Dear long tail of Apps, Fuck you … … begins Apple’s announcement of the new and redesigned App Store in iOS 6. We felt that too many of you were getting downloads, making livings and generally participating in the ecosystem and so we’ve devised a way to counter this. I am of-course referring to the modifications to [...]
16
Mar
Radio Shack will not sell the new iPad without accessories
Feel like donating $30+ to the coffers of a company that seems not to understand that questions that begin “wouldn’t it be great if” don’t translate well to storepolicy? This is the question that the man at the Radio Shack was all but asking me while he was explaining their iPad sales policy. “No iPad [...]
13
Mar
Yahoo – If this was the Cold War – You just blew up the world!
Yahoo has chosen to sue Facebook for the infringement of a ridiculous, broad array of patents which are either unused by Yahoo, prior art clearly exists or frankly should never have been granted in the first place. This is the first such example of one web company suing another over their ‘patent bank’ that I can [...]
07
Mar
The New iPad – Really?!
Really? Here I sit, Credit Card in hand, ready, waiting to give Apple my money for a shiny new iPad 3 (or HD) with a retina display and something else fun delivered as a trademark ‘one more thing’. What do we get… ‘the next iPad’ (one of the most stupid names in branding history) – [...]
01
Sep
iPhone – Directions to an event’s location – Please
Hi Apple, I love my iPhone. It took a while to ween me away from wanting to actually be able to store and organise my files, control directories, copy files on and off my 16GB £400 memory card, install applications that haven’t been through your ridiculous process, copy and paste (until very recently) data etc.. [...]
09
Sep
The calm after the storm – Post ‘Jobs-note’
So, Steve’s taken the stage and done his bit. Now it’s up to us to spend the next 3-5 days marveling at the design brilliance of Apple and how they’ve changed our lives before settling back down in to the (not unimpressive) reality that they’ve just re-engineered an existing solution to be intuitive and look [...]
09
Apr
Wonderful Success Message
Error messages have gotten a lot of flack over the years for unintuitive wording or programatic creation (causing odd succesions of phrases to the effect of ‘there was an error’) to which all you can reply is ‘okay’ implying that somehow it is acceptable for the computer to erase all your data. Today, however, a [...]
