Saturday, September 15, 2012
Mat Honan, writing at Wired’s Gadget Lab blog: It is an amazing triumph of technology that gets better and better, year after year, and yet somehow is every bit as exciting as a 25 mph drive through a sensible neighborhood at a reasonable time of day. I am still waiting for Verizon to push Jelly …Thursday, September 13, 2012
Hamish McKenzie, writing at PandoDaily : With two product launches in a row that show Apple is merely keeping pace with innovation rather than leading it, the world’s most valuable company will start to seem mortal. I disagree. For the record, I’m usually on board with Mr. McKenzie’s analyses, and …Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Gruber on “Amazon’s Play”John Gruber writes one of the most respected and prolific tech blogs on the web, Daring Fireball. Some people deride him as a blindly-worshipful Apple fanboy who delights in pointing out the failed attempts of other companies to copy Apple’s products and …Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A Vision for the Future of Newspapers—20 Years AgoMark Potts, writing about his major part in what might be properly called the genesis of the first digital publishing strategy: As someone said when they saw PostCard a few years later, “It looks like the Web.” Except that, in those early days of …Saturday, August 18, 2012
Boom Makes Your Mac Speakers Go Up To 11If you’ve ever wanted your Mac to be louder (as I often did before buying this app), Boom is worth the money. Here’s a direct link to the App Store.Saturday, August 18, 2012
Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s article at Fortune is one of many today about the revelations coming out of the Apple v. Samsung trial. But his headline is the main reason I had to share this link. It must feel …Saturday, August 18, 2012
Apple’s Secrets Revealed at TrialIan Sherr, writing for the Wall Street Journal: In cross-examination, Mr. Forstall said Eddy Cue, now head of Apple’s Internet services efforts, had used a 7-inch Samsung tablet for a time, and sent an email to Chief Executive Tim Cook that he believed “there …Monday, July 30, 2012
Don’t believe the ‘Apple invests in Twitter’ hype In fact, an Apple investment in Twitter is painted as something Twitter can take or leave, but a partnership Apple desperately needs. Tim Carmody makes a great point in this piece.Friday, July 27, 2012
Geek preferences matter We installed Firefox on every non-geek’s computer we could find. And while we were there, we set everyone’s search engine to Google instead of Yahoo or MSN, and we made fun of their AOL email addresses until they switched to Gmail. Our preferences matter. I took this quote …Thursday, July 26, 2012
Apple TV: The Soon-To-Be #1 Gaming Console?MG Siegler points out that, despite Apple CEO Tim Cook’s quiet mention of Apple TV, the little box Steve Jobs once called Apple’s hobby has sold more units than the best-selling Xbox 360 gaming console. Not bad for a hobby.Thursday, May 3, 2012
Analyst Brian Marshall, to SFGate’s Jun Yang: As the markets get more saturated, the pressure will be much stronger to add more screen sizes. "Today, the answer is no," he said. "Down the road, the answer is yes," he said. No way. The only source of pressure on Apple to do anything is the …