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 [...]
There are other things that I planned to write about but since two of the great loves of my life (advertising and technology) came together recently it seems as if I’m being called. I refer to Microsoft’s ‘Life Without Walls’ attempt to rebrand Windows and my reaction to it. (Seriously? That’s the name of your [...]
Why is it so hard for iTunes to give me an idea of how much disk space my proposed transfer is going to take on my iPod? Instead I’m left to guess how many megabytes that John Lennon album is supposed to take up and push forward simply by trial and error. Not really what [...]
The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Benjamin is a weekly(ish) podcast that typically revolves around Apple but that is, at least ostensibly, about whatever the two hosts want to talk about that week. Benjamin may be familiar from his site Hivelogic or his work on Cork’d, A List Apart, and with the Ruby [...]
So there’s an article by Tim Wu over at Slate about how the iPhone isn’t as revolutionary as Apple makes it out to be. John Gruber has done a pretty good job in the past few days deconstructing some of the anti-iPhone articles out there but he seems to have missed Wu’s so I thought [...]
As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]
As I’ve made clear in a few posts to the blog, I believe in DRM-free music. I believe in it so much I’m willing to support the Russian mob and spend $20 on a Damon Albarn side-project I don’t even really want. Yesterday, though, promised to be the end of those dalliances for good when [...]
Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]