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Hmmm, I think I gotta retract my statement. I spotted the front shot of the console, lying horizontally, and it looks better. Not by much mind you – I still find it too blocky, but that slant gives it a bit of needed sleekness. Not sure it’s necessarily better than xbox 1 but at least it’s on par, and w/ the price difference I’m pretty sure which one I’ll be buying come holidays.

8 days ago on Sony unveils PlayStation 4 hardware at E3 conference

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Completely disagree. The WP screen, while ugly is at least useful – contact/album photos, message count, article titles, etc. The Android screen is beautifully minimalistic – and that is something some folks love, and if you want it more informative like WP screen, it’s easy to do – you have the control.

The iPhone screen looks like something a 1st year design student (and not the one at the top of the class) created in windows paint and there’s not much you can do about it other than change the wallpaper.

8 days ago on The design of iOS 7: simply confusing 1 recommend

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Really? I find it ugly. I wasn’t a big fan of xbone but this is like they tried on purpose to make it completely undesirable. Ugh!

8 days ago on Sony unveils PlayStation 4 hardware at E3 conference 1 reply 1 recommend

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I know man, I know! I’m not a huge Apple fan but if there’s something I always thought they were good at is design (even despite all the leather and brush metal and stuff), but this was just so disappointing. I mean, I’m not even upset, I’m just straight up disappointed. Is it that Ive comes from hardware design – that must be it, no? IDK, this is just terrible UI on so many levels, and such amateurish mistakes. Oi vey!

9 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 1 reply 3 recommends

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How hard is it to stream in a more universal format?

9 days ago on Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote will be streamed live 1 reply 1 recommend

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Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I can understand giving it a quick test with rMBP but it’s not a surprise this thing can’t handle it. Current mobile GPUs weren’t designed to push 4K monitors. This monitor is intended for professionals w/ powerful desktop stations, or for gamers. And don’t be counting on Haswell to help you much – maybe for regular desktop stuff and browser but I expect it to start lagging as soon as you lunch After Effects or Lightroom, and forget about gaming w/o a discreet graphics card.

15 days ago on Asus' $4,000 4K monitor goes on sale this month, pushes Retina MacBook to its breaking point 3 recommends

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“We don’t have a great profit margin, I’ll be candid about it. But is it fucking cool? Yeah, it is.”
Gotta love that, that’s a CEO after my own heart. I just wish I had more money so I could get the Blade – the 14 inch unit looks mighty tempting.

“Tan’s complaint that HP, Dell, and other PC rivals are no longer innovating isn’t entirely fair. Many PC makers follow Apple’s aesthetic lead.”
Ummm, I would agree that at least some PC manufacturers are starting to innovate more (HP isn’t one of them though) but calling “copying Apple” innovation is pushing it.

16 days ago on Razer's outspoken CEO slams HP and Dell, says he 'loves Apple'

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Holy crap I want!

On the ASUS site they provide a bit of details about the panel (IGZO) – 176-degree wide viewing angles on both vertical and horizontal planes, 350cd/m² brightness rating and 8ms gray-to-gray response time. (BTW, The Verge, how’s about providing that info in the article – seeing how most users of this site are somewhat on the geeky side and would appreciate such info?) So, in any case, it looks comparable to a medium quality IPS panel – same-ish viewing angles (I think IPS is typically 178), a bit weaker on brightness than top models (400-450 is more typical I think) and a bit slower in response in comparison to top models (again, I think latest IPS usually hover in the 4-6ms range). With that being said, does anyone know how these IGZO panels compare to IPS? Colour reproduction, colour range, etc.? Because as much as the resolution and size are tempting I still want a high quality image.

19 days ago on Asus will release a 4K 31.5-inch monitor in the US this June 1 reply

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Metro is not simply “flat ui design”. Flat design has existed for much longer than metro, what the heck do you think street signs are? And metro is not just a grid layout either – those have existed for much longer as well – see the periodic table. There are many more subtleties to metro that make it unique and interesting, although I find it a bit boring at the end of the day. Play Store doing flat design is not ripping off metro in the slightest, especially considering it stems from Android’s new UI direction that have started with Honeycomb, matured with Ice Cream Sandwich and has been more or less finalized with Jelly Bean.

There are certainly folks that auto-hate metro just ‘cause it’s MS, but metro is not without its issues and MS has a tendency to just slap it on any screen with nary a modification despite the fact that sometimes a layout has to be tweaked when moving from smartphone screen to desktop monitor, to TV. Luckily they’ve been learning a bit and you can see that with the UI tweaks they’re doing w/ 8.1. However, some of the UI they showed at the Xbone presentation is just bad UI, metro or not. Then again what Google did with the Google TV so far hasn’t been that great either.

19 days ago on Microsoft defends the look of the Xbox One 2 recommends

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If it’s a critical bug and is being actively exploited then Microsoft needs to be on it like white on rice yesterday. So all the power to Google for lighting fire under Microsoft’s ass. And if MS can’t fix it in 7 days, well they better hire somebody else.

20 days ago on Despite opposition, Google will make critical security exploits public after seven days