After having spent one week with a Nexus One myself, Jeff Lamarche is right on every single point,

Overall, it’s just a general lack of attention to detail that defines the differences between the iPhone and the Nexus One, and that lack of attention to detail exists on both the hardware and software side. The Nexus One isn’t a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination. Had it come out three years ago, it would have been revolutionary. But you do have to train yourself to Android’s idiosyncrasies much more so than the iPhone. If you’ve never owned or used an iPhone, you’ll probably find the Nexus One to be a very adequate device and will assume that the minor annoyances are just part of owning a smart phone. If you’ve owned an iPhone for any length of time, you’ll likely feel, as I do, that it’s a rather half-baked device with some good ideas but generally weak execution.

Google is a big clunky Microsoft-like company with strategy taxes, and they don’t trust the web or developers, or each other, and their internal politics drive most of the decisions they make. To compete with Twitter is an easy sell inside Google, but to actually have the will to be cut-throat about it, that’s another thing. It’ll probably have to pay homage to Google Wave (remember that?) and therefore will have some elements that are completely incomprehensible. Twitter likely won’t get killed, because Google’s product will likely fall far-short of what’s needed to get us all to think they can be trusted.

Apple just posted the keynote video. I’m gonna watch it. I first got the news from a live feed but nothing comes close to watching Steve Jobs doing the pitch of its new product.

This video says it all. A new class of product. Scott Forsal said it will brings new opportunities (gold rush) to developers; the FSF said it’s bad for freedom as an unprecedented march of DRM.

Apple is said to have “spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork”. Such a version of iWork would presumably allow the upcoming Apple tablet to be used for document creation rather than solely content consumption. It would also blur the lines between the functions of tablet and that of a more traditional laptop computer.

Now, that’s a more interesting news than the irrelevant hardware specs of “The Tablet” we’ve been hearing so far.

As John Gruber pointed it out, if Apple is about to release such device, it’s going to be a reconception of personal computing; and the way we interact with it (which has not changed in 25 years).

Pathetic. I don’t understand why Microsoft is still introducing new devices running Windows with the exact same desktop user interface.

Pretty much like the others.

Today was all about Google’s announcement of the Nexus One. But it was not really a surprise after all these rumors.

No, the interesting thing — as Ars Technica pointed out — is how Google is selling it on its online shop. You’re first choice is to buy the device (unlocked) and then to choose a (compatible) wireless network provider.

Not the other way around.

The iPhone started it all. Carriers are becoming less and less relevant; they sell bandwith, nothing more.

Joshua Topolsky from Engadget,

The Nexus One is at its core just another Android smartphone. It’s a particularly good one, don’t get us wrong — certainly up there with the best of its breed — but it’s not in any way the Earth-shattering, paradigm-skewing device the media and community cheerleaders have built it up to be.

If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or just anything, I say you’re thinking too small — the equivalent of thinking that the iPhone was going to be just a click wheel iPod that made phone calls. I think The Tablet is nothing short of Apple’s reconception of personal computing.