Unfortunately, the system still lacks much of the fine polish that iOS users enjoy. The majority of Android users will probably think such criticism is bullshit, but that has always been the case. I imagine it’s probably hard for a Mercedes owner to describe to a Honda owner how attention to detail makes their driving…

Interesting interview with Sheena Iyengar: About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display, and then at the times when we had 6 different flavors of jam out on display only 40% of the people actually stopped, so more people were clearly attracted to the larger varieties of options, but then…

Ice Cream Sandwich – from source code release to software upgrade — Developer World.

Marco Arment, on Eric Schmidt’s “Whether you like Android or not, you will support that platform” comment: Is that a prediction or a threat? If it’s a threat, I don’t think he meant it as a threat from Google, but rather a threat from Schmidt’s assumed laws of economics: that to avoid Android will be…

Eliot Spitzer on the aforelinked scandal revealed by Bloomberg: Imagine you walked into a bank, applied for a personal line of credit, and filled out all the paperwork claiming to have no debts and an income of $200,000 per year. The bank, based on these representations, extended you the line of credit. Then, three years…

Haha. I love how Apple made these suggestions for Samsung and the last bullet for tablets is definitely the icing on the cake.

Daring Fireball: Rootkit, Eh?.

Nilay Patel, writing for The Verge: The Carrier IQ smartphone tracking scandal continues to grow, but we’ve just learned some interesting news from an extremely reliable source: the Google Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and the original Xoom tablet do not contain Carrier IQ software. Each of those devices was launched in direct partnership with Google…