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Product Holes: Greatest Hits break iPod Cover Flow

2010 July 18 20:20 / 3 Comments / Jakob

Following on my previous posts about broken phone browsers, phones, and cars, here is another case of “why didn’t they catch this in testing?”

We recently got ourselves an iPod Touch, to entertain our oldest child on long trips. It is a brilliant device in many ways, I can understand why people love their iPhones (even though I am very happy with the very different style of the Blackberry phone that I was given by my employer). However, I have found one weird behavior in the music player that leaves me wondering how it got through into the shipping product.

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Posted in: gadgets, programming, testing / Tagged: Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, coverflow, iPhone, iPod, Robbie Williams

Product Holes: Tesla Roadster & iPhone 4

2010 July 17 12:57 / Leave a Comment / Jakob

Continuing on the thread from my previous post about the testing of products that fail to find problems that become obvious to (some) users after a very short time, I just read an article (in Swedish) about how the famed Tesla roadster cars behaved when they were confronted with Scandinavian winters.

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Posted in: gadgets, programming, testing, transportation / Tagged: bug, cars, iPhone, software testing, Tesla, testing

C in Danger – and thus Higher-Level Languages (?)

2010 May 9 21:00 / 27 Comments / Jakob

Some recent developments among development environments for mobile phones have made me consider the hereto unthinkable: that C might be on a decline as the universal programming language. Indeed, maybe there is even a chance that we will not have a universal low-level language in the future at all. What is happening is that the hitherto “given” role of C as the base language for a platform is being questioned. The reason appears to be security, which cannot be said to be a bad thing. However, a large-scale move away from C might hurt many of today’s higher-level languages and even model-based engineering.
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Posted in: programming, security / Tagged: Android, C, DSL, Erlang, iPhone, java, Nokia, python, Windows phone

In Defence of MMS

2008 December 27 12:50 / Leave a Comment / Jakob

I just read Stephen Fry’s latest blog post about smartphones in general and the Apple iPhone in particular. He really loves the iPhone, but the interesting thing to me was the wish list of future improvements to the device. In particular, support for MMS. That was one of the things that made the iPhone unacceptable to me and not really to be considered a serious mobile phone (along with no bluetooth modem).

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Posted in: business issues, gadgets / Tagged: G900, iPhone, MMS, mobile phones

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