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Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89 26 Jun 2013 | 01:31 am
David Lowery’s "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89" article has been picked up over and over and over, including by very respectable folks, often without comment. ...
Quantifying the Impending iOS 6 Maps Backlash 19 Sep 2012 | 04:15 pm
Apple’s new Maps app is the very first item on their list of major new features in iOS 6, but for many iPhone and iPad users around the world those new maps are going to be a major disappointment. In...
Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? 12 May 2012 | 07:51 am
I’ve written an article with associated charts for Technology Review, tracking the adoption rate of mobile phones and their inevitable replacement, smart phones, relative to other similar technologies...
Daisey's Upcoming Venues All Defend Him 22 Mar 2012 | 08:51 am
As is now well known, Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” has been performed since 2010 and covered by countless media outlets since, including This American Life which then retrac...
Five Problems For Tesla Motors 29 Feb 2012 | 12:23 pm
Tesla Motors has responded to my “It’s a Brick” post with a blog post of their own, “Plug It In”. I’m genuinely very glad to hear that the Model S and Model X are apparently going to be substantially ...
“It’s A Brick” – Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem 22 Feb 2012 | 12:04 pm
Tesla Motors’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can lar...
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support 27 Oct 2011 | 05:25 pm
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently:...
Roboto vs. Helvetica 19 Oct 2011 | 05:43 pm
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had...
Google's Management Doesn't Use Google+ 4 Oct 2011 | 11:48 pm
Management caring deeply about their company’s products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day...
October 20, 2011: Android's 1 Million Device D-Day 4 Oct 2011 | 12:28 am
“There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w” Andy Rubin June 28, 2011 By that measure, there should now be over 900,000 Android activations per day a...
