A collection of 41 posts
Almost never. Truly, what are you expecting to accomplish? Will your day be brightened by someone else hating something they used to love? If someone says, "I love this thing!" and you hate it, don't feel compelled to reply that "actually, it sucked." I'm not saying to keep it to
We all have our our biases. If you read that sentance and thought “not I!” then you’re just fooling yourself. We all have things we believe to be true or to be better than other things, it’s just a fact of life. At best we can resist those
There's been a general shit storm that's blown up this week over the supposed removal of the headphone jack off the upcoming iPhone 7. Nilay Patel's piece for The Verge really got people fired up: Look, I know you’re going to tell me that the traditional TRS headphone jack
Well I sure picked a bad day to spend offline! Apple caused quite a stir in the past 24 hours by posting an open letter in which Tim Cook states plainly that Apple will not comply with the FBI's request to create a backdoor into the iPhone 5C. For a
OS X + iOS = AppleOS, one app to rule them all — Apple World Today I do think the two operating systems will merge somewhere down the road into, simply,"AppleOS." The trick for Apple will be to make AppleOS as easy for consumers and newbies as iOS currently is, while still
Well, another podcast app has gone free, and with it, the gnashing of teeth has already begun. Here's how developer Supertop worded the decision it in their announcement: Yesterday, Supertop needed an endless stream of thousands of new customers to sustain our business. From today, we can be successful with
As we continue to dive deeper and deeper into this post-PC world, I find myself thinking more about what things we used to find essential about computers that are being tossed aside as we hurdle towards the future. With this week’s news that Apple is working on a keyboard
Let’s not beat around the bush anymore and start calling the cameras in our phones what they really are, cameras. Yup, they’re just plain old cameras. There’s no longer a need to specify that they’re not a “real camera” anymore. I know it’s semantics, but
Andy Ihnatko on the impact of ad blockers: [T]hank God that the ad industry is finally seeing large-scale pushback. That’s often what’s necessary. An industry (or a business, or even just a person) assumes that you’re OK with certain behavior and policies unless you somehow communicate
Image via Business Insider There are many reasons that stores encroaching in on the holidays is bad for employees, and they have been, and will continue to be discussed over the next 2 months. But sadly this discussion in't going to get anything changed. We've been having this same conversation
Google made some headlines this week when they announced that they will be providing podcasts as a part of their Google Play Music service. Podcasters can submit their shows today and the feature will actually go live in the coming weeks. The big thing I have seen some people bring
Sometimes we all get a little frustrated with where we are in life. The prospect of The American Dream seems harder to achieve than it was 40, 30, or even 20 years ago. And even if you argue that it is just as challenging as it's ever been, I think
YouTube announced that they will be rolling out a paid YouTube service next week on October 28 called YouTube Red. After years of giving it all away for free, they’re finally asking for a little out of their customers’ pockets. The cost At $9.99 per month (or $12.
Federico Viticci has long been expanding on the merits of Editorial, a text editor for iOS. This app plays a big role in his everyday work and enables him to run his business from his iPad. That’s a pretty stunning statement, and one that many people will tell you
There was a bit of chatter online yesterday over Marco Arment’s decision to make Overcast free and only make money on it though a patronage program. Essentially, he’s doing the Radiohead model of “pay what you want” for the app. Marco said he did this as a way