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Hardware

The Nirvana Phone: Can I Have One Now Please?

February 4, 2010

Yesterday I posted about a discussion Jared Spool and I had about the import of the iPad.
I made the claim that the handset would continue to be the innovation driver, and as soon as it had the computing horsepower to drive a large LCD monitor and run productivity applications, it would be the primary and [...]

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Tablets Are (Probably) Superfluous

February 2, 2010

I really thought I’d be able to resist bloviating about the iPad. But then I read this tweet from Jared Spool:
Is nobody else talking about the iPad’s interesting facet? It brings the gap between phone & computer manufacturers closer together.
It got pushed to his Facebook as an update, where I flippantly responded:
And that’s a good [...]

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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Keep The Lawyers Out Of The UI

January 31, 2010

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Old-school readers of UsabilityBlog may remember my (ranty but well-reasoned) diatribe against EULA’s and how they’re presented in software user interfaces. (Also check out my follow-up posts here and here.)
This picture I took the other day  reminded me how easy it is to corrupt and degrade the user experience with obtuse [...]

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