Topher Allan

The X-Pro1 lacks the Leica trademark rounded sides, so really it looks less like a Leica than any other rangefinder camera I’ve seen.

If you want a camera that “looks like a Leica”, you have to go Soviet Ukrainian:

I know it’s already been said, but this is just wrong. Apps scale to a new resolution when the device is rotated, or when you’re on a call or using tethering (where you lose a few pixels from the top of the screen).

A lot of developers will hardcode certain things, such as custom textures, and get away with it because there are only a finite number of resolutions. But by no means is ‘every iOS app hardcoded’.

Remember that iOS by-and-large uses the same graphical toolkit as OS X, which supports scaling by necessity.

assuming the signal is digital

The dock connector’s audio line-out is analogue.

The splitting of the data into audio, video and data would be done by the device on the end of the cable.

This would entail a huge increase in complexity and cost over current audio accessories, most of which merely amplify the audio line-out, for very little benefit. No thank you.

Once again the conservative sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

I looked up the specs for the automatic version of my car. It was heavier, had a lower top speed, was slower from 0 to 60 mph, and was less economical.

In America, where a 2.0 ℓ engine is considered small, these differences would be fairly insignificant.

My car has a 1.5 ℓ engine, which I think is the largest petrol engine you can get with that model – I don’t think there’s a hot hatch version. So these small differences matter.

The other crucial difference is that in the UK, you have to go out of your way to get lessons and take your test in an automatic car. The vast majority of drivers learn in a manual. So when it comes time to buy a car, and the manual version is cheaper, getting an automatic doesn’t make sense.

How many of these manufacturers actually claimed that their phones were ‘launching’ at MWC?

A lot of people seem to be using the word ‘launch’ when what they mean is ‘announcement’, and I’d like to know where that’s coming from.

Analogy: if you’re ‘launching’ a rocket on the 27th of April, you’d expect it to leave the ground on that date. What you wouldn’t expect is the announcement of a lift-off on an unspecified future date.

That hasn’t been true for a while now.

You can get Podcaster from the App Store. Apple previously banned it from the store for violating this policy.

You can get different browsers from the App Store. Opera Mini even uses its own rendering engine.

Sparrow has just come out, so you can now get a 3rd party email client from the App Store.