• Entertaining presentation on tactics to get into the App Store;
• The Register on Windows Phone 7 design: "If you don't have as much detail in the transition as you do in the state, you're going to get it wrong, Buxton said at Mix09.";
• Tufte waded in on W7 too, and quite sharply: "The WP7S screens look as if they were designed for a PP slide presentation or for a video demo ... and not for an handheld interface"
• Fisherprice launch iPhone Apps, no surprise given how the very young seem to take to touch UI... I hope we get to show off what we've been doing in this area one day.
• Interesting piece on how to think of success benchmarks for app launches;
• I'm a sucker for tech folklore and I'm old enough to remember Windows 2.0, so I loved this piece on the secret origin of Windows, the tale of how this beast actually got launched...
• Someone's leaked the iPhone developer agreement. Good.
• Apple have a new stance on off-the-shelf apps and launchers: they've got to do more than that. I'm simultaneously pleased to see the bar raised, and a bit worried that this class of app might be unavailable, when on other app stores they're pretty popular (8 million downloads of Facebook on GetJar, for instance);
• Lovely presentation on game design, game-like mechanics, and convergence. Well worth 20 minutes.

Consider Spring now cleaned. I'm off for a week of R&R, hiding out in a cottage in Devon with a pile of books and a copy of Eclipse. PleaseRobMe users please note I'm leaving Rosehill guarded by a brace of slack-bowelled lions and in the broadsword-wielding hands of @joh.

Comments

[daveph]

You really remember Windows 1.0? Crikey.
I only remember 2.11 (386 required).
That must have been 1990 or so.
Before that it was all GEM if you wanted a GUI on a IBM clone.

[daveph]

I'm sorry, that was Windows/386 v2.11. Not proper Windows 2.0 at all, it seems...

[Tom Hume]

Dave, you're absolutely right. I've looked at old screenshots and times, and it would've been 2.0 (running on RM Nimbus' I believe), not 1.0. I've updated accordingly (and spanked myself - this is the second time in recent months I've misremembered early tech experiences in favour of my geek cred)...