January 30th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
It’s amazing how many people complain about the hardware specs, but forget about the software. The iPad has the most important feature of all: usability. Remember mobile internet before the iPhone? Nobody used it. Then along came the iPhone: technically nothing new: touch screens existed before, mobile browsers existed before. But only the usability of [...]
January 27th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
The video on the iPad page more or less proofs it’s purpuse: it’s THE couch device. Even the basic version seems good enough for most purposes: internet surfing, watching video, reading books and magazines, looking at your pictures. I bet soon every member of your family will have his or her own iPad: we want [...]
January 27th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
Newspapers are looking to the ipad/islate/itablet to save their business, assuming that they can just copy their paper business to the tablet. Sell editions or subscription so customers can read their newspaper on the tablet. However, every new technology starts with copying existing concepts. Initially on the web we saw copies of concepts that already [...]
January 26th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
It’s funny to see that for some companies it’s not really clear who their customers are: are readers the customers of newspapers, and are newspapers providing them a services by selling them news? Or are advertisers the customers and are newspapers in the business of selling attention to the advertisers? Both can work, but it [...]
January 26th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Most people think good usability is not very important for internal IT systems: you can train the users and write manuals to compensate for bad usability. Also, your internal users have no choice, so they’re not going to go to the competition if your IT system is hard to use. A story in webwereld shows [...]
January 8th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in oss, software development
Use the following to configure git to use diffmerge for diffing and merging files: The following will show diffmerge with the two versions of myfile.java side by side:
January 5th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, mobile, oss, web
Google used to be a search company making profit on adds. Today’s release of the Nexus One ‘superphone’ illustrates that Google is turning into the next Microsoft: a supplier of software platforms and applications. The Nexus One isn’t a phone, it’s a device to access the web. It’s just another Operating System to use applictions, [...]
January 4th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
A lot has been written about tablets, iTablet, iSlate, etc, but most focus on if we need one (we’ll find a need), what name it will have (who cares) and what specs it will have (every year a bit better). Only a few articles seem to focus on the bigger picture. Today’s New York Time [...]
