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• May 2, 2012

  RIM's Failed Hail Mary

  Dustin Curtis:

  Despite a complete management overhaul, and several embarrassing delays, nothing has changed. BlackBerry 10 is not a revolutionary operating system. RIM has failed once again.

  Dustin on RIM’s radically new camera that lets you step backwards in time after you’ve taken a photo:

  This is cool, and maybe it’s even a worthwhile research project, but who in their right mind, when faced with RIM’s current crisis, would spend the resources to design, build, and perfect a camera as complex as that?

  End of the day, I don’t see how RIM can last—it seems lost beyond hope.

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• May 2, 2012

  Why We Shouldn't Make Separate Mobile Websites

  Smashing Magazine:

  The vital point is that you never know better than your users what content they want. When Nielsen writes that mobile websites should “cut features, to eliminate things that are not core to the mobile use case; [and] cut content, to reduce word count and defer secondary information to secondary pages,” he forgets this fact.

  This is a fantastic good read if you have a say (design- or engineering-wise) in how the site looks to mobile and desktop clients. The article goes on to talk about usability studies and possible starting points in addressing the vast mobile audiences.

  More importantly, check out the suggested reading by the writer, “Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide”.

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• May 2, 2012

  The Wake Up Campaign

  Brooks Review:

  Turns out RIM was indeed behind the Wake Up campaign, so maybe giving out phones with no Internet is RIM’s way of showing that they are better than iPhones.

  Epically laughable.

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• May 2, 2012

  Change the Copy from 'Multinational Corporations' to 'Apple'

  Joy of Tech:

  

  Exactly.

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