Boy Genius Report posted this chart today as evidence that both the Kindle Fire and the Blackberry Playbook had “better” holiday sales than the iPad.
There’s so many things wrong with this chart that I hardly know where to begin. The numbers used in the chart are the % increase in web traffic, day to day. So this chart is saying that the kindle fire had 120% more web traffic on christmas morning then it did the day before, while the iPads number seems to be close to 0%.
The problem is that the kindle just came out, so its “growth” as a percentage would obviously be huge. An overly simplified example might make this even clearer. Lets say that on December 24th there 100 kindles surfing the web, while the iPad, which has been out for more than 2 years now, had 1,000,000 users browsing. If 100 people got a kindle for christmas that would lead to 100% growth, while Apple would have to sell 10,000 more ipads just to get 1% “growth”.
It reminds me of the “analytics” that Gruber talked about a lot over the holidays on Daring Fireball. In both these cases the authors of the reports deliberately distorted the information to mislead the readers. The difference is the John called them out on it while the Boy Genius Report went with the headline, “Web traffic patterns suggest Apple’s iPad was a dud this holiday season”
This is the worst kind of reporting. It makes me embarrassed to be a regular reader of the Boy Genius Report.
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I really appreciate them trying to be honest about this stuff, but somehow it still feels a bit nefarious.
But I guess advertising always does.
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“Long story short: Google wanted to put Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus — the “clean install” Android that everyone loves so much — and Verizon said “no”.
Guess who wins here? Well, the software will not be available to Verizon Galaxy Nexus users.
Verizon issues a release saying they’re not blocking it — which is likely the biggest load of bullshit ever. No, they’re not blocking it specifically, they just won’t let Google release the Galaxy Nexus if it’s anywhere to be found on the device. Nor can users download it after the fact. Why? Some hardware claim that seems to be a flat-out lie. Long story shorter: you get in bed with the devil, the devil fucks you.
Long story shortest: “open”.”
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So I recently got a new macbook air, and I set it up with iCloud. For the most part it was great but when I looked in Safari I saw this!
I’ll be the first to admit that my bookmarks were never perticularly well organized, but after I started to use iCloud betas, my bookmarks started to look like this!
Hundreds and hundreds of “untitled folder”s with nothing in them, on top of countlessly repeats of my actual folders…. ugh
I expected this kind of thing from the beta’s and hoped the public release would fix itself but, alas, no.
So I finally took the time to manually try and delete all these folders. I spent a good hour and a half on the laptop pressing the delete button as fast as I could to delete the folders one by one (shift click wouldnt work).
Finally I got through it and I felt so proud of myself for putting in the effort to clean it all up, and thinking that iCloud would sync up all my other devices with the newly cleaned bookmarks.
But its now been a week since the clean-up and my iMac, iPad, and iPhone all still have the mess of nothingness!
There’s got to be a better way?!?
UPDATE: After some digging I found that the best solution was to delete all the bookmarks on the machine by renaming the safari bookmarks plist file… then flipping icloud off back on again and it downloads just the good bookmarks… whew!
While there are a number of articles out there on how to do this, they all felt overly confusing for what should be a pretty simple task.
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plistln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Application\ Support/Coda ~/Library/Application\ Support/CodaThat’s it! your synced and ready to go
Having some fun with Mixel, the new social collaging app for iPad from Khoi Vinh
I was skeptical but it’s loads of fun, and its free so what do you have to lose?
While most people walked away from today’s Kindle annoucements thinking this was Amazon starting a war with Apple and the iPad, there was a little part of the annoucments that suggest they may have a different target in mind
Turns like amazon had a little trick up its sleave that it showed everyone at todays much anticipated Tablet annoucement. Amazon Silk is a web-kit based browser for their new Kindle Fire tablet. The big difference with this browser is that it works with amazons cloud infrastructure to speed up the rendering of web pages.
This sounded really revolutionary at first but the more and more I think about it its really not much different that what google page speed service or cloud flare are already doing, except flipping it around a bit and removes the control this caching away from the web developers.
Don’t get me wrong, I am excited for this innovation and I am glad Amazon is trying to push the limits of how mobile web browsing works. But as Gruber mentioned, if this takes off this would give Amazon a gold-mine of data (even in aggregate) about peoples browsing history an habits and as Chris Espinosa puts out them in a position were they could really take on google in a whole new way, using what started out as android code.
Big day for amazon..