Compelling idea for moving files from Mac to iPhone | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog: “There’s iCloud, Dropbox and a host of other services to help us tranfer these files, but there are no solutions as elegant as the concept devised by interaction designer Ishac Bertran.” (Via. TUAW) Elegant? I’d say this is anything but elegant. For starters, how is manually holding a phone in one hand while pinching and dragging with the other on a vertical screen more elegant than iCloud automatically syncing the files with no user…

Familiar is not a design: Quasar was not designed, but rather only implemented. It’s the classic outcome of closed, engineer-based thinking. (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Matt Gemmell sums up my thoughts on Quasar perfectly. The iPad doesn’t present multiple apps on screen at once for a reason, and that reason isn’t because of some hardware limitation, or because Apple wanted to “dumb it down” for users. It wasn’t an arbitrary decision. Apple designed the iPad that way, and I believe it’s a better device for…

Sweden may also investigate Apple over iPad 4G/LTE marketing: Just a day after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commissionfiled a complaintover Apple’s 4G/LTE marketing in the new iPad, Sweden is considering an investigation of its own. The Swedish Consumer Agency says it has received a number of complaints from iPad buyers about the device’s LTE capabilities—LTS is only available in the US—and is now weighing whether it wants to open its own investigation into Apple’s marketing practices. (Via Ars Technica) Apple’s going…

Apple’s new Verizon iPad can serve as LTE hotspot for more than 24 hours: The highly-technical Anand Lal Shimpi over atAnandTechrecently revealed that his tests of the new Verizon iPad found that it could act as a mobile hotspot by sharing its LTE connection with other devices — such as a notebook — forapproximately 25.3 hoursunder the proper conditions — namely that the device’s display remained turned off. That’s roughly 5 times longer than the 4 hours and change of popular LTE MiFi hotspots from Novatel and Samsung. (Via…

Here we go again. Pardon me while I get even more nerdy than usual. This is the eve of the closest thing I have to a religious holiday, so bear with me. I’m not suggesting that anything I’m about to say is for the normal, average, reasonable folk who have lives to lead and better things to do. This one is for the ultra-geeks. Everyone else can stop reading now. I’m about to go to bed, so that I can wake up super early and get into…