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2011 - iPad with forward facing camera 2011 - iPhone on Verizon 2011 - AppleTV with 3rd Party Apps and App Store 2012 - iPad with Retina display 2012 - iPhone with RFID 2013 - AppleTV subscription...

Gravity and White board Markers

Gravity pulls ink down. If you store your markers in a cup like I do you'll always get squeaky markers that perpetually run out.  A better way to store them is perhaps upside down, like new k...

Android on it's way to a 3.1 moment

The story of Android vs. iPhone reminds me a lot of the story of Microsoft Windows vs. Apple Macintosh. In this version the part of Microsoft will be played by Google. The similarities are str...

Visual TrackPad of tomorrow

Apple released a product that was decidedly un-magical when it released the Magic Trackpad. Despite the use of the word "Magic" the device was really just a big trackpad with nothing to amaze or d...

What's wrong with Android

The UI design is inconsistent and ugly and has many usability issues Since there are inconsistincies in screen size it make it hard to write certain types of apps. Games in particular. The Android...

9 Things I didn't know about the iPad

The keyboard design isn't as slick as the iPhone keyboard design It's not quite a MacBook keyboard layout and it's not an iPhone keyboard layout either. Commit actions like, done, go, search aren...

Mobile On-Screen Keyboards

It's interesting to look at several mobile on-screen keyboards side by side to compare various design decisions. I've shown screenshots of the iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile phones. The i...

Bad Standards

Firefox has it's own layout language called XUL that is used to style and design much of the UI inside Firefox.  If HTML is so great why did Firefox need XUL?  The reason is that HTML and CSS ...

Why the iPad will succeed and fail

Why it will succeed The iPad will crush the Kindle market.  It's cooler, slicker, has a color screen and will have thousands of apps at lau nch. While people can read books and newspapers the...

Apple's Tablet, Slate, Canvas, Taplet

Tablet style computing has been one of the most failed technologies ever. History is full of examples of similar devices that have crashed and burned. 1950's Styalator electronic tablet, 1960'...