Month: September 2012

Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes an interesting and rather scathing article on Scott Forstall. I’m not sure the maps and Siri problems are fire-able offenses because both were things Apple had to do and both needed user feedback to get better. Now it’s true expectations weren’t managed well, and that’s not good, but fire-able? However if it […]

There’s not much reason to write an iPhone 5 review, as John Gruber truly said it best: I own things that cost and remain worth more (e.g. my car). But I own nothing this nice. There is however a few things that I have noted in my week plus of using the device that I […]

“And Fake Steve is dead, but the self-important drama queen lives on.” — The Macalope

Chuck Skoda: What was more unexpected was the size of the Lightning connector. The marketing images don’t quite do justice to how small it is, and the size isn’t the end of the improvements. It’s really small — blew me away when I saw it t first. The connector actually seems delicate, but at the […]

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal: It’s officially illegal for employers and universities in California to request social media log-in information—that is, user names and passwords for Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail—from employees and students. When I first heard about this being a common thing when trying to get a new job, I honestly thought it was a joke. […]

Chris Morran on a TSA agent stealing an iPad ABC intentionally left behind: “I’m so embarrassed,” he explained to ABC. “My wife says she got the iPad and brought it home.” When asked how his wife, who is not a TSA officer, could have “found” the iPad when it had been left at an airport […]

John Gruber on the iPhone 5 camera: Looking at the EXIF data, the big difference is that the photo shot with the built-in Camera app on the iPhone 5 had an ISO speed of 2500; the other three all maxed out at 800. It appears the iPhone 5 can go up to ISO 3200. I […]

Honest question: why did they need to fake an address to “beat” Apple? Why not just show Street View versus Flyover? Seems like that is more honest and more telling of the feature dis-parity between the two. Another way would be to show one of the many “melting” bridges, or to advertise your market leading […]

For the larger iPhone 5 screen size, Apple didn’t just scale up their weather UI. They added to it.

Lukas Mathis on the iPhone 5’s screen size: There is no one perfect screen size that fits everybody’s hands. He has a screenshot of what looks to be the iPhone 5 commercial. The thing that strikes me most about that commercial is that Apple is clearly trying to convey to skeptics that you can easily […]

After today I will be turning off Feedburner and sticking with just the built in RSS feed system. Most of you that use Google Reader should roll over to the new feed (in theory) without having to do a thing. However if you don’t use Google Reader you will need to replace the Feedburner URL […]

A fun episode of Shawn and I taking questions from readers. Everything from bags to coffee roasting.

Apple has, to my knowledge, never exclusively used a non-numeric name for their operating systems since OS X. Yes, they refer to 10.8 as “Mountain Lion”, but they also fall back on the “10.8” monicker when needed. I’m reminded of just how important this fact is by the exploit found on Android devices and it […]