Cute :) (via Oli Pitt)

The trouble is, the market pays for solutions to gnarly problems, not solutions to easy problems. As the Yorkshire lads say, "Where there's muck, there's brass."

"it made 25,000 versions of the games for different handsets, operators and languages, with 21,000 of those in Europe". The economics of this stagger me - can it really be right? Can they really QA this quantity of variants?

“You can use any handset on our network you want,” says Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T’s wireless business. “We don’t prohibit it, or even police it.”

"the projected number of iterations is a lot higher than what is expected"

"Who are these “heavy clickers”... these are the same people that tend to open direct mail and love to talk to telemarketers."

"Rework: The result of the misconception that one could create without learning something new."

"They are building the list themselves using all the data they can get their hands on"

"if the business can’t decide what’s most important, they should solve that problem rather than abdicate to development"

Cute :)

"One Web does not mean consuming a desktop oriented presentation on all devices in all circumstances."

"If the handset has GPS, and can get a GPS fix, then both sets of information are sent to Google as a new entry in the database - making it more accurate for the next user." Very cute indeed, cell info gathered by stealth.