Dixons Apparently Sucks
Ben Rooney, writing for the WSJ:Presumably Mr. Browett interviews really, really well, and perhaps Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to visit a PC World or Currys (Dixon’s face of retail in the U.K.), but the two retail experiences are poles apart.A...
Macworld 2012
Astute summary of last week’s show by Shawn Blanc.Similar take from Chris Foresman at Ars Technica, who summed the changes thus:As a tech journalist, Macworld has gradually become less
interesting. As a user of Apple’s products and ...
70 Percent of All Smartphones Sold by AT&T and Verizon Last Quarter Were iPhones
Android’s market share victory is imminent. ★
This Is Sad All Right
Violet Blue, writing about last week’s Macworld/iWorld Expo:I was, in fact, looking at The Saddest Booth Babe In The
World. […]She sat on a stool in between two large monitors across the aisle
from us. The pretty brunette was in one of ...
AT&T and Samsung Finally Upgrade the Infuse 4G to Android 4.0
Wait, did I say 4.0? I meant Android 2.3. ★
iPhone 4S Camera Made by Sony
That’s one way for camera companies to thrive in the face of declining point-and-shoot sales: to become component suppliers for smartphones and other devices. ★
No Longer Loving Google
Nelson Minar:I imagine half of my readers are smugly thinking “See, I told you
Google was evil all along”. I don’t think that’s right. In
particular I refuse to give in to a cynical view of Google’s
“Don’...
In Praise of Apple’s .ibook Format
Joseph Pearson, of the e-book startup Bookish:So we were surprised and delighted by some aspects of the .ibook
file that iBooks Author spits out. Their extensions to EPUB are
done precisely the right way. They’re not done with dollops of
embedd...
Making Mistakes
To top off those panel appearances, while in San Francisco I stopped by the palatial Mule Design studio to make an appearance on Let’s Make Mistakes, hosted by my friend and American McCarver co-contributor Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum. We tal...
Less Than Perfect Apps
My second appearance was on this panel moderated by Lex Friedman, featuring Glenn Fleishman, David Wiskus, Paul Kafasis, Guy English, and yours truly, talking about the flaws that bother us in apps that we love. ★
