Are AppStore filters down?

The Shadow Scholar – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education You grow more and more stupid, not because we don’t know, but because we don’t care. Read on. (via Instapaper)

The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts) (Royal Pingdom) This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users. Romania comes the 4th. Too bad they don’t have the report on Internet penetration… (via Instapaper)

]

I was watching the web yesterday crunching Samsung Tab and I thought it’s good to remember several things regarding reviews and first impressions: First and most important – all evolved OS devices are behaving increasingly worse in time. Mainly because of user intervention and second because of lots of apps that tend to clutter and kill the system. I have never seen a review of a device having 50 apps installed and being benchmarked after 8 heavy usage hours from boot.

Isn’t it “Spore”, from EA Games? It really looks like Spore, moves like Spore, but it’s not Spore!… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/D3qUfe2mU1U/

Ars Technica: Apple purposely transformed older iPhones into iBricks by upgrading to iOS 4: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/lawsuit-apple-turned-iphone-3gs-into-ibricks-to-boost-iphone-4.ars Right. This could be named “forced no back compatibility”, as opposed to “forced back compatibility” of which we already know it’s a disaster (see Symbian or Windows). Apple might be forced to allow customers to downgrade their iBricks to iOS 3.x, and this could be the legal way of solving the issue. But not necessarily the appropriate one.

Curation. If there is only one app that slips thru Apple’s “curating” filters, then the situation becomes disastrous: your hands are tied, anyway, so you’ll end up looking at a huge battery drainage or your device becoming irresponsive.

“When I’ve got nothing to do, I just wanna look into my phone and get something to do. With it, not with another person. Calling is boring, I just want any nice bullshit app to keep me unfocused from my concerns”. So Android is not ready yet for the masses. It has to look much nicer, move much quicker and swap apps much faster, even if it’s only a fart app that you’re playing with.

From Twitter: Roger Ebert: Playboy may have had a greater influence on our society than any other magazine. http://journ.us/dfOMC8 I’m afraid it’s a bit more: Playboy may have set some unnecessary and sterile social values, focusing everybody on female body and sex. I’m not arguing against women or their beauty, but against making bodies and sex, social values. It’s like prolonging the ’70s without their joints… I’ve been watching a Discovery documentary about mothers making their children sexy, in a “How to make my 6 year daughter so sexy that she can pass as a young woman while she’s still chewing her gums” manner… Of course, they’re not allowed to show their kids naked, but everything else is just as in any Miss World contest.

Multiple jpg Tumblr post after reset

Gizmodo looked into The Register who looked into The Nielsen Comapany who published here, on October 21st, a report showing more than 30% of total iPad users have never downloaded any app in their iPad. Of course it looked funny, but hey, who knows how is Apple really counting its supplies and sales… Today Nielsen came with an update, saying they’ve messed up the figures, it’s actually only 9% that never downloaded an app into their iPad.

If somebody can put this in AppStore, then it’s a free store. Really! I’m still thinking how’s that better than a fart-app…

WP7 I don’t know what to say… is this the GUI everybody hoped for?!

Again, All Phone Tracker is the first app in Entertainment for Romania AppStore, although it ain’t got more than 1 (one) star rates. What’s wrong with the scoring, guys?!

Alistair Croll (@acroll) 10/20/10 0:51 Enterprises: when it comes to clouds, the genie is out of the bottle. Stop looking for a cork, and start deciding what to wish for. #ECS

Why Britain is in deep doo-doo – very interesting comment AnandaY “What we are seing now is the case of corporate Britain and USA paying the price of its greed. How so? Well, during the last 10 years, did a single day go buy without news about company A moving production abroad to ‘cut costs’, company B outsourcing the entire IT department etc. These things have a nasty habit of catching up with you after a while.

All Phone Tracker GPS seems to be a bad joke

Swearch.me

Oxymoron?

Check out this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yj-Rt9BY0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

In bureaucracies many people have the authority to say no, not the authority to say yes. John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac (via Instapaper)

John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac User experience seems to be and has been Jobs main concern, from one end to another. (via Instapaper)