So in the past two or three weeks I’ve had about two or three discussions with people regarding Apple’s upcoming iPad. Usually the discussions go like this: Me: I want an iPad. Them: Are you insane? Me: No, I’m serious. I keep thinking of situations in which I’d love to use something like that. Them: [...]
So John Gruber named Henry Blodget his Jackass of the Week because of a piece Blodget wrote at Silicon Alley Insider suggesting that Google will do to Apple in the ’10s what Microsoft did to Apple in the ’80s. That is, completely marginalise the company and develop and control the de facto operating system. Gruber’s [...]
Work recently provided me with a Blackberry Bold, and while some things about it are really cool, some things remind you how shitty phones are. People complain about the fascist-like App Store Apple runs for the iPhone but sometimes the level of frustration you experience with other phones makes you beg to be put into [...]
In response to the snarky line I had regarding Windows Vista in my post yesterday, Andrew made the point that Apple can afford to sell their new operating system at such a low price because they’re a hardware company and selling software cheaply encourages hardware adoption. (The implication being that Microsoft is a software company [...]
Apple releases their new operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, on Friday, and the most interesting thing to me is the price. For users running the current Leopard version of OS X the price is only USD$29 (AUD$39). This is impulse purchase territory as far as I’m concerned and I’m eager to see what the uptake [...]