Is webOS a cult?
When the notion of Apple fans as cult members began–it dates at least to the mid-1980s–the company’s customers were indeed a small, obsessive group, at least in comparison to the teeming masses that used PCs running Microsoft software. […] Back then, the fact that there were relatively few Apple enthusiasts, clinging to the products of a company with a questionable future, was supposedly evidence that they amounted to a cult.
This is your mind being just a little bit blown.
The webOS dev community is so reminiscent of the early Mac dev community. A small band who knows they’re spelunking a new and better universe, and freely shares discoveries of the pathways thru the twisty little corridors …
Palm’s problem was that the mobile Web was not ready for devices. We are just now starting to see the problems facing mobile Web apps being addressed through the HTML5 spec such as CSS and rendering along with caching and device access to elements like the camera and accelerometer. The native platforms have had that advantage since the beginning.
This is where webOS has a chance. It straddles the line between Web and native in a very fundamental way.
Justin Timberlake, you have a call on the Awesomephone, line 1
GEE-PEE-OH-WHY (via Dean’s List)
Think like a statistician – without the math
This. I mean, really.
Some people are furious that our hearts are pierced this way by the things we make. They see this ever-neediness as a debasement, a lowering of human nobility, the source of our continuous discontentment. I agree that it is the source. New technology forces us to be always chasing the new, which is always disappearing under the next new, a salvation always receding from our grasp. But I celebrate the never-ending discontentment that the technium brings. Most of what we like about being human is invented. We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches which we have to scratch, digging extra holes that we have to fill, creating new desires we’ve never had before.
MY TITS ARE ALLIGATORS YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID (via What a Croc | Regretsy)
If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the elapsed time to complete these workflows, and the enumerated set of quantified emotional damage these workflows are inflicting on your users, find an HCI guy, give him 18 months, and you’ll bedazzled.
Get on my floor! (via Floor tiles made out of recycled leather belts - Boing Boing)
INNIT! (via The Very Best Archer Gifs)
Whenever asked, “How long did it take you to make this?” I always respond, “My whole life up to that moment.
THIS WOULD WORK // (via I Can Has Cheezburger?)
No firm will ever reach that extreme [of staffing only customers], but the trajectory that leads in that direction is the right one, and any step taken to shift the balance toward relying on the relationships with customers will prove to be an advantage.
