Monday, November 23, 2009
Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle
One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Herd Mentality
So of course there’s some degree of herd mentality in every industry.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store
Tuesday’s piece on Ninjawords was really about two stories. The small story is that of a clever $2 iPhone dictionary app, the developers of which removed “objectionable” words from its dictionary so as to get it published in the App Store.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Charging for Access to News Sites
John Plunkett, reporting for the Guardian last week, in a story titled “Financial Times Editor Says Most News Websites Will Charge Within a Year”:
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Apple’s Secrecy
This whole Jobs liver transplant story really hits the sweet spot for two of my obsessions: Apple and journalism. It’s the journalism angle that I find the most intriguing.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Complex
If there’s a formula to Apple’s (AAPL) success over the past 10 years, that’s it. Start with something simple and build it, grow it, improve it, steadily over time. Evolve it.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Untitled Document Syndrome
Scenario: You have an idea for something, start a new document in an appropriate app, and then work for hours before realizing you haven’t yet saved the document? Sometimes this spells disaster: hours of work gone. But what strikes me as odd is when I catch myself doing it, it’s almost always with a new untitled document window, not an existing file with unsaved changes.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
iPhone-Likeness
Anyone involved in Mac software development is familiar with arguments over whether a particular app is “Mac-like.” In the early days of the Mac–the first decade or so–the entire Mac community was largely in agreement about just what this meant. To be un-Mac-like was to be ignorant of the fundamental concepts and norms of the Mac OS.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The iPhone 3G: Macro and Micro
If I could travel back 20 years and show my then 15-year-old self just one thing the future of today, it would be the iPhone. It is our flying car.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Twice as Fast, Half the Price
Monday’s message is pretty simple: Apple is going for iPhone market share in a big, big way. The iPhone 3G seemingly only has two major hardware additions: 3G networking and GPS. The battery, I suspect, might be stronger (and, given the shape of the back of the iPhone 3G, perhaps a stronger but bigger battery. No front-facing camera. No video from the rear camera. Instead of building a better $400 iPhone, they worked on halving the price of last year’s phone.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
BlackBerry vs. iPhone
Along the lines of can’t-really-be-answered-but- gosh-they’re-fun-to-ponder questions like, say, “Who’d win in a fight, Batman or Spider-Man?” or “Star Destroyer vs. U.S.S. Enterprise?” here’s one regarding the iPhone: What historical Mac is a current iPhone most analogous to, spec-wise? I.E., complete this sentence: “An iPhone is like having a tiny ____ in your pocket?”
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