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@Jacob: Apologies, that should be fixed now.

@Mike: Valid point re: visits vs visitors, will correct.

@All: Of course the decline in Flash usage in general coincides with the rise of a popular device that doesn’t come with Flash installed.

But, an important word about these numbers: they don’t include most of the iPhone/iPod touch traffic. In the Google Analytics account I’m checking, only 0.2% of Lifehacker’s traffic comes from Safari on the iPhone or iPod. (A partner created Lifehacker’s mobile site, so the iPhone are miniscule because only the ones where the user explicitly asks to be taken to the full site were counted.)

Olof makes some valid points above.

While my gut reaction is to agree entirely with al3x, thinking about it more, the open vs closed thing may be a philosophical difference that doesn’t actually manifest itself in reality as much as we OSS folks fear.

Is there really a sunset on tinkerers going on with Apple products? The iPhone jailbreak community is active, and you can get unapproved apps using it. No doubt someone will jailbreak the iPad instantly, too.

What would someone use this for, for more than 10 mins?

Here’s my read: this is a living room/kitchen second computer that takes on netbooks. I like to browse and email while lounging in the living room at night, half paying attention to the TV, and judging from the model user in the official Apple video, this is what they’re shooting for. Notice how he’s wearing jeans, with his legs propped up on a coffee table–this is a casual, at-home, while-you’re-relaxing computer, not a serious laptop.

Great points all around about the backlit screen vs the Kindle’s much better e-ink. And yes, from here on in, I think we should all refer to it as a giant iPod touch.

Also the fact that the iPad is unlocked. International SIM cards “just work.” Sound familiar? (Ahem, Nexus One.)

@nicholas and @ashbyd: Can you two wave me screenshots of your use cases in action? They both sound great.

@tenkely: Yep, the locker combo is just a contact.

Indeed!

Sure, you could use it for first-resort backup, like you’d use a thumb drive, but for hardcore backup, no. I need my backups to happen automatically, so I use Time Machine/Mozy to do that.

What’s important is diversity in general, not just women. O’Reilly’s diversity statement puts it well: “innovation is enhanced by a variety of perspectives.”

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/diversity.csp

Hey all–just to clarify again:

The purpose of this chart is to explain Google Wave in terms of its similarities and differences from existing group collaboration offerings. It is by no means complete. For space reasons, I left out a LOT of issues, like federation, extensions, mobile, add-ons, details of how different things are handled. Again, this is meant to be a broad, at-a-glance overview.

In general if something required an external add-on, I didn’t consider that a feature of the product or type of product. I realize that comparing types of products (forums, wikis) against specific products (Google Docs, Wave) is apples-to-oranges, but again, this is a BROAD overview. I don’t feel that a particular wiki or forum product can represent the entire genre the way Google Docs represents web-based office suites. I didn’t have the space to get into the nitty gritty of one forum or wiki product over another. THAT chart would have been monstrous.

So, yes, I made a few generalizations here both in and not in Wave’s favor. (For example, there is a Wave bot that exports blips, but IMO it sucks, so I didn’t give Wave a “yes” for exporting documents.)

Again, this chart is for the purpose of illustrating to readers of a book about Wave how Wave compares to similar types of products. My apologies for having to generalize a bit for the sake of space.

Interesting… I didn’t have 3G before so I’m not sure whether or not I’m having the problem, but really interesting to see it may be a 2.1 bug.

Thanks everyone!

@Tim: THANKS for that. Exactly the kind of fact-checking I was hoping for! I’ll update the chart.

@Kevin: Oooh, I didn’t know that! No app required on the latest builds, that’s fantastic. Will update the post, thanks.

@mathowie: Completely agree the fanboyism should NOT be celebrated or encouraged. But after reading Pogue’s piece I just had to confess some of the (totally ridiculous) assumptions I make based on what kind of phone people use.

Cannot WAIT to read your Nexus review.

@Josh: I don’t think so… do you mean like an email address? or the body of a message?

@Sean: Yup, that’s what I did to take the screen caps you see in the post.

@tmoatsir: I think it has to be rooted for that, and I haven’t gotten that far yet.

@AdamBronte: Not sure about battery life yet, but all early indicators are very good.

All: I just added screenshots of the Gallery application to the post, which I finally got syncing to Picasa Web Albums. Thanks to giri for the reminder about that!

@giri: How do you import your Picasa web albums into the Gallery? I don’t see that option.

Also, the iPhone headphone controller working is crazy. I have a 1st gen iPhone headphone controller, so it doesn’t plug in all the way and I couldn’t test.

Looks like Shootme only supports rooted phones, so my complaint still stands–there should be an easy way to take screencaps out of the box with no apps or rooting.

Ah, I have to root for dropcap2, huh… Ok, that’s my next Android project.

I went T-Mobile, since my contract is up soon, and using my AT&T SIM I would have only gotten on EDGE.

@Tim: I should’ve worded that differently–I simply renamed the projectview file pv. So simple
mv projectview pv
will do.

If I used a web-based task manager, most likely it would be Remember the Milk–but Gmail Tasks are pretty great too. (Especially that you can turn a message into a task.)

But, at this point, I’ve gotten so used to using todo.txt, I probably won’t ever switch. It’s awesome having 4 years of completed work in my done.txt file, which I can grep at any time to look back. But also not so awesome when I want to check my list on the go. To each her/his own, I say.

Heck yeah I’ll have it at Barcamp! You can play with it then.

We talked to Dave Winer about the name:

http://groups.google.com/group/thinktankapp/browse_thread/thread/e41b250e10ed2ceb