August 2010
6 posts
Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective →
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws. Then this happened: Other manufacturers had…
The Economics of Happiness | Adbusters... →
becomingminimalist:
It's more open...
mnmal:
original here.
Part of the reason I got an HTC Incredible is that everyone kept talking about how open Android phones are. Then I was like, “Ok, now how do I get WiFi tethering on this bad-boy?”
The response was, “Oh, it’s easy. You just have to root it.”
“So you’re saying I have to hack it. Same way I can do whatever I want with my iPhone, but I have to hack it first.”
...
Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr -... →
(via Instapaper)