I’m at a loss for words. Thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.
The only thing I can say is that he left one hell of a legacy that will outlive us all. His hard work and dedication will serve as an example of how to achieve something great.
If every corporate CEO was more like Steve, if they all cared as much about the end result, if they were as involved in their products as Steve was, the world would be a much better place, of that I am convinced.
RIP Steve.
So fake games have become fairly prominent in Android’s App Store.
This is debated to death, but here’s my take:
Apple has their sandbox. As a developer, if you piss in it, you get kicked out. End of story. As a user, if you don’t like that policy, find another sandbox to play in. But don’t be surprised when you’re building a sandcastle and find a large pile of shit buried just beneath the surface.
Its just funny how every time there is a new scam, this debate rises again. The iPhone fanboys roll in and troll about how awesome it is they can live life free (for the most part) of true scams, and the Android fanboys all scream (in one voice) “But at least we’re OPEN!”, proving over and over again that they really don’t understand what “open” means.
Especially on Verizon:
Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
My favorite part:
A friend of mine has a Nexus S and it is a pleasure to use. The UI is elegant and functional. The battery lasts for days. In short, it is everything that the Charge wasn’t. I’d love to see Google somehow mandate the stock Android experience on all phones, or somehow rigorously test all new phones before they could be launched. Why not standardize and mandate one or two excellent cameras, and then open source the drivers? Why not certify and approve a few of the best components and then place some sort of “premium Android experience” certification label on phones that pass tests and use components approved by Google? Right now it’s a crapshoot out there when you want a new Android phone, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
Let me excerpt that a little more clearly:
I’d love to see Google somehow mandate the stock Android experience on all phones, or somehow rigorously test all new phones before they could be launched.
You mean the way Apple mandates and regulates the entire end-to-end experience for iPhone users?
Not for nothing, but I’m slowly coming to the sad realization that my days as a self-declared Blackberry fanboy are numbered. I came to the party riding an Blackberry Curve 8310 and I’ll most likely be leaving it on a Bold 9700. Nothing rivals the build quality of RIM’s finer hardware, save for maybe the products designed in Cupertino. The experience of their keyboard is perfect, and gets better with every revision. My 9700 has never been short on horsepower, it can be quite snappy when the software takes proper advantage of the hardware; but that’s where everything breaks down.
So unless we somehow see a miracle pulled off, and RIM releases the Bold 9900 running Windows Phone 7, I’m probably going to end up with an iPhone 4Gs™ or iPhone [Next]. I’m going to miss my hardware keyboard, and I’m going to bitch about it every time I am forced to type an email, but I’ll enjoy being able to run apps that don’t suck, have more than 256MB of space for apps, email, contacts, etc, and generally having a more pleasant experience.