Winer’s explanation is purely speculative, and some might call it a conspiracy theory. But it points to a big issue for free speech in the cloud: what happens if one, smaller customer criticizes a bigger customer? In the Web 1.0 era, if you got kicked off a Web host you just found another. Today, the [...]
[29 Dec 2010]
So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t [...]
[4 Feb 2010]
Peter-Paul Koch responds to recent claims that Apple is damaging its brand with its archaic iPhone App Store approval process. He says, quite plainly, iPhone developers are stupid. Why? In order to release an iPhone application without having to submit it to Apple’s insane App Store process, developers could just use Web technologies and create [...]
[23 Nov 2009]
If you ask Paul Graham, Apple’s App Store process is starting to affect the Apple brand. He bought a shiny new 27″ iMac, but: So I bought it, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings. I felt the way I’d feel buying something made in a country with a bad human rights [...]
[19 Nov 2009]
But the hoodie belonged to the Noughties. I don’t believe it was just about the ASBO generation hiding their faces from CCTV, either. It’s more practical than that. If you spend all your time hanging around on the street in a coldish, wettish country, a hood will keep you warm, and stops the rain spoiling [...]
[13 Nov 2009]
This is a post from 2006. Apple has released new MacBook models since then. As a result, this post is now obsolete and inaccurate. Something I learned while digging around the System Preferences on my MacBook: Mac OS X features what they call “Trackpad gestures.” Depending on which Trackpad gestures you enable, you can: Scroll [...]
[29 Aug 2006]