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Initial thoughts on the iPad.

January 27, 2010

We weren’t exactly surprised with Apple’s revealing of the iPad today. Aside from our dislike of “iPad,” the device does look pretty good, though it’s clearly not as revolutionary as many people hoped. While usage reports are sure to trickle in soon, we’ll take this time to look back at the post we made last [...]

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mendax.iphone v3.0.

January 27, 2010

With word-on-the-street that the iTablet will emerge from the Pandora’s Box that is Apple’s campus later today, and with all signs pointing towards the iTablet leveraging the iPhone’s version of OS X (and with it, the AppStore), it makes sense to identify apps that no iPhone user should be without. That is to say, must-have [...]

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iTablet AppStore has its downsides.

January 11, 2010

By now, the rumour-wagon has settled on the idea that Apple’s purported tablet device, to be unveiled on the 27th, will run a mobile version of OS X (possibly the same OS as iPhone 4.0). The logical follow-up is that this tablet will also acquire its applications from iTunes, just like the iPhone does with [...]

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Real-time strategy to become more social, complex?

December 4, 2009

Electronic Arts (EA) is already preparing the Command & Conquer (C&C) franchise for the future vehicle for software proliferation: digital distribution. Kotaku, meanwhile, says that some fans are skeptical:
News of the transition was sending fears of a Facebook-ized, watered-down C&C among some series fans.
And yet C&C always was watered down, offering little more than eye-candy [...]

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Why do you need Flash on your iPhone?

November 4, 2009

People love to complain, and we think half of it is due to laziness. Or incompetence. And with the iPhone, it’s no different. Take MMS for example: thousands claimed it was silly for the iPhone not to support it, but we disagreed. MMS is an outdated technology for which there are plenty of modern-day solutions, [...]

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