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How can we know whether we can effect change from the outside? 13 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
Marco Arment thinks we can have some influence, however measured, over Apple through our writing (or podcasts or YouTube channels or other media, as the case may be); and I do think so too, but I have...
Mac OS X is the new Classic 10 Jun 2013 | 06:08 am
Doing predictions about Apple is risky business. Heck, predicting anything in the tech industry is risky business, and people who did would generally like you to forget they did so at some point: as w...
Parody week 10 Apr 2013 | 03:09 am
Well, I hoped you enjoyed parody week last week on this blog. After the parody of the Old New Thing I posted Monday as an April’s fool, I admit I got a little carried away and posted a parody of Hyper...
Good riddance, Google. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. 4 Apr 2013 | 05:33 am
See here. Basically, the rockets scientists at Google have decided, after having used our WebKit for years in Chrome, that they, uh, suddenly did not need us any more and forked WebKit like the true l...
Did Apple just cargo cult the iPhone platform? 3 Apr 2013 | 02:27 am
In The iPhone Software Revolution, I proclaimed that the iPhone was the product Apple was born to make: But a cell phone? It’s a closed ecosystem, by definition, running on a proprietary network. By a...
Annoyance-Driven Blogging 2 Apr 2013 | 11:14 am
I’ve been reading Hypercritical, John Siracusa’s new blog outside of Ars Technica, and it has been good to read more of John, rather than the glacial pace his blog there had been updating lately. But ...
How does ETC work? A sad story of application compatibility 1 Apr 2013 | 01:04 pm
Commenter Contoso asked: “What’s the deal with ETC? Why is it so complicated?“ First, I will note that ETC (which stands for Coordinated Eternal Time) is in fact an international standard, having been...
Apple has a low-cost iPhone, but they should have a different one 29 Mar 2013 | 02:36 am
From time to time rumors surface about Apple being poised to introduce some sort of cheap iPhone to fill a hole in their lineup, or we have so-called experts pontificate on why Apple needs to introduc...
PSA: Subscribe to your own RSS feed 16 Mar 2013 | 09:42 pm
I like RSS. A lot. It allows me to efficiently follow the activity of a lot of blogs that do not necessarily update predictably (I mean, I’m guilty as charged here). So when things break down, in part...
Proposal for a standard plain text format for iOS documents 6 Mar 2013 | 12:20 am
Since the last times we visited the matter of working with documents on iOS, I have read with great interest more write-ups of people describing how they work on the iPad, because of course it is alwa...
