There I sat, in my home office, two minutes after midnight, white 16GB iPad mini in my shopping cart on the Apple Online Store. One click away from preordering a new Apple product for the first time in years. But then I decided I would miss the hipsters in the Marina too much. So I went to bed. Yes, that means I’ll be in line again this coming Friday. Call me crazy, but at this point it’s just too entertaining. I am hoping there won’t be rain,…
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…
Making money in a crowded App Store: it’s dog eat dog and Spy vs Spy: And if you’re Apple? Well, Apple benefits from a crowded App Store marketplace where developers cut prices to the bone in an attempt to stand out from the crowd. Every single app uploaded to the App Store adds value to every iOS device in existence; every single app a customer buys is another reason for them not to migrate away from iOS in the future. Apple is certainly motivated to keep the App…
One Year Later, the iPad Is Still My Favorite Computer | Techland | TIME.com: “Back when I started, the notion that an iPad could largely replace a conventional computer was, um, a tad unusual. Some of the people who read my story, in fact, seemed to maintain that it was impossible, or at least that I was a moron for doing so. As one commenter put it: ‘This article is irresponsible. The iPad 2 is still an accessory to your REAL computer. To say that an iPad can replace your primary…
ignore the code: iPad mini: “While this is true, there’s something else to consider: not everybody has the same hands. The iPad works well for the average adult man, but children and women often have smaller hands and fingers. Decreasing the screen size from a diagonal of 9.7 inch to 7.85 would only decrease the width and height of each touch target by about 20% — this difference is way smaller than the size difference between the hands of an adult man and a child.” (via. ignorethecode.net)…
