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• Steve Jobs eventually made me Think Different

  I despised Steve Jobs and Apple for the balance of my career. And yet it is a testament to his life that he was even able to make someone like me Think Differently.

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• Windows Phone: Photography the key to its success?

  By Jason Perlow | May 21, 2012, 6:05am PDT

  To distinguish itself from Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, Microsoft’s smartphone platform needs to be a shutterbug’s paradise.

• BlackBerry 10: Without platform or apps, even the Avengers can't save RIM

  By Jason Perlow | May 2, 2012, 11:07am PDT

  Sure, a sexy device matters. But without developer superheroes, the mighty RIM will meet its demise.

• Will Barnes & Noble and Nook usher in a $199 Windows Metro tablet?

  By Jason Perlow | April 30, 2012, 2:23pm PDT

  The resolution of the litigation between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft has resulted in a $300M partnership. Will it produce an entirely new class of mobile Windows device?

• I hate Ubuntu, but my mother-in-law loves it

  By Jason Perlow | April 27, 2012, 6:08am PDT

  Ubuntu’s Unity GUI isn’t my speed. But that doesn’t matter for the majority of end-users.

• Yahoo!: We care about your privacy

  By Jason Perlow | April 20, 2012, 10:53am PDT

  Yahoo! executive Jonathan Katzman responds in an Op-Ed to my post about their use of the Facebook Open Graph API.

• Yahoo! is a Facebook API molester

  By Jason Perlow | April 18, 2012, 7:47am PDT

  Keep your purple tentacles off my Facebook profile, Yahoo!

• Google Drive: The Cloud Backup I want to see

  By Jason Perlow | April 17, 2012, 1:13pm PDT

  A Google Drive shouldn’t just be a Dropbox competitor. It needs to have value-added services for transparent Cloud-based data backup as well.

• Why Android Ice Cream Sandwich's virtual buttons suck

  By Jason Perlow | April 13, 2012, 10:57am PDT

  What idiot on Google’s Android team put the home button directly underneath the spacebar?

• The Open Source Commandments: 2012 Edition

  By Jason Perlow | April 5, 2012, 3:33pm PDT

  Why is this blog post different from all other posts? The Passover Penguins are back.

• UNIVAC: A look back into the birth of the computer industry

  By Jason Perlow | April 2, 2012, 10:28am PDT

  The Eckert-Mauchly UNIVAC was the machine that started it all.