the Treo 680 Smartphone in 4 tasty colours. Hope this one makes it to Rogers – and not at extortion pricing – more quickly than the 700 has gotten here. The 650 took ages to get here and then the price was (and is) insane. Rogers is totally missing the boat by not having an easier entry-point for these kinds of phone. I’m still using my 600 (and very happily) but I can’t justify an update at the prices they want.
I’m in San Francisco
at a conference this week, and of course I got in touch with Aaron while here. We met at the Apple store for an event called Designing the Mobile User Experience. The design team giving the presentation clearly had a great deal of experience in the field – but if anything, they had TOO much experience.
The problem with mobile user experiences is an issue that design can address, certainly, but to suggest that the problem of low mobile adoption is related to design completely ignores the fact that the carriers nickel-and-dime business plans are the real barrier to adoption and wide usage, and their needs will always trump any designers’ efforts to improve things.
For a fine artist to not acknowledge all of their challenges is forgivable – it’s not part of the job description. But for an applied artist to engage in an hour long presentation pretending that ANY design intervention or research could ever trump the client’s pre-defined need is pretty much dishonest.
Wow!
A month with nothing here. I’ve been working like a crazy maniac trying to get things done at the new company I’m working with. Regularly scheduled programming will resume…
“Free” Music
has seemingly not been a hit on campus: Free, Legal and Ignored (from the Wall Street Journal). Sampling only works if it’s a product people want.
Breaking news:
Disgraced Enron founder Lay dead. “Ken Lay, the disgraced founder of Enron Corp. who was convicted in May on charges of fraud and conspiracy, has died… of a heart attack at a family home in Aspen, Col.”
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