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AESIR's UFO-like UAV spotted above Wales, is ideal for your next Metal Gear Solid cosplay {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2009 9:50AM while I like the way it moves, I can't fathom why it took so long to make something like this.
Beware cheap Nikons on eBay: 22 stolen from NYC red light cameras {Engadget}
Jul 27th 2009 9:55AM The question is who got who hooked? The older guy with the impressionable younger woman, or the vivacious younger woman with the older guy trying to keep up? *raises eyebrow*
Sprint's Dan Hesse says Android coming to Sprint this year, is glad to have waited {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2009 6:08AM Fashion pros tend to be die-hard Palm fans @ Treo. Well, usually models; most execs and designers go with Blackberry. Never understood the Treo insanity.
Close to 700,000 Palm Pre apps downloaded to date {Engadget}
Jun 21st 2009 8:18PM As I listen to the arguments, I realize that some are inverting reality.
The iphone was available, and in the hands of many users before the release of the AppStore, that is true. However, if you have a phone in the hands of 100 people, open a store with 1,000 apps, let's say only 60 of them download, because 40 of them have a hard time parting with their jailbroken phone apps. 60 people each download, 10 apps that they actually use, but 90 apps just to try them out.
Now, compare that number to a phone being in the hands of 1 person, with only 18 apps. Granted, more than one person bought the phone that day, but it's no where near the penetration that the iphone had by time the appstore was released. To achieve 700k downloads with such a small pool of apps (thus less interest, for it's less probable that you'll like all 18 apps, than it is that you'll find more than 18 apps out of a pool of 1,000). Is remarkable.
Funny thing is I don't even like the Pre. I'm a crackberry addict, and I'd sooner tell someone to buy a BB, or iPhone before a Pre.
Futhermore, the math of 700K, over the course of a year, is incorrect. One must also consider the growth factors. It wouldn't be 365 divided by 10 times 700k. Since that assumes 700k is a constant, when it's not. The growth would be exponential. However, even then I think the AppStore would trump it, as such the writer's point still stands ... but that's a result of the phone already having significant penetration prior to the store opening.
With the Pre, we're talking about an almost forgotten company making that much of a splash, while in the era of the iphone. The iphone had no competition. People didn't have a choice of "should I get the Pre, iPhone, BlackBerry, or G1?"
If someone could do the actual math, I'd appreciate it. My brain's getting slow in my old age. Thank you in advance.
Crapgadget: Delicious salmagundi of decorative inanities edition {Engadget}
Jun 21st 2009 7:24PM Recharging that badboy, to me, is as silly as needing to charge my headphones before using them. I remember even back in the day, not needing an additional power source for very large speakers,
I guess the whale stores the energy in it's blubber.
The real Human Interface {Engadget}
May 23rd 2009 4:30PM states:
Dick in a box.
*proceeds to sing it to ImaYam*
The real Human Interface {Engadget}
May 23rd 2009 4:28PM Dick in a box.
*proceeds to sing it to ImaYam*
The real Human Interface {Engadget}
May 23rd 2009 4:25PM Dick in a box.
*proceeds to sing it to ImaYam*
Engadget goes legs-on with Honda's walking-assist devices (with video!) {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2009 10:58PM I agree. The crotch wedgie is humorous, but still it's an amazing piece of tech. Seems like the full body cast with 2 tonne bookbag nightmares are over.
Engadget goes legs-on with Honda's walking-assist devices (with video!) {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2009 10:51PM I see we have different perceptions of discreet.
Oh wait, you said discrete ... my bad. *takes foot out of mouth*
