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Siri, for her many charms, is not actually a “her”, and not actually a “human”. She doesn’t have opinions, and her stated position on any topic under the sun can and must be reduced to the simple expression of a one or a zero. PCMag is running a piece on the fact that Siri [...]
Continue Reading →Much has been written and said following the revelation that Apple’s devices maintain a database (to use the term loosely) with entries, that, properly parsed, can be used to demonstrate more or less where the iPhone has been geographically over the course of it’s little iLife.
So: Is this a problem, and if so, how [...]
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Apple has approved for sale my first children’s book app, a joint venture with acclaimed illustrator and children’s book author Craig Frazier, titled Stanley Mows the Lawn. Without spoiling the story, Frazier’s well-loved Stanley character appears in this title to perform the rather unpleasant chore of mowing his overgrown lawn, [...]
Continue Reading →Presented for your consideration today, a brief examination of what makes an app an app, and distinctly not a desktop application, nor a mobile website for that matter (and this is by far a more compelling examination).
Continue Reading →When it comes to software “design”, the ability to be precise is critical. As with any human creative pursuit, the software designer is entitled to assurances that their labors will be reflected to those who consume them precisely as the creator intended.
The general public doesn’t regard software as something to be appreciated in the [...]
Continue Reading →The internet is abuzz this week with the U.S. Copyright Office’s ruling that consumers in the United States have the legal right to over-ride software that ships on their mobile devices, this to the objection of many manufacturers including Apple. While much has been said about the ruling, I’ve read very little in the way [...]
Continue Reading →Greetings from Chicago. After two days and fifteen hundred miles, I’ve confirmed a few long-held assumptions about the quality of food served alongside American highways, but, to date, no revelations about the broader state of technology in America.
Revelations aside, the role of technology in a life-on-the-road has been interesting, and sometimes frustrating, to observe. [...]
Continue Reading →Given my long-standing and more-than-just-professional-though-still-fairly-tangential ties to the publishing industry, I’ve read with interest a number of articles that attempt to deconstruct the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the post-Kindle paper book market.
Of note is that very few of these articles strive for a measure of journalistic objectivity, though I suppose in [...]
Continue Reading →Perhaps you are already familiar with my thoughts on the state of closed vs. open platforms. Despite thinking that there’s not necessarily anything wrong with the persistence of closed platforms (iPhone or otherwise) in 2010, I do have concerns about Apple’s position as gatekeeper in what has become a [...]
Continue Reading →Let’s review concepts: A closed platform, for the purposes of our conversation, is one in which a product developer limits the ability of a user/owner of that product to do literally anything and everything the owner might wish to. If an iPhone was a house, and you bought that house, there are certain rooms that [...]
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