Kyle Wagner: Battery isn’t some one-off feature. You don’t fritter entire train rides away worried that your phone doesn’t have diamond-cut chamfered edges, or which widgets you should have on your home screen. (Or if you do, that is very sad and you should stop.) Your night has never been ruined because your apps load […]
2013
Comparing Smartphone, Tablet and PC Graphics
Anandtech: At the end of the day I’d say it’s safe to assume the current crop of high-end ultra mobile devices can deliver GPU performance similar to that of mid to high-end GPUs from 2006. The caveat there is that we have to be talking about performance in workloads that don’t have the same memory […]
Is Blink Bad News for Apple?
Fun aside, I think this post by Krzysztof Kowalczyk gets a lot right: For Google the viability of the web is life or death situation and as such they’ll pour as much resources as necessary to make Blink work. In contrast, Apple is rumored to be pulling engineers from other projects and making them work […]
The Vanishing Uninformed and the Facebook Phone
Dan Frommer has a suggestion as to who is going to buy the Facebook phone: Facebook unveiled its long-awaited mobile phone platform today. It is, as assumed, a Facebook “layer” on top of Google Android. I haven’t had a chance to use it yet, or even take a detailed look at the presentation. But I […]
The Facebook Home Hands-On
The Verge has a 15-minute hands-on with the Facebook Home. It’s well worth the time. I must say, I’m impressed. The level of care and attention to detail is immediately apparent; it’s far more fluid and “fun” than anything I’ve ever seen from Android. Still skeptical though. Mobile is tough; more soon.
Blink
Rather burying Mozilla’s announcement (a coincidence, I’m sure), is the news on Blink: WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium’s rendering engine back when we started. Thanks to the hard work by all in […]
Servo
The Mozilla blog (emphasis mine): We’ve recently begun collaborating with Samsung on an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo. Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that […]
The iPad and the Disaggregation of Computing
In the 10 days this blog has been online I’ve spent a lot of time on mobile, and understandably so! It’s the biggest business in tech, and the entry point to computing for much of the world. But, like many geeks, it is traditional computers that have always been closest to my heart, and what […]
Strategy 101 and the Wall Street Journal: A Fisking
The Wall Street Journal has 531 words in a news item about Apple’s plans to start production on a new iPhone in the second quarter. 155 of the words are useful:1 Apple Inc plans to begin production of a refreshed iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one in the second quarter of […]
The Real Reason Andy Rubin left Android
Business Insider: Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Andy Rubin viewed Android’s most successful partner, Samsung, as a potential threat. Why?: Samsung could grow so popular with consumers, that it could eventually re-write Android’s code in an entirely customized way, and stop calling it Android altogether. The report said Rubin told a […]