barleyherb's web comments

Oct 10

Re: Cable Car Will Be Called “Emirates Air Line” -

Sorry, I meant tunnel.

Oct 05

Re: Samsung teases next week's 'Unpacked,' offers a momentary glance at a mysterious device -

If your thigh is as curved as the phone in that video i’d cut down on the crunches.

Oct 01

Re: Old Kindle Renamed ‘Kindle Keyboard,’ New Touch Just $10 Cheaper Than Fire -

Please don’t tell me you actually use that unbearable web browser.

Re: Pulse Newsreader Coming to Kindle Fire -

The best-selling individual models are top-end, but that belies the fact that there are a *lot* of different lower-end models out there (Wildfire, Incredible, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Pro, Galaxy R,…

Sep 28

Re: Apple wants to 'talk iPhone' on October 4th -

Nobody wants to tell their phone what to do.

Re: Apple wants to 'talk iPhone' on October 4th -

I like the idea of people just shouting ‘you useless piece of shit!’ at their phones and everyone thinking they’re abusing their PAs/wives/maids.

Sep 27

Re: Editorial: Facebook’s new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’ -

It’s not all or nothing really. You can still share songs using a simple HTML link. OK, the seeing your friend’s playlists automatically through Facebook is gone, but you could just ask your friends…

Re: Editorial: Facebook’s new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’ -

Oh sure. But they won’t. That’s my point: they own the social graph, so all they need to offer in terms of features is a reasonable facsimile of what everyone else offers.

Sep 25

Re: Microsoft boots Windows Phone manager following mini-review of Nokia's Mango handset -

I find the leap from 3.7in to 4.3 or more a bit odd. 4.3 is definitely too big for my liking. 4in strikes me as the sweet spot, and I bet that’s where the iPhone 5 will be.

Aug 24

Re: The $99.99 TouchPad phenomenon, in your words -

Making a bigger loss on an already disastrous product to keep good relations with your retail partners = totally different thing.