Somewhere in the Land of Tomorrow. Or Tomorrow Land.
Posted by Engadget, this very similar PMP comes in at less than $40, which is a good deal if you’re in the market for, well, as one DealExtreme reviewer puts it: “the device [that] contains a virus when you connect it to your computer.”
The most accurate and believable tablet information I’ve seen so far.
You know, I’m actually pretty impressed. As one Engadget commenter pointed out, look out for 2:15 in the video, where “I spy iSync, Bonjour, Interface Builder, a Gameboy Advance, Spore, GarageBand, Photo Booth, and MSN Messenger.” Never mind Android, It’s Meizu calling now…
The Official Google Blog today outlines it’s plans to review Google’s presence in China, amid growing concerns over censorship and human rights.
While perhaps a little late, I am very impressed with Google’s stance here - and I really wish Apple would follow suit, especially after their latest run-in with the Chinese government over a few Dalai Lama apps. I still think it’s very unlikely that China will cave in to Google and offer uncensored Internet access in the country, but if Google doesn’t put up with that and shuts up shop, it will send a strong message to the government that no-one likes their filter - and I imagine it could (with time) cause a small negative effect on their economy.
If you really do take strong action in the next few weeks, I offer my congratulations to you - you’re making the world a better place.
Gizmodo’s take on the story: “The lesson: you should be terrified at all times, of all things, even if Google says you shouldn’t be.”
Perhaps it’s time for Droid’s marketing guys to rethink their campaign. “Droid does open development” certainly doesn’t sound so great anymore.
Cooper, who co-founded The Green Room with me (and who is almost wholly responsible for the lovely new site), created this rather wonderful visual rumour round-up of the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-real Apple tablet device, expected to be unveiled later this month. It’s just like my iPhone round-up from last June, except with a much classier look. I agree with almost everything he’s predicted in order of likeliness here.
In terms of The Green Room site, you’ll notice this is the near-final version of the redesign. We’re publishing and sharing this around now as a pseudo-soft-launch, if you will, so that we can tinker with it ahead of the final launch which is still planned for January 31st. Of course, another reason why it’s been published now is because if we waited until the final launch, the world might already have an announced tablet, thus making the round-up useless. The domain is clunky and long, so feel free to use this short link in the mean time (link to the tablet post) or just sit tight until the end of the month.
Your feedback on the site is welcome - right now the best way to contact us properly is through @tgrblog on Twitter. In the next few days, we’ll set up an email account that works with our domain.
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*The one thing I would personally disagree with is his choice of “very unlikely” for “runs iPhone OS”. I would put it at a much higher chance. I’m not saying it will run a carbon clone of the iPhone OS current state, but it certainly won’t be running Mac OS X. Not that I know anything about it, nor does anyone else outside a very small team at Apple (except perhaps The Wall Street Journal).
2010 is here, which means all of the goals and “resolutions” I set out to achieve at various stages throughout 2009 (but never did) can be recycled, leaving enough space for one or two new goals too. This isn’t, however, a “OMG I’m going to lose weight and get a puppy” post.
I’ll happily admit that I’ve never finished reading (or for that matter, started caring) about anyone else’s public New Year’s goals and resolutions, so I don’t expect you to read or care about mine, as even I find them fairly boring anyway. I’m simply posting a list of projects that I’ve been working and collaborating on over the last few months that we plan to release into the wild before 2011 begins.
Firstly, and most shockingly overdue is the ever-promised, never-delivered redesign of The Green Room. Cooper and I started the project as co-founders in late 2008, and after my “Graphical iPhone rumour round-up” post (which I’ll be doing again this year) gave us a much-needed page view boost just before WWDC last year, we felt it was necessary to update the site.
So here’s our current plan - we’ve finished a completely new design of The Green Room, and we’re switching the blog over to Tumblr. Since Tumblr doesn’t yet allow us to import all the WordPress posts over, we’ll set up a link to our old site shortly after the new blog is launched - so while they’ll have a different URL, everything pre-Tumblr will still be available online.
We want to launch it on January 31st. This gives us enough time to sort out some domain transfer issues and make sure the site looks perfect. If everything goes according to plan, we’ll be keeping the tgrblog.com domain, so you won’t have to update your bookmarks for new content. As for RSS subscribers, you’ll be informed of any changes.
I won’t be posting as frequently on The Green Room as I have during 2009 (well, the first half anyway). I will make the occasional guest post as co-founder and I’ll continue to work behind the scenes on improvement of the site and managing editorial decisions with Cooper, but I’ll be focusing more on my work at MacTalk and another, much larger project with Cooper - there’s very little that I can say right now, except that it’s a web project, and we’re really hoping we’ll be able to launch it by December 2010.
So this is, in a way, a “teaser” post of what’s to come for The Green Room in early 2010, and an extremely vague, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it public starting point of what’s to come for our other web project in later 2010. We think you’re really going to love it, as soon as we figure out how we’re going to make it!
Finally, my other aim is to post more here. A couple of links and predictions does not equal a month’s work on a proper blog, so that’s going to stop as soon as possible.
Wishing you a somewhat belated Happy New Year.
My own two cents, as published on MacTalk’s forums:
In that order, more or less. If this rumour is to believed (and I think it most likely is), I look forward to the event.
This one, however, borrows rather heavily from a more traditional console. To be fair, I actually quite like the idea, but it’s not exactly the most practical peripheral to have in your pocket.
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