Linked List: June 22, 2008

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Survey Claims 24 Percent of U.S. iPhone Owners Switched From a Razr ★

If it’s even vaguely close to accurate, that’s a remarkable number. It might also explain Motorola’s precipitous decline.

Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote’s Untold Past, Present and Future ★

Christopher Mascari interviews TiVo’s Paul Newby, the lead designer of their iconic remote control.

Greg Knauss on Mozilla’s Ersatz UI Chrome ★

Greg Knauss in Suck over eight years ago, on the then-new Mozilla’s “skinnable” UI chrome:

Oh, sure, somebody will labor mightily to produce a skin that looks just like each native OS, and he or she might even come close to pulling it off. But close doesn’t mean much in a world where subtlety and nuance actually matter. Common, native controls exist for a reason, and that reason is not to serve as a model for crude simulations.

Just as apt today.

Yahoorezinr ★

Fill-in-the-blanks Yahoo resignation letter generator.

How to Buy a Camera Lens ★

An introduction to SLR lenses from Macworld’s Rick LePage.

The Psychology of iPhone 3G Pricing ★

Michael Rosenwald in The Washington Post on the effect of the iPhone 3G’s $199 starting price.