That was Steve, This is Now. And We’re Just Getting Started
Daring Fireball: ‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7: This is the first product of the post-Jobs Apple. The result shows that in some ways Apple’s software design has gotten better, because it was Jobs (and...
View ArticleA very mild defense of in-app purchases
A very mild defense of in-app purchases « John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site: I come not to praise in-app purchases but to not bury them. Really, I hate the in-app purchase racket. I hate how it’s abused...
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More than you want to know about backups (the 2013 edition)
I think computer users can be broken down into three camps: Computer users who haven’t had a hard disk fail and haven’t yet figured out they need to back up their systems. Computer users who have had a...
View ArticleApple Can’t Ban “Rate This App” Dialogs
Apple Can’t Ban “Rate This App” Dialogs – Marco.org: We could all rate these apps lower as a form of protest, but it’s unlikely to have a meaningful impact. The App Store is a big place. We could vote...
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Why backups matter — this is how it’s supposed to work
Here’s a hint: disk platters aren’t supposed to have visible scrape rings or gouges on them. That’s bad. The good news is, this dead disk drive was only a slight annoyance. I harp about backing...
View ArticleI have committed even more NAS
About six months ago I made the decision to upgrade my work setup to a Network Attached Storage unit and use it for data storage and backups. I talk about that decision here. How did it go? I’m quite...
View Article“Superficial Changes”– Marco.org
“Superficial Changes” – Marco.org: There are plenty of problems with the iOS app ecosystem, but most of them that Apple could reasonably control — and most of Jared’s specific complaints — are App...
View ArticleFacebook Steps In It
Over the weekend Facebook stepped in it in a big way. One of the earliest sites breaking this was A.V. Club: Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen...
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A followup on Facebook
It’s always fascinating to watch what happens when a blog posting goes a bit viral. This is what it looked like on my blog: The peak of this sequence is about 100X my normal traffic levels. Not quite...
View ArticleDeveloper Complaints — some perspective
Let me put a little perspective into the discussions about what developers want out of their platform. Much of this is aimed at Apple, because IOS is the dominant revenue platform, but it’s true of all...
View ArticleHow to fix Yahoo! (some unneeded advice for Marissa Mayer)
Hey, everyone else is telling Marissa Mayer how to fix Yahoo!, I thought I would, too. First of all, congratulations for getting the job. Second, my sympathies. It’s not going to be easy. But this has...
View ArticleNow Imagine If Amazon Had Bought Palm And WebOS
Now Imagine If Amazon Had Bought Palm And WebOS – SplatF: So here’s an interesting exercise: Imagine if Amazon had acquired Palm and WebOS instead of HP. While WebOS and HP’s TouchPad tablet were...
View ArticleLook up the word “cluster” in the dictionary, and you’ll see HP’s logo….
HP’s Smartphone Announcement ‘Soul Crushing,’ Says Matthew McNulty: But Matthew McNulty, the former senior director of the HP Enyo team, Enyo being the successor to webOS, said he would be surprised if...
View ArticleMy first reaction to the new iPhone and Watch
I wanted to write a bit about my initial reactions to today’s announcements and the Watch. My thoughts in many ways mimic Duncan’s. The new Watch is about time about as much as the iPhone is about...
View ArticleHow Apple got the U2 giveaway wrong
I’ve been watching the kerfluffle about Apple giving away the new U2 album with some amusement. It’s really easy to say “watch all of these people complain about getting free stuff” and try to dismiss...
View ArticleA first look at the Health app in IOS 8
(9/28, 12PM — edited to add a few notes at the end about some other things the ICE feature needs to do but doesn’t — chuq) One of the things that intrigued me was the new Health app that came with IOS...
View ArticleLife at Apple revisited….
As an ex-Apple person who was there for a long time, a common question I get is “Would you ever go back?” And that’s a complicated answer. My normal answer is “If the right situation came up, yes”....
View ArticleMy take on Google+ today
As part of my research into both whether to retire as lead in the Bird Photography group and as I’ve been auditing my social media commitments in general, I’ve been trying to get a feel of what’s...
View ArticleThe Apple CES Media Overlay and the leaked 12″ Macbook Air rumors
If it’s time for CES, there’s one thing seemingly guaranteed every year now, it’s that some kind of Apple News will come out, and as one media person I follow noted, “Suck the air out of CES”....
View ArticleThe future of blogging is… blogging.
About a month ago (that’s forever in internet years) Marco posted the note Google and blogs: “Shit.” where the general thought was that his blog traffic was flat and starting to decline over the last...
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