Now 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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