Nice chart.

Stephen Hackett:

iCloud may become a direct competitor of Dropbox’s, but at the purposes of the services are different at this point.

On iOS the file system is abstracted away altogether. Bringing iCloud to the desktop Mac is just the next step towards abstracting away the file system on OS X as well.

Danny Sullivan hits a lot of the same things that I was feeling in regards to the inconstancies of the UI in points. Especially the “triple-colon”.

A weblog by Grant Paul documenting some of the UI inconsistencies in Android 4.0. (Via Matthew Panzarino.)

My thanks to Omni Group for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

We’re hoping you decided to check out the trial of OmniFocus after our sponsorship earlier this month. Here’s a quick 5-step jumpstart.

1. Capture everything. Take 15 minutes to move things out of your head and in to OmniFocus. Anything from long-term goals (earn pilots license) to quick errands (card for mother).
2. Define next actions. “Earn pilots license” deserves its own project. Move it to your library and decide what to do next.
3. Organize actions with contexts. “Research area flight schools” might be assigned to a Mac context for googling, “card for mother” to Walgreen’s.
4. Now we do stuff. If you’re at the office, focus on work projects to get stuff done!
5. Review mode. Take time to consider each active project. Does it need some work?

Find out more about OmniFocus here, and don’t hesitate to ask questions.

Jon Hicks’ new book is now available. It looks fantastic in both design and content. Congrats, Jon!

Mike Isaac wrote this article for Wired last week about the growing trend from tech companies to just get a product out the door as soon as possible and then ship software updates later in hopes to improve the usability of the device.

Personally, if it’s a matter of trade-off, I would rather have a device that had less fanciness and features in exchange for speed and reliability and consistency in what it does do. Because if there are features missing altogether (like the quintessential example of copy and paste on the early versions of iOS) then it is easier to settle the issue that you cannot do that. But having a device that is feature rich yet buggy and inconsistent is like a constant annoyance.

David Pogue reports that last night’s software update to the Kindle Fire makes a lot of the maddening software issues less balky:

Sure enough: the home screen “carousel,” a rotating shelf that holds all of your books, magazines and movies, now stops on a dime when you want it to. It takes only one tap to open something instead of several frustrating ones. When you do tap something, it opens faster and more fluidly. Page turns are smoother, especially in magazines.

Dwight Silverman also noticed an improvement:

I dropped [the software update] onto my Kindle Fire review unit and noticed an immediate improvement in the device’s responsiveness.

I don’t have a Kindle Fire, so I can’t say one way or the other if the update is actually as impressive as it sounds. The only other “eye witness” to the Fire’s speed improvements I found was this comment by “00QuantaMeister” on Mashable.

Love this new Apple commercial. We saw it a couple times on Sunday as we watched KC beat Green Bay (sweet!) and New England beat Denver (not sweet).

Dave Morin, co-founder of Path, gives three answers. The first one is an interesting observation:

First, we are now in the Post-PC, Mobile era. In the PC era we would often ask: are you online or offline? In the Mobile era this is no longer the case. You are simply sleeping or awake.

He took a much more objective approach than Marco and I did, by comparing the number of reviews on Amazon.com for each of the new Kindles as well as searching on Twitter for images of “New Kindle”. And according to David’s findings, the Fire is selling the most.

Amazon said yesterday that they are selling over 1 million Kindle devices per week. But they gave no hint as to the breakdown.

Marco Arment looked at his affiliate links since the beginning of October, and sees the Kindle 4 being the top selling Kindle in his circle of the Web. So I did the same, and looked back at my affiliate links for both shawnblanc.net and Tools and Toys.

This is how the Kindle sales break down for my neck of the woods:

Where Marco sees a huge lean towards the Kindle 4 (the device that he recommended), I see a huge lean towards the Kindle Touch (the device that I recommended). But we are both seeing that the Fire is a poor seller comparatively.

Rasmus Larsen:

Super AMOLED Plus ensures perfect detailing and text reproduction. Super AMOLED shares sub pixels making text appear fuzzy.

The Galaxy Nexus has a Super AMOLED display (no plus). I’ve been using a review unit that’s on loan from Verizon, and the display on the Galaxy Nexus is nice, but it’s not Retina display nice. On the Nexus small text looks crisp and colors are bright, but if I hold it up close to my eye it is easier to make out the pixels than on the iPhone 4/4S display.

(Via Doug Stephen.)