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I have gone back and forth with people many times about how expensive Apple products are and how it’s
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Goodies: September 15
Well, it appears we all survived the onslaught of Apple news last week and have stumbled into that awkward in-between
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Bite Size Tech #19: Apple Continues to Fire on All Cylinders
My roundup of Apple's announcements last week. iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, watchOS, all the things!!!
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3D Touch is the biggest UI change to iOS since multitasking
I think 3D Touch is the biggest thing to change in iOS’s interface since multitasking was introduced in iOS
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Tim Cook's Apple is Still the Apple We Know and Love
Walt Mossberg writing for The Verge
But this week’s event convinced me that Apple remains the world’s most
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How Many Times Can the Tech Press be Wrong About Video Games?
One of my pet peeves is reading a tech reporter discuss how video games are dying and smartphones are going
Apple is Firing on All Cylinders
Joshua Topolsky writing for The New Yorker
Part of the reason why Apple’s “me too”s end up feeling
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Thinking Twice About the New NetNewsWire
Ben Brooks takes a look at NetNewsWire 4 and why he is giving up on it.
The biggest difference with
How Today's Apple Products Impact the Birchler Budget
Apple had quite the day, and I think they did quite well overall. This was definitely a better showing than
Full of Excitement
So it's the morning before Apple's big September event and our corner of the internet is
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Goodies: September 8, 2015
Good morning! I hope you had a nice holiday weekend (non-US readers, I hope you had a lovely normal weekend)
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Bite Size Tech #18: 3 Best and Worst Things About The Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung thinks they can convince me to kick my iPhone to the curb and replace it with their Galaxy S6
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An iPhone Lover's Review of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung offered iPhone users a 30 day test drive of one of their high-end Galaxy phones for the low, low
Overflowing Frustration
I've been testing a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge for the past week and was planning on sharing my
Thoughts on Apple TV Rumors
A couple days ago Apple rumor king Mark Gurman reported on some specific features of the new Apple TV. There&
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A Passionate Plea to Bring Back Google's Old Logo
Why You Hate Google's New Logo by Sarah Larson
The new logo retains the rainbow of colors but
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A User Interface Disaster (of course it's from Samsung)
"Maybe he's doing it wrong."
That's what I was thinking that entire video. Surely
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Apple Sticks With You
G. Keenan Schneider writes about his time working at a Apple Store in Leaving Apple:
I truly believe that Apple