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Who needs native UI elements? Let’s vomit their non-native exact equivalents all over the place instead! Oh, and more toolbars! I remember those were pretty cool in the 90s…

Yahoo has lost it.

Investors don’t judge the innovation by themselves – they are not experts at that. Instead, they try to capture the general sentiment they see being expressed. The general sentiment expressed was mixed, and it needed to be exuberant for investors to think RIM had a shot at recovery.

Shareholders have all the power and authority of a wet noodle. Executives are fired when the Board does not want to lose too much face. Or from internal politicking.

This just went from simply being tacky to being tacky and pathetic, given where RIM stands right now and how it got there.

No, Microsoft just likes long names. It will be Zune Music Pass for Windows Live 8 Media Center Edition soon.

He is not right about this. To me, a good interface is one that disappears into the background and you forget is even there. Android and iOS can be made to do this rather well. Metro as a design language, however, looks and feels like a high-end design magazine – it’s beautiful, but it calls attention to itself rather than being transparent. It’s so minimal that you always have to devote some attention to operating it as opposed to functioning on ‘chunking’ or ‘muscle memory’.

There is a reason why Metro has been so polarising, and it is not blind anti-Microsoft bias (or unconditional Microsoft love). I suspect the people who dislike it reason similarly to the way I do. The people who like it are not stupid or crazy, but must have some different way thinking/interacting (like verbal thinkers versus visual thinkers). Maybe they always think about all interfaces anyway? I have not yet seen a satisfactory answer (though I’m certain there is one), so I welcome feedback…

Read the “mass success” part. If you’re in the consumer electronics space and introduce a new technology and no one wants to use it, then you have not figured out how to make it deliver value. Anyone can throw a bunch of experimental components together. Think of it this way – the best smartphones pre-iPhone 4 all had much lower PPIs than the best smartphones today. Just like the best smartphones pre-iPhone all looked a lot different from how they look today. On the other hand, there were both high PPI phones and 720p screens pre Galaxy Nexus. So what was the innovation? The ability to solve 720/316/9*16 ?

Mind you, the iPhone screen is 3:2 – it’s the iPad that is 4:3.

I’d gladly have 30% of the car’s price go to its self-driving system. Freeing up all of my travel time for other activities would be worth at least that much to me.

S&P should downgrade Microsoft to junk status.

They just downgraded your comment to junk status.

The 4.65" 720p display on my Galaxy Nexus works just fine, and quite roomy. That’s what I prefer. First 720p on a mobile phone — innovation I like.

Innovation is being the first to make a mass success out of something fundamentally different from prior mass successes. Neither a 5" screen nor a 720p resolution, nor a 316 PPI (18 months after the retina) really qualify.