If we ever need to answer the brief "if apple made a bike-share system"...

“The value goes to where the knowledge is.”

From "location-aware" to "location-specific." Note restaurant wait time and menu-on-personal-device use cases.

Present w/o further comment...except for a big fat "Sigh."

AWESOME news and, yes, I find the logic utterly convincing. To be honest, this looks a lot more like what I was wishing for prior to June '07.

Oh RIVINGTON, I hardly knew ye.

So, so good.

Via JL Fréchin. This will blow the dam wide open.

Per my conversation with Jack Qiu in Brisbane.

This is a point I'm constantly trying to make at work, to no avail. The guy is a little tendentious in places, but hits the nail on the head over and over again. Sigh.

Famous last words: "[Sony] is not worried that Apple’s device will take over their core audience. 'At the end of the day, you buy the iPhone to make calls,' he said. 'And you buy the PSP to play games.' Cammie Dunaway, vice president for sales and marketing for Nintendo: 'No one can match our years of experience in the hand-held market and the subscriber base we’ve built up over the last 20 years.'" I'm sure Chrysler and GM expressed similar sentiments about Toyota.

I happen to feel this prototype UI looks better than what they shipped with. : . )

Hey, look: geniuses steal. The point isn't that Ive's designs are derivative of Dieter Rams'. The point is that the Apple pieces feel every bit as organic and proper to their function as the Braun - and I bet *that* took some doing. Via Enrique's Twitter.

Verrrrrry innnnnnteresting.

The Grey Lady discovers the world of third-party applications and services for mobile devices. One mobile player, in particular, is conspicuously absent. I wonder why. Sigh.

Piquant look at Nokia's retail experience vs. Apple's, toe-to-toe across Regent St.

I smell Dynabook.

"If you change the shape and concept of something enough, it ceases to be that thing. It becomes a new thing, or a descendant of that earlier thing. But it’s no longer the original thing, and you can’t judge it on the same yardstick."

Some interesting tactical/logistical insight here.

Tufte on display resolution and informational density.

Dieter Rams looks like Ray Manzarek would have, had he been born beautiful.

I'll spring for this, and then of course iPhone 2.0 will hit the streets a week later with GPS built in. Via Coates.

God, I admire Matt's restraint. In similar circumstances, I have no doubt I'd have launched on warning. Good to see him writing again, too.

Kills me to say it, but they're looking mighty lost in Cupertino just now. Recent Apple Web and device UI decisions do *not* bode well for the future.

Some important stuff here about the limitations of experience design...and an implicit argument for open systems.

Warning: THIS GUY'S AN IDIOT. ("[B]oth phones have powerful brands - Prada is very powerful in Europe"!)