When Apple took on touch, it created a new OS (though, yes, based on OS X) with entirely new UI conventions. It threw out everything end users knew about getting around in software and started building anew with the finger … Read more →
52 Tiger: How to do cool, automated text-y stuff with Drafts and Launch Center Pro
Between some unsung features in a growing number of apps like Drafts and Launch Center Pro, and great iOS community work, you can get some serious multi-app workflow stuff done on an iPhone.
“In theory, the rules were intended to usher in a new era of openness in cellular by requiring that any compatible device or application be permitted to connect to it unless such use “would not be compliant with published technical … Read more →
Never fear, though. Analysts will still find a way to be disappointed. Also: see MacStories’ graph of all iPhone opening weekend launch pre-orders and sales.
Last week a couple friends of ours invited us out to an Eric Sardinas show at the House of Blues in Chicago. I realized it was the perfect opportunity to give Passbook a real chance. I installed the Live Nation … Read more →
Many of us have heard this before, but it bears repeating because many still have not: great design is about making choices. Put another way: to the chagrin of Steve Ballmer and his periodic and preposterous assertion that design can … Read more →
iPhone: Five years in our pockets – Macworld Hard to believe it’s already been five years. I still remember how compelling and contagious it was to be in the room and watch Steve Jobs hype the crowd for the original … Read more →
Three years ago, while beta testing his abilities as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook famously told journalists on an earnings call that Apple doesn’t build netbooks because it can’t find a way to make a great notebook for $300. It became … Read more →
Something struck me about the two new iPhone 4S and Siri ads Apple released last night, especially Joke, but I didn’t get it until now. Both ads star John Malcovich lounging in his subtly magnificent sitting room, but Joke features him … Read more →
iOS has come quite a ways since its humble beginning in 2007, when it had very few background tasks, no folders, no Air-anything, no games, no Notification Center (or notifications), and of course, no (sanctioned) way to add new native … Read more →
