I remember the original iPhone well. I remember incredibly slow network connectivity but pretty darn good battery life. The iPhone 3G I replaced it with pretty evenly swapped those. I learned that it was worthwhile to turn 3G on when I really needed it and off when I didn’t. 3G giveth bandwidth and taketh away battery runtime. My iPhone 4 today runs close to an entire day on a charge, which usually includes use for email, Twitter, Facebook, and Pandora….
I am noticing a frightening trend. On iOS, there is a growing collection of “security” apps. There is no such thing as a third-party security app on iOS (or on Windows Phone 7 for that matter). They don’t exist. There is no such thing. On iOS, there is (thankfully) no framework for the background task approach that “classic” antivirus has used for the last 25 years. More importantly, due to a vetted application store, the need for such an approach is not…
I’ve long been critical of Google’s lack of “local” search focus. In particular, I think that they’ve missed a lot of opportunities to try and connect with local restaurants (no, not those with logos with you’d recognize – rather, those with food you’d remember), but it goes far deeper than just restaurants. Google licensed Yelp content for some time, and even tried to acquire Yelp back in 2009 to try and fix things like this, and when that failed, Google…