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Beautiful Photo-Mosaic Posters of Steve Jobs
In: Coding
20 Mar 2010If you enjoy using Apple products or are a huge fan of Steve Jobs, you’ll absolutely love these photo-mosaic posters.
The posters are a work of Charis Tsevis, a visual designer who is based in Greece. All Charis has used are icons of various Apple hardware and software product to create such wonderful portraits of the iconic Steve Jobs.
Charis says that he uses a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Studio Artist (Mac only) to create these photo-mosaics. He has also shared some of his brilliant work on Flickr under a CC license so you can use them for non-commercial purposes.
Beautiful Photo-Mosaic Posters of Steve Jobs
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
Droid Milestone Sold More In First 74 Days Than iPhone, Nexus One Selling Poorly [Analytics Company Estimates That Motorola Droid Milestone Outsold The iPhone Early On, Nexus One Is Way Off - Is It A Failure?]
In: gadgets
17 Mar 2010Mobile phone analytics company Flurry did an estimate on the sales of the Motorola Droid (known as the Milestone outside the US), Apple iPhone and the Google/HTC Nexus, through Day 74 of their general release. What they found might surprise you – while the iPhone is probably the mindshare learder in the smartphone market – the Droid barely outsold it. And the Google Nexus One – regarded by many pundits as the “purest” Android phone has sold poorly.
The Motorola Droid barely edged out the iPhone in sales through the first 74 days, with the Droid capturing just 50,000 more units sold. While this is remarkable, it’s important to remember that the first generation iPhone wasn’t subsidized, while the Droid was. The Nexus One has only sold a miserable 135,000 units in its first 74 days. This wasn’t an entire surprise, as sources within Google and HTC have said things accordingly.
Why is the Nexus One doing so poorly despite being regarded as the “best” and “purest” Android experience? In our estimation, it boils down to price and fanfare:
Price: Google is asking $529 for the Nexus One unsubsidized. North Americans are used to paying for phones subsidized with a service plan – and in the first few weeks of the Nexus One’s launch, T-Mobile customers had to open a new service plan to get the Nexus One. Now, existing customers can upgrade to the Nexus One, but it wasn’t always like that.
Fanfare: Like anything Apple does post-2003, the iPhone was launched to great fanfare. We had weeks of speculations, tons of bad Photoshop renders of potential iPhones and when Steve Jobs finally revealed the device, it was watched like the World Cup of the tech blog world. After all that excitement, it’s hard not to believe that the iPhone flew off of shelves. As for the droid, Motorola and Verizon had (and currently have) a huge marketing campaign in the US promoting the Droid. There have been a few Nexus One c
Is the Nexus One a failure? Several high-profile tech blogs have said so – considering that it isn’t selling well. I’m not so sure, considering that Google wanted the Nexus One to be an “unfragmented” Android experience. They delivered on that, and HTC provided some great hardware. Google won’t go out of business because of the poor Nexus One sales, and it gave them an experience in producing hardware – which they’ll need for their upcoming Google netbooks later this year.
Original Post Link: Droid Milestone Sold More In First 74 Days Than iPhone, Nexus One Selling Poorly [Analytics Company Estimates That Motorola Droid Milestone Outsold The iPhone Early On, Nexus One Is Way Off - Is It A Failure?] | Published by TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities
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- Motorola Droid to be Sold Early on November 6 [Verizon Stores to Open Doors Early for the Droid]
- Google Nexus One Coming to Verizon on March 23; Mozilla Fennec Also on Board? [Google & Verizon to Launch Nexus One on March 23; Fennec Mobile Browser Spotted on Motorola Droid & Nexus One Already]
- Google Nexus One with AT&T & Rogers Support on Sale [Verizon Customers Still Have to Wait for Their CDMA Nexus One]
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Web Faceoff: Adobe Flash vs. HTML5
In: web resources
25 Feb 2010
Every week, we pit two web apps or companies against each other in our web faceoff series. In the past, we’ve put Android vs. iPhone, Digg vs. Reddit, and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard order to see which one was truly the people’s choice.
This week, we’re tweaking the competitors a bit. Over the last few weeks, you may have heard about a battle brewing between Adobe and Apple. It all started when Apple slyly revealed that the iPad would not support Flash.
This quickly broke out into a heated debate: Should we be abandoning Flash for HTML5, the new version of the web’s mark-up language that can support video, audio and more? Steve Jobs certainly thinks so.
Now with more people chiming in, we think it’s time to take the pulse of the people.
Which will eventually win out in the end: Adobe Flash or HTML5? Which is better for the future of the web? Do you think Apple has the muscle to take down Adobe’s widely used plug-in?
Make your choice in the poll below, which will close on Friday, February 27, at 12:00 p.m. PT. Then let us know your opinions on this matter in the comments.
Who would win in a fight: Adobe Flash or HTML5?(polls)
Faceoff Series: Overall Results
Week 1:
– Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
– WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)
Week 2:
– Tumblr vs. Posterous
– WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)
Week 3:
– Pandora vs. Last.fm
– WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)
Week 4:
– Twitter vs. Facebook
– WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)
Week 5:
– WordPress vs. Typepad
– WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)
Week 6:
– Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
– WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)
Week 7:
– TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop
– WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)
Week 8:
– Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
– WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)
Week 9:
– Apple iPhone vs. Google Android
– WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)
Week 10:
– AT&T vs. Verizon
– WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)
Week 11:
– Google vs. Bing
– WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)
Week 12:
– iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP
– WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes)
Week 13:
– Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon
– WINNER: Digg, 14,762 votes (Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUpon: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes)
Week 14:
– Old versus new Twitter retweets
– WINNER: Old style retweets, 1625 votes (New style retweets: 699 votes, Tie: 227 votes)
Week 15:
– Gmail vs. Outlook
– WINNER: Gmail, 3684 votes (Outlook: 980 votes, Tie: 590 votes)
Week 16:
– Boxee vs. Hulu
– WINNER: Hulu, 626 votes (Boxee: 591 votes, Tie: 106 votes)
Week 17:
– Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS
– WINNER: Nexus One, 6743 votes (iPhone 3GS: 2818 votes, Tie: 592 votes)
Week 18:
– Foursquare vs. Yelp vs. Gowalla
– WINNER: Foursquare, 1182 votes, (Yelp: 661 votes, Gowalla: 509 votes, Tie: 143 votes)
Week 19:
– AIM vs. GTalk vs. FbChat
– WINNER: GTalk, 2189 votes, (AIM: 1257 votes, FbChat: 511 votes, Tie: 203 votes)
Week 20:
– Music Ownership vs. Music Subscription
– WINNER: Ownership, 533 votes (Subscription: 299 votes, Tie: 237)
Week 21:
– Match.com vs. PlentyofFish
– WINNER: Plenty of Fish, 430 votes (Match.com: 334 votes, Tie: 187 votes)
Week 21:
– Google Buzz vs. Facebook Vs. Twitter
– WINNER: Facebook, 3353 votes (Twitter: 1828 votes, Google Buzz: 1298 votes, Tie: 651 votes)
[HTML5 image courtesy of justinsomnia on Flickr]
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