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Like me, when you hold your shiny iPhone in your hand, you’re probably thinking the same thing. “Yes, it’s lovely, shiny and a testament to the best marriage of industrial design and technology I could ever imagine… but I wish I had an old-fashioned telephone handset to dock the iPhone into.”
Just doing a little light reading over brekkie and – yet again – there’s a story in the “geek press” about the record companies and publishers in the US doing all they can to protect their out-dated business model.
Just a short test post loyal reader. Thought I ought to try out the WordPress app for my iPhone.
I tend to be very 2009 and use my laptop to write my posts, so thought I’d see how the iPhone fared.
Erm. It’s a mixed bag. Sitting on a bench enjoying the morning sun whilst I write is a pleasant change. But, as a proficient typist who tends to “just write” then edit later, I’m not sure if iPhone blogging is suitable for anything other than short and sweet posts.
“Eye of the tiger”, the Rocky classic by Survivor, played by a bunch of guys using nothing but iPads as musical instruments… oh, and occasionally spinning on their heads.
In the red corner we have Apple. Champions of industrial design. Noted control freaks. And, frankly, one of the few companies pushing the boundaries in consumer technology at the moment.
In the blue corner we have Adobe. The people who brought you Photoshop, Illustrator and, of course, Flash. Continue reading...
“I love this — papercraft artist Jay Hauf has constructed a little papercraft Steve Jobs cutout. Over on his Flickr account, he’s posted a picture that you can print out, cut out, and then fold up into the form of our favorite CEO. The little figure even comes with a paper iPhone, though I guess if you want (and if you’re a little skilled with Photoshop), you could put an iPad or another Apple product in there.”
If you want your own paper-based CEO (and, frankly, who wouldn’t?), then visit Flickr.