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Open Letter To Steve Jobs Concerning The HTC Lawsuits

    10:51 on March 04th, 2010 , ,

Wil Shipley:
Enforcing patents is wrong. You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse? Whether an idea was patented doesn’t change the morality of copying it, it only changes the ability to sue.
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Why The iPad Doesn’t Have Multi-Tasking

    12:39 on January 30th, 2010 , , , , , ,

One of the things discussed about the new Apple tablet, other than its lack of Flash, is its apparent lack of multi-tasking. Multi-tasking, of course, being the ability to listen to music or radio while playing Flight Control. I’d like to talk about that, because I’m pretty sure I know why there’s no multi-tasking, and [...]

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Games On The iPad: Here’s A Thought

    10:43 on January 28th, 2010 ,

Yesterday, Apple revealed a much hyped tablet PC, which apparently runs all current iPhone apps right out of the box. With a pixel doubler, if you want it, even.
Unimpressive as that may sound, this holds the potential to alleviate pixel shaders to great effect. Think 3D iPad games which run in hi-res, full detail [...]

Apple Vs. Woolworths Vs. Perspective

    15:15 on October 06th, 2009

Apple is suing Australian retailer Woolworths over their recently redesigned logo. Sure, it’s probably just a matter of Apple protecting their trademark, sure it’s probably even a semi-automated corporate lawsuit that just has to happen for various odd reasons. I wonder if Woolworths will settle this for 80.000 USD like Apple Corps did. Here’s a [...]

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No Tab Left Behind

    18:07 on February 24th, 2009 , , , , , , ,

With the new Safari 4 beta, Apple is taking a page from the book of Opera and Google Chrome and moving their browser tabs all the way to the top:
While not an incredibly original idea, it is a good idea and there are a number of reasons why. First of all, it optimizes the amount [...]

Running Windows On The Mac: Did It Ever Work? [Update 3: Returning It]

    20:06 on February 16th, 2009 , , , , , , , ,

Just last week, I bought myself a brand new unibody Macbook Pro 15, a rather expensive piece of hardware. I bought it, expecting it to run Windows natively via multi-boot; Apple advertises that their Boot Camp feature will do just this:
[Mac OSX] Leopard is the world’s most advanced operating system. So advanced, it even lets [...]

The Quest For A Sturdy Laptop

    11:07 on January 24th, 2009 , ,

A coworker and myself are looking for laptops in the “desktop replacement” class. That means fairly fast computers sporting plenty of RAM and dedicated graphics cards. That means prices in the 1500 ranges. These are all Fisherprice plastic concoctions, however, and therein lies the problem. Can it really be true, that only Apple makes truly [...]

Flash And Quicktime: Not Sitting In A Tree

    12:17 on February 13th, 2008 , , , ,

In a recent piece, News Flash: No Flash, John Gruber writes that he finds it unlikely for Flash to appear on the iPhone any time soon. He’s right, as usual, but he’s got a few details wrong.

bq. The single most popular thing people use Flash for is to watch YouTube videos, which you can already watch a subset of using the native Mobile OS X YouTube app. In short, is the lack of Flash keeping people from buying iPhones and iPod Touches?

Right, but wrong. Video is great, but the coming battle won’t be about video. I dare predict that Apple has a dirty secret in their pocket, a secret that’s ready to explode. A secret that’ll bring them head to head (more so) with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla. Possibly even Sony and Nintendo.

Reeling From Sidereel

    10:46 on January 25th, 2008 , ,

Sidereel.com is the discovery of the month. It’s a website that gathers links to TV-shows hosted on a plethora of video services all over the web. While it _looks_ legal, however, I’m pretty sure it’s not. But it should be.

Gestures Is The New Black

    11:04 on January 17th, 2008 , ,

Multi-touch trackpad. For me, that was the most interesting aspect of the just-announced-days-ago Apple Macbook Air. Unlike normal trackpads, a multi-touch trackpad also accepts input from two or more fingers. Before, you could only point, now you can pinch, swipe and turn; any gesture that requires more than one digit (or person).

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