The 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleiTunes and Podcasts
Apple’s Podcasting Stroke of Genius | Cult of Mac: The rumor and/or speculation is that Apple will spin podcasts out into a separate app (but keep it in the desktop version of iTunes). This prediction...
View ArticleThe inside story of the death of Palm and webOS
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS | The Verge: Thirty-one. That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere...
View Articlehomebrew vs. jailbreak
In the comments to my previous post, Suzi asked a question that deserved a detailed answer, so I’m turning it into another blog post… so, do you think the webOS way (developer mode) is better choice?...
View ArticleNo, iOS is not a prison
No, iOS is not a prison – Technovia: I too wish that Apple would introduce an optional ability to install unapproved apps. Although, when you think about it, jailbreaking provides that ability right...
View ArticleA couple of words about Meg…
HP’s Meg Whitman is cautiously optimistic that tech giant is stabilizing | VentureBeat: Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman said in a conference call with analysts that she is “cautiously...
View ArticleThe Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
Call Me Fishmeal.: The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades: The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers, but has an enormous flaw: it needs to allow developers to charge existing...
View ArticleDealing with Crap apps in the catalog
There’s a kerfluffle going on with the Apple App Catalog over “crap app”, which is a bit of a misnomer because the primary anger is being aimed at developers who build apps aimed at grabbing money with...
View ArticleWhy don’t MacBooks come with cellular networking? – Marco.org
Why don’t MacBooks come with cellular networking? – Marco.org: If Apple wants to offer 4G in MacBooks, they can start whenever they want. Doing it properly will just take a bit more effort than adding...
View ArticleRisk Aversion
Risk Aversion | Cap Watkins: Was having an interesting conversation this morning with Om and Hunter about the recent firing of Richard Williamson from Apple over the Maps debacle. Hunter posed a...
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