By John Gruber
Tiptop is a new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In & Pay-in-4 at checkout.
I enjoy how in this initial report, based on a press release and press screenshots, Gizmodo dubs it a “decent iPhone competitor”, but then when they actually got to see one firsthand it ends up — surprise surprise — that it’s buggy as hell. Plus the web browser, despite the magic bullet of 3G networking, is “painfully slow”.
Update: Good analogy from Jason Snell.
★ Tuesday, 1 April 2008