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Louis Gray, on switching to Android:

I also will never tell you that Android is perfect - in software or in hardware.

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The momentum is clear and the option of multiple choices is clear. If I like Android and hate my new carrier, Sprint, I can switch to Verizon and get the Incredible. If I have an aneurysm and love AT&T, I can get the Aria. If I want a small screen, I can do that. If I want a physical keyboard, I can find a device that does that. But for iPhone, I simply would have to take whatever Apple offers and believe that their choices are right for me. I’ve chosen Apple many times and will again in the future, but I don’t think I should buy into a system that restricts my choices when another one is out there that enables my choices.

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I’m sure the eventual Arrested Development movie won’t be this intense, but man, this trailer is sweet.

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Fortune Magazine:

iTunes reinvented music. Pixar, now part of Disney, elevated animated films. The iPhone changed telecom. And the new iPad has other computer makers scrambling to respond. Rocking one industry could be luck, but upending four? That’s smart.

He is a visionary, a micromanager, and a showman who creates such anticipation around new products that their releases are veritable holidays.

Jonathan Ive got named “Smartest Designer” this year. Both awards are well-deserved.

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Arnold Kim, on a leaked Apple-branded screen that has been making the rounds this morning:

We’re not sure what to make of it. The screen isn’t the right proportion to be used in the current iPod nano, though Apple could change the design. We’re also taking their word on it that it’s even a touch screen.

I’m not sure a touch-based iPod nano makes much sense, especially if Apple is going to continue to push it to runners using Nike+.

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If you haven’t read this, you should. For parents of terminally ill children (like Merri and I), this is simply amazing.

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Chris Foresman at Ars Technica, on the new MobileMe Calendar beta program announced today:

The current Calendar looks very similar to iCal on Mac OS X. The new Calendar Web app gains new views for month, week, and day, as well as a handy list view. These seem to map very closely to the Calendar UI on the iPad. Along with the UI changes, Apple is adding private calendar sharing with other MobileMe users, public sharing via CalDAV and a read-only Web view, and event invitations with RSVPs. Like the new Mail, Calendar will also gain performance improvements as well.

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Oh, snap.

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Another brilliant Apple-related Onion piece.

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Reuters:

LeBron James has made at least one decision, just not the one the basketball world had been waiting for.

The most sought after NBA free agent of 2010 has joined the social networking site Twitter under the moniker ‘kingjames’, his publicist Keith Estabrook confirmed with Reuters on Tuesday.

More than 84,000 people have signed up to follow James as speculation mounts as to where he will play next season, even though he has not yet made a single posting.

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Prince, via The Daily Mirror:

The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.

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Marco:

The original iPhone was great on day one. It couldn’t do as much as today’s iPhone, but it performed its feature-set extremely well. There were almost no rough edges or unpolished areas in its hardware or software, and nearly everything seemed justifiable, well conceived, and well executed.

Apple tends to do that a lot. It’s deeply ingrained in their culture, priorities, and product development practices. In brief, their philosophy seems to be to ship only what’s great and leave out the rest. That’s why, instead of having a bad copy-and-paste implementation for the iPhone’s first two years, we just didn’t have one at all.

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Rob Beschizza of BoingBoing:

Hyperspectral images of a draft of the Declaration of Independence reveal that it originally used the word ‘subjects’ instead of ‘citizens’ at a critical juncture. After writing “our fellow subjects,” author Thomas Jefferson scrubbed it out and replaced it with the familiar alternative.

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