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iPhoney, a nifty iPhone browser simulator

iPhoney simulates how mobile Safari renders pages on an iPhone. You can rotate and zoom, and it looks good too. It requires Safari Beta 3 to benefit of all the cool features like zooming.
I’m currently brainstorming with the excellent David Turgeon, founder of the music label NoType (which offers free music on line to [...]

Of Zune and focus groups, the brown factor

Microsoft’s MP3 player sports 3 colors: black, white and… BROWN! This weird choice inspire me this reflexion about innovation, design, and focus groups.
As we all know innovation is certainly not a key for success when it is about market shares. Microsoft holds the biggest share in the global PC related software market. But they always [...]