Monday, September 9, 2013
John Gruber on the convergence of smartphones and tablets John Gruber: Better, I think, not to treat smartphones and tablets as separate categories, but merely as different sizes of the same thing. I think he is absolutely right, but even a year ago I would have argued like a lunatic against that …Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The 128 GB iPad is official……but I’m not interested. Peter Cohen of The Loop shared this earlier today, but I wonder why he didn’t offer any of his own thoughts on it. Here’s why I’m not interested: Part of the iPad’s appeal to me is that it isn’t another crufty “filing cabinet.” I rather …Monday, November 5, 2012
When 32GB is really 16GB…Microsoft is taking heat for claiming more user-available disk space on its new ARM-based Windows 8-powered Surface tablet than is really there. But I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Most companies are lying in their commercials, product pages, and press …Saturday, October 27, 2012
Marco Arment goes to a Microsoft storeThe link above and what it describes are far more damning than any of Microsoft’s shitty advertising and messaging.Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Amazon heads off app fragmentation on Kindle Fire, AndroidKevin C. Tofel, writing at GigaOM: This could mean vastly better tablet apps for the higher resolution Kindle Fires similar to the improved iPad apps that iOS developers made instead of scaled-up iPhone software. I think he’s right: …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 …