The most important part about the iPad are its limitations.
But they’re important not because it defines what the device “can’t do”; in the fullness of time the App Store will likely bring us all sorts of new and interesting workarounds to the limitations.
Rather, the limitations are important because it delineates the boundaries of Apple’s concept [...]
Also tagged Computing, iPadGruber point to an article that tracks down pundits who thought the iPhone would fail, and asks them what they think now.
One guy was surprised by the success. Translation: everyone else wrote that the iPhone wasn’t worth it, but fully expected it to succeed. This says something about their Jeremiah-like journalism or their complete cynicism [...]
Also tagged The InternetJeff Atwood thinks that iTunes is Anti-Web:
Is it so unreasonable to expect links in your browser to resolve to, oh, I don’t know, web pages containing information about the thing you just clicked on? Is there anything more anti-web than demanding users install custom software to display information that could have just as easily been [...]
Also tagged Technology, The InternetApple put out a press release last week saying that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart, for it’s part, is making rublings:
Wal-Mart stirs CD pricing pot with multi-tiered plan – Yahoo! News:
Wal-Mart… has proposed a five-tiered pricing scheme that would allow the discounter to sell [...]
Also tagged TechnologyAnd this is what actually happened. Yeah, a little bit with the too-optimistic for me.
Things I got wrong:
I called the Mac Pro based on John Siracusa’s (who made the game, and the rules) assertion that it’d count “if and only if the new Mac Pros are mentioned in the keynote.” I figured they would be, [...]
Also taggedSo there’s this “cleaning tool” for the Mac that’s actually a scam and/or trojan horse. It always reports that you have something awry on your system, and offers to fix it if you cough up some dough.
This kind of stuff has been all the rage in the Windows world for years, now, but I can’t [...]
Also tagged The InternetHere are my predictions for MacWorld. Looking at the whole thing, it seems I’m being overly optimistic. But I can’t find any one square that I don’t think is going to happen–except maybe the iPhone, but I really want that one to be announced, so I can order one.
I should also add that this house [...]
Also taggedSeth’s Blog: Apple’s next problem:
When your entire culture is organized about being the other, the outsider, the insurgent, the one that’s better than the masses… what do you do when you are the masses?
Apple doesn’t have that problem quite yet; the office is still solidly in the Windows camp, and shows little sign of moving.
Also taggedThe way it was supposed to be:
Instead I’m going to show everyone the way it was “supposed” to be. This is not a hack, this Dock was taken from one of the Leopard beta installations that was seeded to developers and beta testers before the official release.
(Via Digg.)
It’s nifty, but I can see why it’s disabled: [...]
Also taggedI have a *lot* of keywords; I keep one for every person in any of my photos. When I use the search feature to search for keywords, the dark black window that appears to let me choose a keyword stretches up above the screen, making the first few dozen keywords impossible to search for, since [...]
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