when I tried to start composing this story from my notes.
This too was the biggest change I experienced when I experimented with an iPad as my only work computer. Unfortunately, I was not able to adapt; going from a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a 1920×1200 pixel format to an iPad demanded too much of a change in the way I work.
via Patrick Rhone. Mark Smith:
Even as we scramble to replace our daily activities with simplified digital solutions, there’s still nothing quite like writing something down.
via John Gruber. Mat Honan:
Instagram isn’t just small; it’s tiny. It’s miniscule. It is famously located in Twitter’s old digs in San Francisco’s South Park neighborhood. But here’s the thing: Instagram subleases its space from another company. Instagram isn’t in Twitter’s old office, it’s in Twitter’s old conference room.
I took the liberty of borrowing from Yoda for the title of this post.
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