I’m not going to buy the Kindle 2

Yes, I’m not going to buy it. Why? Because Amazon is making it ‘optional’ for authors to disable Text-To-Speech functionality on their books. Yes, authors, shoot yourself in the head… I’d rather buy bootleg or secondhand copies of books off the streets. Much cheaper… And I’ll ask my parrot to do the Text-To-Speech part… Read … Read more

iPhone… or do i?

Apple’s brand new ‘revolutionary’ iPhoneApple has revolutionised the phone… really? The guys at Engadget don’t seem to think so. They’ve got a long list of things that they think Apple did wrong.

We’ve all heard about the great things that the iPhone can do… now we hear about what it cant!

But first, a recap of the headlines… What Apple did right!

  1. Designed something that looks way cooler than anything else on the planet, yet…
  2. Got all of the mobile devices you would need, and bunched them into one sleek package.
  3. Gave this thing an interface that could have great potential in many different applications.
  4. Made everything upgradable simply by running everything off OS X (software is so much easier to upgrade than hardware).
  5. Made this sleek, shiny iPhone almost completely scratch proof.
  6. Gave it a display that was usable in direct sunlight

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