September 23rd, 2008 // 33 Comments
Filed: Tech
I’ll have a full story going up on Newsweek.com soon, but meanwhile something occurred to me today while I was watching the Webcast of the G1 phone from HTC and T-Mobile. It seems to me we’re seeing a replay of the PC wars from the 1980s, back when that market was small but growing very [...]
Tagged: Android, G1, iPhone
July 23rd, 2008 // 38 Comments
Filed: Personal
Just did a quick videocam intereview with a guy named Justin who has a show called TalkingheadTV and he was asking me which iPhone apps I like best. Um, well, uh, I had to admit that I’d only tried a few. Flashlight (stupid but it’s only a buck and possibly useful someday); Facebook, AIM, Tetris, [...]
Tagged: iPhone
July 22nd, 2008 // 6 Comments
Filed: Tech
Many thanks to eagle-eyed reader Christopher T. who spotted the photo above which shows one Danny Fukuba showing off his 3G iPhone after waiting in line for two days outside the Palo Alto store. Turns out this same kid was detained a while back for messing around with iPhones in an Apple store. At the [...]
Tagged: iPhone
July 22nd, 2008 // 49 Comments
Filed: Tech
So I held off on the first iPhone and took loads of shit for it while I was doing Fake Steve. Example: I was giving a speech in LA and mentioned my BlackBerry, so during the Q&A some clever prick put up his hand and said, “I would like to know why is Steve Jobs [...]
Tagged: Apple, iPhone