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Apple, Google, and 3rd-Party Developers
Amid the Colorful colors and parallaxes at Monday’s WWDC keynote, tucked away in the lower-left, was an icon that struck terror into the hearts of literally thousands of developers: a tiny flashlight....
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Vine for Android: Not Good Enough
Vine for Android: a puzzling design decision to some of us Vine has been available for Android for a couple of weeks, and my verdict is that it just does not provide a good experience at this time....
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Nintendo is not Apple
^ That’s a compliment, not an insult. The similarities between Nintendo and Apple seem overwhelming at first blush: They both develop tightly integrated hardware/software experiences. Apple’s...
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What would it take for Google to decline?
A recent thread in /r/AskReddit posed a similar question. The comments were revelatory, with plenty of resigned jokes about the heat death of the universe, antitrust proceedings, and the (unlikely)...
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Stephen King’s “Cell” and the pre-iPhone era
Just started reading a Stephen King novel from 2006, “Cell.” Right before 9/11, I went through a phase in which I read most of his 1970s and 1980s work, before my reading time was taken up by more...
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Strong versus weak dollar (also, Apple)
A fistful of dollars/for a few barrels more Everyone wants a strong dollar, right? In the U.S., politicians will pay lip service to the notion of a strong dollar – i.e., in their minds, a dollar that...
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Technology Doesn’t Cause Change
If you’ve read nearly any technology news site or blog in the last 15 years, you’ve probably encountered articles that told you how the Internet has “changed everything,” or how technology is forcing...
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Having Fun with Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
There’s been a recent surge in attention given to a relatively obscure British journalist’s thoughts on headline writing. “Betteridge’s Law” is the informal term for the argument that any (usually...
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The problem with LinkedIn
By classical metrics like revenue and profit, LinkedIn is the most successful social network other than Facebook. Unlike Facebook, however, it uses a seemingly more sustainable freemium business...
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Using TextWrangler to write poetry
One of creative writing’s decisive advantages over similar arts is its low barrier to entry. The writer needs little more than a way to produce text, whether word processor, blog template, or pen and...
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