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Four Inches

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Myke and I talked at length about Apple’s event today, but I thought I’d write out some of my thoughts here.

The obvious news here is the iPhone 5’s bigger screen. At 4 inches and 1136 x 640, the new layout is 16:9 — perfect for movies in landscape, and no wider. Apps that don’t scale or fit will be letterboxed at the top and bottom.

While I know very little about app development, from the people I’ve spoken to today, moving to this new screen shouldn’t be nearly as much work as going to Retina was. In short, Apple changed the physical screen size of the iPhone in the easiest possible way.

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Why Twitter’s Afraid of Clients

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While I’m still not positive App.net will be successful long-term, it’s been fun to relive the early days of Twitter with this new service.

The service is evolving right before user’s eyes — just the other day, they added the ability to star a post — and the clients that are being built around the service are evolving, too.

I’m beta testing several apps, and have bought a couple from the App Store. They are all different. They have different control schemes, different UIs and different ways of posting, replying and re-posting. Some are blue, some are white and some are dark. Some have push notifications and some don’t. Some can publish photos and some can’t.

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The Verge Reviews the 7" Kindle Fire HD⇢

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Joshua Topolsky likes it as a content consumption device, but:

…there’s a second tablet in the review as well. One that gets compared to the iPad and Nexus 7. One that I expect to do more than just show me movies or help me shop. One that should be a companion for all kinds of things I want to do, that doesn’t feel limited, that doesn’t respond to my touches slowly, that doesn’t make me wait.

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Watching a movie in the post-DVD world is a mess. Blu-Ray startup times are measured in dozens of minutes. Digital is faster, but good luck finding your movie. If you find it, you’d better not get interrupted because you’ve got 24 hours to watch it!

There has to be a better way.

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A Kindle At Every Price

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In preparing for tomorrow’s podcast, I decided to type up a list of Amazon’s pricing for the Kindles. Here’s the complete list:

  • $69 - Kindle with Special Offers
  • $89 - Kindle without Special Offers
  • $119 - Kindle Paperwhite with Special Offers
  • $139 - Kindle Paperwhite without Special Offers
  • $139 - Kindle with Keyboard 3G with Special Offers
  • $159 - Kindle with Keyboard 3G without Special Offers
  • $159 - 7” Kindle Fire, 8 GB with Special Offers
  • $174 - 7” Kindle Fire, 8 GB without Special Offers
  • $179 - Kindle Paperwhite 3G with Special Offers
  • $199 - Kindle Paperwhite 3G without Special Offers
  • $199 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB with Special Offers
  • $214 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB without Special Offers
  • $249 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB with Special Offers
  • $264 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB without Special Offers
  • $299 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB with Special Offers
  • $314 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB without Special Offers
  • $369 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB with Special Offers
  • $383 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB without Special Offers
  • $499 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 32 GB with Special Offers
  • $514 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 32 GB without Special Offers
  • $599 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 64 GB with Special Offers
  • $614 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 64 GB without Special Offers

At almost any price point you can imagine between $70 and $700, there’s a Kindle. While that’s obviously Amazon’s goal, it makes for an extremely confusing product matrix.

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