a look at the Windows Phone sales numbers

why AT&T sucks in Maine, explained

a look at the economics of iPhone App development

"Android phone shows key areas where Apple needs to improve" - or litigate, apparently

Mainers building mobile apps. excellent.

just what it says. relatively positive review, overall.

"The quandary I am facing is the one I've always faced in the Blackberry vs iPhone debate. I cannot type nearly as fast on a screen as a keyboard. I've given the Google phone a month. That's about as long as I've ever given the iPhone." - the quandary, indeed.

there are legitimate, not too mention important, questions to be asked about the lock-in model. but i think Manjoo significantly underestimates both the appeal and the benefits of centralized account access.the paradox of choice still applies.

profiling is not a bad idea, but i'm not sure it's going to help much in SF, where they pretty much need two or three times their currently available bandwidth

that they do. AT&T's backhaul in SF is nothing short of awful.

the good news is that we both have iPhones

"How could AT&T not object? AT&T clings to the old business of charging for voice calls in minutes. It takes not much more than 10 kilobits per second of data to handle voice. In a world of megabit per-second connections, that's nothing—hence Google's proposal to offer voice calls for no cost and heap on features galore." - voice is only 10 kilobits? i hadn't known that.

interesting look at the economics of the ecosystem

amen. the carriers are good at very little when it comes to software, as they've proven over and over again.

a bittorrent app that will drag-and-drop reformat for various devices. wonder if i should replace Deluge...

Mono on the iPhone? very cool. congrats to Migel and crew.

i certainly hope so

"One more gripe with the iPhone even with this update…. I keep expecting the team to give us a decent friggin cache. PLEASE let me give the iPhone as much space as it needs to keep my stuff around! A mobile browser that is often on a crap network needs this more than anyone else! Cache more aggressively. Save my JavaScript and CSS! At the very least, don’t let me hit the back button and wait for the entire bugger to be grabbed again for the love of god! Why can’t I about:config and up the caching space and rules :(

"Still, Apple needs to sort out the App Store, and quick. It's clearly a broken model, and the only person hurt is the iPhone user."

"BeejiveIM is beautifully designed, expertly implemented, and offers a new level of reliability. Could it be that we finally have a viable XMPP client for the iPhone? Yes."

the Pandora devs view of Android. verdict? there are challenges

this would be awesome

"Block has been earning almost $2,000 per day on the application, quite a bit more than she was expecting to make." - while i doubt this is the norm, and it'll get tougher as the library gets more crowded, 2K per day is 2K per day.

don't agree with much here at all. the iPhone is a remarkable web interface, without question, but i would never choose it over a full size display.

"There are some things dirt-cheap phones...can do that the vaunted iPhone cannot...Want to open an image sent to you via MMS by a friend from her (dirt-cheap) mobile phone? No dice." - really don't get this, unless image size is the problem

i don't know the BlackBerry side of this at all, but there's almost nothing in here about the iPhone that i disagree with

using this now, it's a nice if incremental improvement. that said, is there a way to view all tagged items in a flow?

more on the no-background-daemons iPhone SDK restriction

one of the Mono guys is...less than fired up about the iPhone SDK

very useful matrix comparing a few of the popular mobile platforms

an iPhone SDK reaction

"We will make sure it is familiar to S60 customers. Consistency is important. I can drive a Hyundai or a Mercedes. One might be more elegant, but essentially the experience is the same." - not sure that's the right metaphor

a mobile friendly interface for WordPress...coooooool. have this in place, and it's tremendous.

"In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that." - a sad, but necessary observation of the state of mobile here in the US

still not sure i want to jailbreak my phone, but cool. thanks much to Raven for sending it over.

if this is true, it's ridiculous. if it happens to me, i'll go absolutely beserk. this is the kind of thing that kills my impression of Apple.

not a fan, apparently

cool, i'll need to try this

not sure i'm ready to jailbreak the device, particularly since folks who did this previously had their phones bricked (which is crap, obviously)

no iPhone support in VMWare yet. unfortunate.

"And that's why, despite all my grumping and flailing about of hands, I wish Google the best of luck with Android, and I'm looking forward to seeing it run on some actual hardware, and what happens after that."

hahaha - this is classic

better late than never, as they say. if i ever go back to an email client, this will be of interest.

tight control is an intrinsic part of Apple's economic model, but rendering devices useless post modification seems like they've finally jumped the shark in that respect. wipe it? don't agree, but ok. but brick it? cutting the nose off to spite the face.

file this one under: i'll believe it when i see it

"A new 3G version of the iPhone may be launched Monday in the UK in a joint promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile, and UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse as an MVNO." - the "reliable sources" makes this suspect, but man would it be funny

"To lease a 2007 Ford Focus with air conditioning, you’re looking at less money per month although you’d make payments for additional years. But then, you may want to use your iPhone for more than two years as well" - hilarious comparison

"Being that Safari is not only the default browser for OS X but the only browser for the iPhone, Apple needs to make sure that more applications are Safari-tested."

this is interesting, considering the fact that i've actually begun using a couple of desktop Java applications again

"If Apple picked any single carrier, they would have been treated equally as shabbily. All of the carriers have a core of people who hate them and their practices." - true. i hate Verizon. and i do blog.

why i stopped by music from iTunes, exhibit A

for all the iPhone craving Verizon customers out there

looks like Alex isn't getting one either - that is a bit of a surprise

apparently i'm not the only on less than enthralled with the iPhone