Dom Barnes

Andy Rubin speaking at AllThingsD

You should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone

Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.

This certainly explains Google’s interest in putting NFC and Google Wallet into Android. Its for a phone call.

Siri isn’t just a way to talk to your phone. Its a conversation, but with an end goal, be it to create a text message, set up a meeting, or respond to email. Its not trying to beat the Turing test, its just trying to make it quicker and easier to get things done.

Marco releases the latest update to Instapaper, a fantastic reading application. I haven’t got an iPad, but I borrowed one for a few months and Instapaper was my goto place to read when I had some downtime. If I still had it, I would be even more excited for this update.

As usual, Merlin Mann offers his unique view on the update, and how its helped him read more, rather that flinging something red at something green

Spend the $4.99 and get this. Then add the bookmarklet to your Safari Bookmark Bar as Command + 1.

Steve is dead. But you walk into an Apple Store and you see all the reasons why he was such a phenomenal CEO, and why so many people feel the way I do tonight.

Wednesday 5th October 2011. Thats the date a great man died. Not a Nobel Prize winner, but certainly a man who’s influence affected many people, half of whom probably don’t realise it. Andy Ihnatko sums it up brilliantly as always.