Imagine Street Fighter but with history’s greatest scientists
Darwin. Hawking. Einstein. Tesla. Newton. Curie. Pythagoras of Samos. Each one has expanded our understanding of the physical world. And yet, somehow, we’ve never honored these luminaries with a 16-bit fighting game, until now.
Dieter Bohn, reviewing the new BlackBerry Classic:
The keyboard is the entire reason for this phone to exist, so let’s talk about it. It’s great, like really great. It’s possible — probable even — that I am just as fast with a good software keyboard as I am with the Classic’s keyboard. But the BlackBerry feels better to type on. The keys click just so, with the carefully designed ridges that register the right letter no matter how you fat-finger it. There simply isn’t a more satisfying typing experience to be had with two thumbs.
I always thought it made sense for BlackBerry to double-down on their strength (keyboards), which many viewed as their weakness rather than chase after their actual weaknesses (UI, apps, etc). So this is promising.
But not so fast… Bohn ends the review with a roundhouse kick to the head:
When I was right out of high school, I inherited a pretty nice typewriter. I thought it would help me focus. I loved the mechanics of literally pounding out every keystroke, watching ink get slammed onto the page with definitive force. It made me feel like a writer. Literary. Serious. I loved it for the month I used it.
But then I wanted to actually succeed in college, so I bought a computer and got to work. The typewriter became a handsome conversation piece in my living room, not a thing I actually wrote with. Because nostalgia is great for furniture, but not for getting work done. The BlackBerry Classic is worthy of your sympathy, but not your dollars.
Intimate Photos From the Golden Age of Silicon Valley | Steve Jobs Pretending to Be Human. Menlo Park, California, 1987. Menuez: "Steve was not the kind of guy who ever seemed to relax. He was usually focused like a laser on the task at hand. So it was surprising to see Steve kicking this beach ball around at a company picnic. He seemed to be having a good time, but it felt more like a performance designed to encourage the team to relax." Doug Menuez | WIRED.com - is this the forerunner to the "beachball of death" on the Mac?
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