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Marc Cannava // A technologist living in the chilly Northeast.
This is a very, very useful tool, especially if it's being kept up-to-date. It's currently a publicly-available Google Docs spreadsheet, which implies that it is a dynamic document being kept current. I took a quick look through it, and it seems pretty complete.
For anyone who tracks technology in general, mobility specifically, and Android as a specialty (me!), this is invaluable!
Very useful chart. The only major device missing on this list is the Sprint/HTC EVO 4G.
You want it, you got it -- a monster Verizon spec comparison between the original Motorola Droid, Droid 2, Droid Incredible and Droid X. Ease on past the break for the whole thing. And be sure to wait 15 minutes before swimming.
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As recently announced by Engadget, Apple is holding a press conference this Friday, presumably to deal head-on with the iPhone 4 antenna issues that refuse to die.
(For the record, I have an iPhone 4 and yes, I can easily reproduce the "death grip" on mine, and I bought my $30 bumper to mitigate the issue).
So without further delay, here are my predictions for what I think will happen, in order of probability:
100%:
95%:
50%:
25%:
5%:
1%:
Well this was annoying..
A while back, I set up GMail to auto-pull mail from my old MobileMe account, setting it up as an automatic POP retrieval in settings. This worked fine, and I'd see the few remaining MobileMe mails showing up in a GMail tag automatically. Worked well.
After a while, due to problems getting GMail to sync with my iPhone and iPad properly (another adventure best saved for a later rant), I decided to switch back to using MobileMe (for mail, anyway), and deleted the auto-pull settings in GMail.
Thus, as of last night, there was and currently is no account listed in my Settings page for POP retrieval.
Many questions in my head:
I can answer #3: Change the password on my MobileMe account. And change all the devices that sync to it. A pain, and something I shouldn't have to do if GMail wasn't storing my credentials without my permission.
So a few days ago I posted something about how many touchpoints a Surface has (as compared to an iPad)?
Check this out. Unlimited touchpoints. Gesture support.
Surface? You've met your match. :-)
I wondered, myself, what the maximum number of touch points is on the iPad. 10 (+1) is actually a pretty logical number. We're doing some work in my job with Microsoft Surface tables, I'll have to compare and see how many it tracks.
In case you ever wonder what these messages in system.log mean:
Apr 2 13:12:34 mac com.apple.backupd[20052]: Warning: Destination /Volumes/Machine does not support Server Reply Cache
Apr 2 13:12:34 mac com.apple.backupd[20052]: Warning: Destination /Volumes/Machine does not support TM Lock Stealing
The OS X client correctly reports here, that the Netatalk AFP server is missing two AFP features:
I was seeing this in my log when I switched Time Machine from a Time Capsule to a ReadyNAS to store my backups. This article explains what they mean and why you should -- or shouldn't -- be concerned.
The truth is that it’s Adobe’s fault there’s no Flash on the majority of mobiles, because the company was completely happy just misleading the world of pundits while talking instead of doing. Well it’s not 2007 anymore, it’s 2010, and that’s three years of work that everyone else has put into HTML5.
Seriously. I wondered when someone was going to bring up this obvious point. Everyone says Apple is being obstructionist in their strategy to ignore Flash on the iPhone (and, now, iPad), but the fact is, there was not, and still is no decent mobile version of Flash that Apple could have picked to run on the iPhone. And we still have yet to see a shipping mobile device that *can* do Flash, and we don't even know how compatible those devices will be with "desktop" Flash.
In short -- Sure, Apple's no saint. But Adobe is just as much to blame in this whole Flash mess.
