Philip Haine's articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design

Stolen Ideas

Idea stolen: One click High Dynamic Range Photography

Idea stolen: Audio UI for Audio Players

Idea stolen: Ansel Adams in one click

Idea stolen: thumbs up/down for streaming music

Tune your tunes on the go with a button press.

Idea (partially) stolen: Tilt-to-Scroll

Tilt an iPhone to scroll

The iPod touch is not a great media player

The iPod touch looks like a slick, sleek PDA and a handy mobile web terminal. Too bad it’s not much of a music or movie player.

Google Gears and the dawn of Either/Or Apps (EOA’s)

Gears ushers in a new era where applications and data may live remotely, or locally, or both.
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Hosted vs. Local applications

There are strong scenarios for both types of applications and a possible bridge between them