Ina Fried on ReCode: BlackBerry said Wednesda-y that it will stop internal development of smartphones, relying on partners for any future hardware efforts. Everybody saw this coming, but that doesn’t make it less painful. Chen has made the right decisions most of the time, and when they weren’t right, they were inevitable. It’s difficult to …
Month: September 2016
It doesn’t happen that much in technology, but some articles become more real and truthful as time goes by. It’s certainly the case in ‘Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won’t Get A Choice‘, where the author urges the user to use Mozilla’s browser: So if you want an Internet — which means, in many ways, …
Google today tweeted out an indication that it will unveil new devices on October 4. People have been expecting Google to at least show new mobile devices on that date, and the smartphone-shaped outline in the tweet confirms it. A lot of rumors have been published on different media about the upcoming new smartphones from …
The Verge has a good review of the Apple Watch Series 2, but everything seems to be left over when you read the first line of that text: Let’s call it what it is: a fitness tracker. That’s almost exactly what the Apple Watch is. I would say it’s what it wants to be first, …
That’s what most of the reviewers seem to think about the new iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, which has good features but nothing that could really justify leaving a perfectly fine iPhone 6s/Plus for these. The differences are clearly there for iPhone 6/Plus users, but everyone seems to be not that convinced to …
Much has been said about the removal of the headphone jack in the new iPhone 7/Plus, and John Gruber has added is own commentary: Choosing to do what you *know* will be unpopular in the short run but you *believe* will prove correct in the long run takes courage. The problem with Gruber argument is …
Julia Love for Reuters: Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company’s hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the matter said. It’s nice to be part of a dream, but …