July 9, 2007
Engadget just posted the second part of my look at the iPhone’s keyboard from the angle of suitability to task. With all the attention around the iPhone and it’s well-received if sometimes inefficient user interface, I have to wonder how the folks at Microsoft feel. Few if any companies have championed so many pen computing initiatives (Pocket PC, Tablet PC, Windows Mobile, UMPC) through the years and yet Microsoft. But now the company has had its thunder stolen by Apple as it failed to capture literally what Bill Gates articulated as Microsoft’s guiding vision throughout the ’90s, the notion of information at your fingertips In retrospect, it looiks like touch was right. It was the pen that was wrong.
July 2, 2007
Call it “big dog” syndrome. Engadget picks up on the NY Times report that Universal is playing hardball with Apple on its iTunes contact. This is simply the latest in a line of Vivendi’s maverick moves, such as insisting on revenue sharing with Microsoft for the Zune (perhaps what it is pushing for with Apple?) and being the only major studio to release movies exclusively in HD-DVD.
