January 2012
1 post
“Many of my favorite mobile apps are immobile. I can’t take them with me.”
– Nick Bradbury: Immobile Apps
December 2011
7 posts
"Over The Next Few Weeks, We'll Figure It Out." →
Finally something from MG, about Android, that I agree with. Show us some updates!!
parislemon:
“Google’s Android Update Alliance is already dead,” reports Jamie Lendino for PCMag.com.
Shocking…
…that anyone would have believed in this pipedream in the first place.
Maybe it’s a bit unfair of Lendino to call the Alliance “dead” — but it’s hard to figure out what else he should say. He talked...
“As with any object-based coding method, the purpose of OOCSS is to encourage...”
– An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) - Smashing Coding
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Web vs Native Apps (on Android)
I few weeks months ago I committed to using mobile web applications (where available) on my phone. I have both enjoyed, and been extremely frustrated using mobile web experiences (@lukew) vs their native counterparts. In most cases I enjoy the mobile web experience more, they seem to be updated more frequently and keep consistent with the style of the standard desktop web version. At the same...
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Android App Fragmentation Rant
Microsoft recently released their Halo Waypoint app for Android* and iOS devices. You’ll notice the asterisk there on Android. The app was released yes, but only works on a handful of devices. The description of the app, in the Android Market, read (before recently being updated, I can only assume after numerous complaints) “compatible with Android 2.2+”, which I took to mean,...
November 2011
3 posts
Uses of Twine →
Awesome ideas.
“But that distinction is ultimately irrelevant. The underlying vulnerabilities...”
– The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine
Amazing how this flew under the radar and has all but fizzled out. I like the potential future, but I don’t think it can go anywhere without physical collateral backing it up (at least not yet.)
Redux
Giving tumblr a second try.