Read about the iPhone here if that’s what you’re mainly interested in, it’s been covered pretty exhaustively other places, so I doubt I need to add more to the mix (Gizmodo|Engadget|ITavisen|Digi.no|Tek.no|DB.no|VG.no)
Not sure how much new you can attribute to Apple, but marketing, hype, streamlining and quality could quite possibly be some of them. They don’t do a lot of innovations on their own really, but they tend to do some serious optimizations that Redmond could take notes of. Yesterday they announced a generally improved and faster iPhone (might be I want this one, not sure, still on the fence) with a bunch of new features (but still no multitasking and AMOLED screen? Wtf?), the latest OS announced, and Safari 4 released, hailed as the fastest browser on earth.
I suppose I can agree on the fastest browser on earth thing, it’s so fast it’s a bliss to use. Just one problem, a huge one, they removed the fucking Tabs On Top as they’re called, the ones where the tabs covered the useless, in the way, title bar instead of hogging extra screen-estate. Colour me annoyed, and colour me Chrome. Well, maybe not. The speed in Safari might be enough to want to use it instead of Chrome, but I doubt it. Chrome has the Omnibar, and no matter how I twist and turn it, it’s a massive time-saver. Safari has a really sweet Speed Dial they borrowed from Opera, and some awesome eye-candy, but are they enough to turn me to Safari instead of Chrome as my second-browser-of-choice? I don’t think so. Disregarding screen-estate it falls down to the Omnibar in Chrome. It’s ridiculously practical. So practical I’m puzzled why it hasn’t been copied across the board.
Apple’s New Announcements
Read about the iPhone here if that’s what you’re mainly interested in, it’s been covered pretty exhaustively other places, so I doubt I need to add more to the mix (Gizmodo|Engadget|ITavisen|Digi.no|Tek.no|DB.no|VG.no)
Not sure how much new you can attribute to Apple, but marketing, hype, streamlining and quality could quite possibly be some of them. They don’t do a lot of innovations on their own really, but they tend to do some serious optimizations that Redmond could take notes of. Yesterday they announced a generally improved and faster iPhone (might be I want this one, not sure, still on the fence) with a bunch of new features (but still no multitasking and AMOLED screen? Wtf?), the latest OS announced, and Safari 4 released, hailed as the fastest browser on earth.
I suppose I can agree on the fastest browser on earth thing, it’s so fast it’s a bliss to use. Just one problem, a huge one, they removed the fucking Tabs On Top as they’re called, the ones where the tabs covered the useless, in the way, title bar instead of hogging extra screen-estate. Colour me annoyed, and colour me Chrome. Well, maybe not. The speed in Safari might be enough to want to use it instead of Chrome, but I doubt it. Chrome has the Omnibar, and no matter how I twist and turn it, it’s a massive time-saver. Safari has a really sweet Speed Dial they borrowed from Opera, and some awesome eye-candy, but are they enough to turn me to Safari instead of Chrome as my second-browser-of-choice? I don’t think so. Disregarding screen-estate it falls down to the Omnibar in Chrome. It’s ridiculously practical. So practical I’m puzzled why it hasn’t been copied across the board.