The Verge: Jony Ive reportedly pushing ‘flat design’ in a newly collaborative environment at Apple
I think Windows 8 is about to find out how flat design is really done.

—The Bobby Fuller Four

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins talks some shit about the iPhone:

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.
I’m a little confused.
Below is the iPhone (left) and the Blackberry Z10 (right). Even when you factor in the interesting UI gestures how are they leapfrogging the iOS? (or Android for that matter)

*Z10 image via Ars Technica

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Image taken from Mad4Wheelz

—Frank Chimero

Ian King & Dina Bass reporting for Bloomberg on Microsoft being a day late and dollar short with whatever they’re trying to do:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices, people with knowledge of the company’s sales said, a slow start in its bid to crack the fast-growing tablet market to make up for slumping personal-computer demand.
First Microsoft pisses off their vendors by coming out with what they consider the “ideal” (to add extra cheese to those air quotes, imagine Steve Ballmer making them) form factor for a Windows 8 tablet.
Then, their “ideal” fails to gain traction, making vendors think twice about even making their own.
Way to shoot yourself in the face, Ballmer.
Seriously though, what’s the incentive to make a Windows 8 tablet at this point?

Google is shutting down Reader. A lot of people are upset about this. I’ll admit I’m a little bummed about it too. I read my Google Reader feeds via the awesome Reeder application multiple times every day.
But here’s the thing—all of us bitching about Google Reader shutting down are all people who work in the world of technology. Regular people have no idea what RSS feeds are.
If nerds like me can’t live to a world without Reader then I should think about changing professions.
Get over it. Adapt or die.

Dante D’Orazio at The Verge reports Twitter now supports line breaks on the web. That’s insane. I’m truly blown away by what you can do with computers these days. Fucking line breaks. Who would have thought.
Now if they can only figure out how to allow for tweets longer than 140 characters.

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