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As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most trusted (and talented) senior executives…
If you want a device that is bigger than a phone, but smaller and more holdable than a laptop-screen-sized thing for reading and just walking around with, the iPad Mini is it.
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and…
This “feature” accomplishes nothing of value for anyone, including the streaming services, but imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to easily capture high-quality (as opposed to, say, using their damn phone to take a photograph of their reflective…
So instead of trying to sell half a million phones to *anyone*, try to sell half a million phones to a specific target: people in the market for the latest and greatest phone in the world.
Link to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-overview-search.html
Why not drop H.264 support from Android and YouTube, too?
You can’t make something conceptually lightweight if it’s carrying 25 years of Windows baggage.
On Malcolm Gladwell’s argument that Jobs was a “tweaker” and not a “large-scale innovator”.
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor — and that anyone would expect Apple not to retaliate, to instead just sit there and take it and allow all other aspects of their previous buddy-buddy corporate…
The Great White Nope.
I have two issues regarding Gizmodo’s actions regarding this story.
On Wednesday afternoon I received a thoughtful email from Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller regarding Ninjawords and the App Store, and I think it bodes well.
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.
Link to: https://join.app.net/
This is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.
The nascent mobile computing market has much more in common with the traditional consumer electronics market than it does with the PC industry, and that works very much in Apple’s favor.
Imagine going back in time to tell a MacPaint user in 1985 that they’d have to learn how to use Undo in an Apple-award-winning paint app in 2018. That’s where we are.
It’s taken decades of iterative refinement to get to this point — a nearly perfect laptop for nearly everyone.
Link to: https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1UfNLdZAN4h
Link to: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13036012/a-note-from-the-editor-in-chief-about-chris-ziegler
We Got Caught Doing Something We Were Kind of Hoping No One Would Notice and Now We’re Nervously Placing Exclamation Marks at the End of Our Media Alert Headlines!
Regarding the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display.
Apple’s new privacy rules will only work if Apple enforces them — even in China.
Link to: https://www.threads.net/@eric_seufert/post/CwAiop2OM8U/
Microsoft is increasingly left only with customers whose priority is price.