* The AIO experiment is happening. \u00a0There\u2019s going to be a month at $45 with unlimited talk and text and 2.5 GB of LTE data throttled at 8 Mbps, and we\u2019re going to see if it makes a difference. \u00a0There\u2019s also a 703 number associated with it\u2026of which more later.<\/p>\n
* Samsung got dinged for what is basically lagniappe, a hundred million dollars or so for violating some Apple patents. \u00a0Forgiveness is better than permission – Samsung, more than any other Android vendor, ripped off the Apple UX wholesale and for their trouble got a commanding share of the Android market. \u00a0Shameless. \u00a0Any idiot can look and see what happened – the packaging changed, the power adapter changed, the colors of icons were the same – but they\u2019re pretty much going to skate with it. \u00a0Microsoft managed to make a touch UI that looks nothing like iOS. \u00a0That\u2019s actual innovation. \u00a0Samsung just pauses every couple of years to try to wash the slime off.<\/p>\n
* Once again, a quick review of my correspondents shows that basically everyone I text with is on an iPhone. \u00a0It\u2019s going to be tricky to move off. \u00a0The things that the iPhone is indispensable on for me are text messages, email and media content – but maybe toting the iPad will help with that.<\/p>\n
* I still haven\u2019t seen an episode of Silicon Valley since the first one. I need to find the time and make the time, but for some reason my heart\u2019s not in it. \u00a0I wonder if that\u2019s a result of looking at the real thing all around me. Sometimes I wonder if the thing you have to come to grips with when you stop being Nuke and start being Crash is that you have to accept that 21 days in the majors was all that was going to happen, and that at the end of the day you\u2019re a really good triple-A player. \u00a0But like I say\u2026of which more later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
* The AIO experiment is happening. \u00a0There\u2019s going to be a month at $45 with unlimited talk and text and 2.5 GB of LTE data throttled at 8 Mbps, and we\u2019re going to see if it makes a difference. \u00a0There\u2019s also a 703 number associated with it\u2026of which more later. * Samsung got dinged for … <\/p>\n