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Fiction: How Steve Jobs Cuckolds AT&T

August 17, 2008 – 10:40 pm

TweetSteve shimmers into a bar, materializes next to Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO, crying in his mojito and whispers: I can fulfill your fondest dream. You’re the Devil, go away! No, I’m merely Steve Jobs and I want nothing to do with your soul or your chiseled body. Relax, it’s just about money. A little bit [...]

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Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and Sync Trouble

August 11, 2008 – 6:31 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. So goes one of the many proverbs of our computer lore. As Apple found out last month with the MobileMe launch misfires, the lofty promise of “Exchange for the rest of us” translated into a user experience that was neither simple nor easy [...]

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iPhone 3G — One Week Later

July 21, 2008 – 6:05 pm

TweetContrary to what I expected, the dust hasn’t settled yet. A week later, people still queue, 2h30 Friday morning before being admitted to the sanctum sanctorum in San Francisco. Besides the long lines, there were glitches: activation problems, trouble with the new MobileMe service, with getting access to software updates for the “old” iPhones. Apple [...]

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Nokia makes Symbian Open Source: Declaring Victory?

June 30, 2008 – 5:59 pm

TweetWhen a $oftware company experiences a sudden access of generosity and donates its first born to the world of Open Source, what are we to think? They made so much money it was embarrassing? Or, it’s an act of desperation: We can’t sell it, maybe be they’ll use it if we give it away. Uncharitable [...]

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iPhone Applications: Apple people now believe in a Supreme Being

June 16, 2008 – 6:14 pm

TweetNo, no, not Steve Jobs but an even higher entity smiling upon the company. As I hope to show, Apple’s hard work years ago is now about to pay huge unexpected dividends on the iPhone. When the iPhone first came out of Steve Jobs’ quasi-divine hands in January 2007, it was a hack, the result [...]

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The rise of the nomadic web browsing

June 9, 2008 – 6:18 am

Tweet“Welcome to the Weekend Web”, said Business Week. Internet browsing differs from weekdays to weekends. In this story, Google Mobile’s chief says that the biggest part of traffic on the search giant’s mobile sites occurs Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend’s mobile web promenade involves mostly classified and local sites. Among them (on the US market), [...]

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