My relationship with the iPad over the past year has been something along the lines of, “No, Eric, I don’t need one!” only to end up with a first-generation iPad the day after iPad 2 was released and then a third-generation iPad a few weeks after it was released…
With WWDC a little over a month away, many people are focusing on iOS 6. I agree that it is an important update, but I really don’t want to see any new features, but rather Apple focus on polishing certain things and making it feel more finished…
A few years back, Apple ran a series of ads featuring Peter Coyote narrating things that describe the iPad, backed by “Gold Lion” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. While Matt and I mocked the ad on a regular basis, it was quite good, and even foreshadowed where we are today…
I woke up this morning and realized that I was sick of over-the-top design, pointless wasted kilobytes, slow page loads, and everything else we can think of in regards to the Web today. Worse, I was contributing to it…
As we are just a day before the launch of Apple’s third iPad, it’s hard to imagine Apple not being successful. About 16 years ago, Apple was almost out of business, and it seems there’s a growing trend of tech writers who like to bring up this point as though history is going to repeat itself, especially immediately after the passing of Steve Jobs. As someone who was pro-Apple in a time when everyone was leaving for Windows, I have a slightly different view on Apple’s success, and the turns the Mac journalism community has taken…