I think HN member reader5000 said it best:
I think what they should do is just mutually agree to make a big bonfire, burn a couple billion in cash each, and then get back to business as usual.
I think HN member reader5000 said it best:
I think what they should do is just mutually agree to make a big bonfire, burn a couple billion in cash each, and then get back to business as usual.
A week later, Arrington is about to be fired. The aristocrats.
Update: CNN is beating TechCrunch to a pulp today. “The end of TechCrunch? It might be a good thing.”
Marco Arment, on the idea of buying a high-end desktop and a MacBook Air:
Since I never stopped buying laptops since getting the Mac Pro, I’ve been a multiple-computer user since 2008. Trust me, it sucks.
I’d love to get a new 11-inch MacBook Air with a 27-inch iMac, but the thought of keeping both in sync is unfathomable. Even with current tools like Dropbox, and soon-to-be current tools like iCloud, it’s still an enormous pain to keep my stupid huge media files in check. It just doesn’t work for me.
His choice (spoiler alert!) was a 15-inch MacBook Pro, maxed out with a big solid-state drive, relocating the standard hard drive to the optical drive bay. This would likely be my choice as well, with the obligatory enormo-display at the desk.
Sony launched a promotional website for their new tablet, inventively named the “Tablet S”, and I like the idea. The website is beautifully done, too, with that trendy parallax scrolling in heavy use. Something struck me upon reaching the Unlimited Music section. This is a shot of what the service looks like (click to enlarge any image in this post):
It looks an awful lot like iTunes 8′s genre view:
I failed to grab a screenshot of iTunes 8′s genre view when I had the chance, so all credit goes to Positive Feedback.
Now, of course, this is arguably nitpicking. Showing genres in an interactive, image-heavy way is not a unique concept. However, some of the genre-representative images on Sony’s device are quite close. In each, the foreground is the iTunes thumbnail; the background is the Sony version.
One may argue that the iTunes images are obvious representations, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the metaphors are the only ones Sony designers could have used. Why not use a saxophone for jazz, or a different font for dance? Sony has one of the better design teams in the tech world. There’s no reason they couldn’t have tried for something unique.