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Haha, this ad’s about as subtle as Spielberg’s War Horse. Poetry, artistry, elegance, simplicity … all gone wrong. A generic ad campaign is what it is.

1 day ago on Apple's new iPhone 5 ad 'Music Every Day' celebrates life with moving melody

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Samsung ships but may not have sold.
Apple sells but may not have shipped.

2 days ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million units shipped, new colors coming this summer 1 recommend

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Oh, I know he put them in order, it’s just that he just the “unordered list” tag. Go figure.

2 days ago on Programmer shuns images, recreates intricate London subway map from pure web code

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Stop the presses! Rumors, speculation and inverse fanboyism leads to confusion!

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 3 recommends

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Which are of course unordered … you just randomly skip between stations, that would be fun. And what about split lines and shared stations? If you’re not going to use html for what it was intended for, just post a gif.

3 days ago on Programmer shuns images, recreates intricate London subway map from pure web code 2 replies 4 recommends

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An abomination of html/css is what it is, regardless of how much time went into the project. Just use canvas if you want to draw a map like this, equally inaccessible and at least it’s a lot quicker.

Would’ve been impressed if the html beneath it had made semantic sense though.

3 days ago on Programmer shuns images, recreates intricate London subway map from pure web code 5 replies 9 recommends

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I hope we’ll still be able to play games on them. So much cruft, so little attention for core functionality. Consoles may be the next phones. Updates all around, but phone quality still sucks balls anno 2013.

4 days ago on Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud

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Then again, these fake-ish html5 scores say very little about stability. When something worked in Opera you were pretty sure it was safe to ues, when something works in WebKit today it could very well be broken tomorrow. Even silly CSS2.1 stuff.

4 days ago on Opera for Android exits beta, ready to take on Chrome

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Next step: global releases! The world outside USA thanks you.

5 days ago on Showing Hollywood the way: how 'Upstream Color' hit iTunes without leaving theaters 1 reply

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I like lists of watched film.
I like lists of owned films even better. Sometimes I’m at a brick & mortar shop and can’t remember if I have a film on DVD.

I don’t like the entire social mumbo jumbo surrounding it though. I don’t care what friends are watching, nor do I need automatic recommendations. I have videobrary on WP8 (which has a nice live tile so I get some extra poster love too on my homescreen). Suits my needs perfectly.

I guess the pull quote sums this app up nicely though. Who cares about functionality when you have great UX right … hah.

9 days ago on Limelight: an app to catalog your favorite movies, inspired by Delicious Library

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Try scrolling in IE10. So many generations ahead of both it’s not even funny anymore.

11 days ago on Apple to add Galaxy S4 to second Samsung patent infringement lawsuit 1 recommend

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Runs smoother, boots faster and it’s more stable than Win7. Plus the search is a whole lot easier.

There you go.

14 days ago on Microsoft responds to Windows 8 criticism, defends upcoming changes as 'a good thing' 2 replies 3 recommends

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Nope, it’s Chinese.

16 days ago on Microsoft's crazy Windows 8 video campaign swaps watermelons for features 1 reply 4 recommends

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So one dude says something about Chinese researchers and this is your headline? Come on …

22 days ago on Chinese researchers branded 'appallingly irresponsible' over creation of new lethal flu strains 2 replies 4 recommends

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Horrible! But then again, who’s leading the smartphone market? Yeah, Samsung clearly doesn’t know what it is doing.

26 days ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 launch party in India features terrible 'Gangnam Style' remake

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Except I do and I don’t care for stupid in-between software (well, I kinda do care because it’s a nuisance) . I don’t want to be the victim of other people’s stupidity.

26 days ago on iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut 1 recommend

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but once upon a time iTunes was a far superior option to most other music-management players

Is this The Onion? iTunes has always been a horrible piece of garbage. Even when I owned an iPod I didn’t use it for syncing (probably because I never synced my music collection with my iPod, no way you could easily manage more than a 1000 albums on that thing). As a player it was even worse. I believe that until a while ago the only way to go through a playlist randomly was to randomize the actual playlist :D

As for usability, nothing beats throwing around a folder in your File Explorer. Luckily phones these days let you do that again (at least my Lumia 920) does, if extra software is needed to come between me and my player/phone I’m out.

27 days ago on iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut 1 reply 1 recommend