I spent a fair bit of time in a doctor’s waiting room today, and that meant surfing the web on a UMPC. I ran across a few articles that point to recurring ludicrocity that I have to comment about. Sit back and enjoy the ride, and let me know if you find these things as silly as I find them.
Retweet — the new retweet function that Twitter has rolled out was seemingly in every third tweet I’ve seen lately. Let me be straight — I am interested in reading smart things that folks have to say, on Twitter or anywhere else. I do not care that 1,300 people also found them interesting enough and retweeted them. We don’t need more noise on the web, we need more focus.
Droid Auto-focus Bug — the Android development team has admitted there is a bug in the auto-focusing API that caused all of the Droid’s bad camera experiences, and then fixed them automatically. There’s a time-stamp error in the API that causes it to work poorly for 24.5 days, and then properly for 24.5 days, ad infinitum. Time-stamp? In a camera focusing routine? You’re kidding me, right?
Microsoft Exec Ray Ozzie — smartphone apps don’t matter, developers will port all apps people want to all the platforms. Apps are not a differentiator among phone platforms. Spoken like a company in denial. Sadly, Ozzie is Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect. Let that sink in for a moment.
Windows 7 Starter Edition on Netbooks — Joanna Stern of Slashgear points out that 23 of 28 netbooks on sale at Amazon currently are preloaded with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Ms. Stern also points out the basic functionality that is missing from the Starter Edition, such as desktop wallpaper customization, that makes Windows XP a better value for netbooks than Win 7 Starter Edition. It’s like we have taken a step backward in the Windows world, yet again.

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