Tag Archives: apple

Bill Gates vs. John Nash ...

20Feb2007 Leave a comment
It is argua­ble that Apple was more inno­va­tive with tech­no­logy prior to Steve Jobs’s return to power. He dis­sol­ved the ATG, home of the ori­gi­nal Cocoa, and Apple Data Detec­tors, and famously axed the New­ton, con­ti­nued deve­lop­ment of which might have given us the iPhone as a plat­form years ago. But the Newton’s brand had been tain­ted [...]

A more realistic desktop metaphor ...

08Feb2007 Leave a comment
The recent atten­tion to Apple’s patents on “piles” reminds me of an enter­tai­ning con­ver­sa­tion Ryan and I had in 2005. We were caught up in the HDR fad, and lamen­ted how poor iPhoto is at mana­ging pho­tos meant to be grou­ped, as when auto-​​bracketing expo­sure or shoo­ting for pano­rama stitching. As I said aloud that the pro­blem seems [...]

iPhone dreams ...

07Feb2007 Leave a comment
I know it doesn’t mat­ter, but I have so many things I wish my next phone/​PDA could do, I’m going to list them for my own amu­se­ment. Even though most of them won’t hap­pen very soon, at least while the iPhone remains clo­sed to native third-​​party applications. I could manage data with spe­cia­li­zed tools. Special-​​purpose edi­tors [...]

Daily Bookmarks ...

26Jan2007 Leave a comment
Links book­mar­ked on 2007-​​01-​​25 ico­nopho­bia » inli­neRSS A sen­si­ble RSS fetcher Meta­kine — DVDRe­mas­ter — DVD Bac­kup or Per­so­nal Copy for Mac OS X

Daily Bookmarks ...

24Jan2007 1 Comment
Links book­mar­ked on 2007-​​01-​​23 The iPhone User Expe­rience: A First Look Tog loves the iPhone UI and has the same gri­pes I do (no GPS, no inbox aggregation) CHICAGO SUN-​​TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: You could call iPhone per­fect Andy Ihnatko in an unu­sual dis­play of fanboyhood.
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