An article on TUAW about the history of the MacBook Air prompted me to think back in early 2010, when I was comparison shopping for a lightweight laptop. My search had come down to four choices: the Toshiba Portégé M800, the Panasonic Y5, the Lenovo ThinkPad X301, and the MacBook Air. At the time, these [...]
This year has been a sad one for technology. First, it was Ken Olsen in February, the founder of DEC. Then just today, it was Steve Jobs. Both men played their role in pioneering advances in technology, but the thing I take away from these two is that they sought to make things both simpler [...]
Apple is probably thanking PayPal and Google for priming the pump of digital wallets and consumer adoption.
A post on how Apple’s iOS subscription plan isn’t primarily about subscription revenue, which is a smaller slice of the pie. Instead, it’s a strategic move to harness the value-add component of the larger slice of the pie, which is advertising revenue.
Before we explore this idea further, I’d like to point out that Apple’s App Store is unique as an entity, but hardly any different from Handango or BPlay. These portals which supported many mobile devices and PDAs aggregated downloadable software offerings for users to load onto their (sometimes, at the time) connected devices. With this [...]
Apple is a fantastic case study for a topic like this and I would start off by comparing the new Shuffle (3G) versus the prior version. Controls The 2G Shuffle The 3G Shuffle Primary Input 5 buttons (press or press-hold variations) 3 buttons (click, hold, or multiple click variations) Feedback Method Visual (LEDs) Visual (LEDs), [...]
