Ten Years
Ten Years by Brett Jordan. (via)
Austin Seraphin describes his first week with the iPhone:
Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.
iPhone compass dance
Today i saw a stranger do the iPhone compass calibration dance in public for the first time. His technique was very distinct from mine. I wonder if this will become a familiar sight in the streets. If i didn’t have an iPhone, i probably wouldn’t have noticed.
Piczle Lines post-mortem is a great summary by Score Studios on what went well and what didn’t in the development of their game.
iPhone 4 first impressions
I’ve had a new iPhone 4 for about a week now. Aside from being the best phone i’ve ever laid hands on and quite possibly being the best phone you can buy right now (despite its minor flaws), two small annoyances strike me as a regression compared to the old 3G and 3GS. Both are related to the physical shape of the device:
- Because of its harder edges and probably also because of its reduced thickness, it doesn’t lie as comfortably in the hand.
- Because of its symmetrical shape its pretty much impossible to tell apart front- and backside by touch alone. With the 3GS i always knew which side the screen was on when pulling it out of a pocket. With the iPhone 4 i have no idea and have to spend a splitsecond to figure it out. I find this surprisingly annoying.
