I’m sorry. I’m just not a fan of the headphone jack being on the bottom of the new iPhone. I’ve heard the positive arguments. The lack of a cable draping over your screen. Not having to “flip” the phone around when putting it into your pocket while headphones are plugged in. Whatever. My issue is mainly with taking the phone out of my pocket. I’m left-handed, but I generally put my iPhone in my right pants pocket. This makes sense, when you think about it. The…

Apple makes the left turn at Albuquerque: What’s being ignored, no doubt to the frustration of Apple’s designers, is that the visual design of the new Maps application is amazing. Ask for your current location and just start zooming out slowly. Pay attention to when titles fade out and fade in, and how the typography changes: the way neighborhood names appear in faint grey in close range, then city names appear, then the cities become mixed case or small caps, then eventually state/province names appear—and if…

By now you’ve probably seen the thousand or so stories criticizing Apple’s new Maps app in iOS 6. As this is sure to be the Apple scandal of 2012, right up there with “antennagate”, I think I’ll leave it to others to write up their own personal disaster stories. You’re probably bored of that already. Instead, I want to talk about what I think is a much bigger problem for Apple: the iOS Clock app for iPad. Now, bear with me; I know you probably get…

What you need to know about the iPhone 5 and 5GHz Wi-Fi | Macworld: Kish was recently at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., where a Ruckus Wi-Fi network had been installed, for a live event. He speed-tested his Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone in the network: 60.33Mbps download, and 58.78Mbps upload. “60Mbps is a serious amount of throughput to a mobile device under real-world conditions!” he says. “I have my fingers crossed that the iPhone 5 delivers similar results.” (Via www.macworld.com) This is…

I had a blast speaking at this year’s 360iDev. As I promised my audience at the end of the talk, here are some of the articles I found while doing research over the past few months. Some great writers took the time to share their thoughts and helped shape mine on the subject. I owe them my gratitude. Making money in a crowded App Store: it’s dog eat dog and Spy vs Spy Richard Gaywood Death of the Free Web Cap Watkins. Screenwriters react to new Final Draft…