Posted in Apple on September 24th, 2013 No Comments »
FORTUNE -- I'm sure Tim Cook is hugely competent, a wonderful operating executive, and a real nice guy. But as CEO of the world's most respected high-tech franchise, he has been an unmitigated disaster. Uhm, okay… I'll respectfully disagree. 😛
Posted in Apple on September 21st, 2013 No Comments »
The Most Forward Thinking Apple Yet has the subtitle "What the 64-bit capable iOS 7 and the M7 chip really mean".
Posted in Apple on September 20th, 2013 No Comments »
Steve came to me and he said, "I want to drop the price of the Macintosh and I want to move the advertising, shift a large portion of it away from the Apple 2 over to the Mac." I said, "Steve, it's not going to make any difference. The reason the Mac is not selling […]
Posted in Apple on September 19th, 2013 No Comments »
Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction: I got this one wrong. … In marketing, what looks new is new.
Posted in Apple on September 18th, 2013 No Comments »
Apple has avoided NFC, and all the rumors about NFC getting added to iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 are turned out to be false. Instead of NFC, Apple worked on alternatives using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. During the introduction of iOS 7′s AirDrop at WWDC in June, Apple's mobile development chief Craig Federighi said, "There's no […]
Posted in Apple on September 17th, 2013 No Comments »
Do you use a password, fingerprint, etc. on your iPhone? Always Sometimes Never View Results
Posted in Apple on September 16th, 2013 No Comments »
Alex King uses one of his screens as a Stickies Screen. The idea is interesting, but I'd want my Stickies to sync between computers if I was to do this, I think.
Posted in Apple on September 13th, 2013 No Comments »
Requirements for a true Mac keyboard. Meh. Some may think I'm just not cool or discerning or whatever, but I've always been plenty happy with the keyboards Apple ships. I type as much as almost anyone I know, and even the stupid aluminum keyboard you get with the Mac Pro is fine. As are the […]
Posted in Apple on September 1st, 2013 No Comments »
Aggarwal was impressed by the way Jobs was willing to take a risk to realize his vision. "In one meeting in the conference room with Jobs, he was annoyed that AT&T was spending too much time worrying about the risks of the deal. So he said, ‘You know what we should do to stop them […]
Posted in Apple on August 31st, 2013 No Comments »
For years there was this running joke that Steve had changed, that he was no longer that guy who made us all uncomfortable. Then an hour or a day later he'd do something that would show he hadn't really changed at all. And yet at some point Steve did change. It was subtle but real […]
Posted in Apple on August 30th, 2013 No Comments »
Really? It'll probably sell well, but I'll stick with black. And the bright green case I use to find my phone, because black is tough to see sometimes. 🙂
Posted in Apple on August 29th, 2013 No Comments »
Mac Pro Trailer from Apple:
Posted in Apple on August 28th, 2013 No Comments »
Repair Permissions won't touch any files in any of the user's home folders since Installer.app can't target user folders specifically, only any folder or a specific path, and there are no packages in ~/Library/Receipts/. The only way it'd ever touch any files in a user's folder is if you installed something that let you explicity […]
Posted in Apple on August 26th, 2013 No Comments »
Also titled: The History of the "Boo-Dah-Ling" Sound. Neat!
Posted in Apple on August 24th, 2013 No Comments »
As much as Apple will benefit from getting new customers with an entry level iPhone that benefits their ecosystem so will Google. We know Google makes more on iOS than Android and interestingly an entry level iPhone will likely help Google’s bottom line as well. Source