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Nexus One from an iPhone Developer’s Perspective

Overall, it’s just a general lack of attention to detail that defines the differences between the iPhone and the Nexus One, and that lack of attention to detail exists on both the hardware and software side. The Nexus One isn’t a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination. Had it come out three years ago, it would have been revolutionary. But you do have to train yourself to Android’s idiosyncrasies much more so than the iPhone. If you’ve never owned or used an iPhone, you’ll probably find the Nexus One to be a very adequate device and will assume that the minor annoyances are just part of owning a smart phone. If you’ve owned an iPhone for any length of time, you’ll likely feel, as I do, that it’s a rather half-baked device with some good ideas but generally weak execution.

via iPhone Development: Nexus One from an iPhone Developer’s Perspective.

How to get along with geeks: A seven-point guide

#2 You’re in the Windows or Mac camp

There’s no room for indifference when it comes to being a Mac fan or a Windows defendant. To be less biased about it, you need to be in one camp or the other. And this isn’t a battle waged only by die-hard Mac fanbois and girls – both Apple and Microsoft have run million-dollar campaigns based around the meme. (See the YouTube clip above.) It is still possible to be a Windows fan and own an iPhone, just make sure you bitch about its poor battery life. And often.

via How to get along with geeks: A seven-point guide | Article | The Punch.

Palm Pre: Two Months In

  • Copy and Paste – oh the irony. The iPhone now has superb copy and paste support, and it turns out that the Pre’s copy and paste is completely useless – time and time again I need to copy something from an email, web page, or text message. And I can’t! Also, the few times I can, only serves to show how awkward Palms copy and paste command/gestures are.

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    Some would have preferred waiting for a better implementation.

    What’s the use of features if they suck incredible amounts of arse, rendering them practically useless?

    Which iPhone RSS reader goes here?

    There’s a space on my second iPhone homescreen, and it’s just waiting for the perfect iPhone RSS reader to come along.

    For that to happen, though, two things need to happen:
    1. NewsGator (creators of Mac RSS client NewNewsWire), need to finish NNW 3.2, which brings with it support for Google Reader syncing, and
    2. I need to decide on exactly which iPhone client to use.

    Of course, I have little to no input on how the first is completed. The second choice is all mine, however, and it just so happens that I have a couple of candidates in mind…

    There’s Byline, which has already been designed for Google Reader straight out of the box. From what I’ve heard it’s not a bad client, syncing and also caching articles so I can read them without an internet connection (hardly an issue on the iPhone, but a feature nonetheless). Because it’s been built from the ground up with Google Reader compatability in mind, the idea is that I won’t have any issue Starring, Sharing, or Liking items, just like Google intended.

    The NetNewsWire client for iPhone, however, doesn’t event support Reader at this stage. Like the client on Mac which shares the same name, NNW on the iPhone is gonna be one of those “hackjobs” which have been “converted” to work with Reader, instead of being built from scratch. Can you feel the cynicism yet?

    By all means, I’ll still be using the Mac version of NNW, only because there isn’t a Mac client for Reader outside of the web interface, short of rollling your own via something like Fluid.

    Of course, the question now becomes exactly _when_ I’ll be able to migrate to Reader from whatever the hell I’m using at the moment… but that’s for another time (read that as rant), no?

    I guess for now I’ll just have to leave that spot empty.