Apple Accessory Design: It’s not just Beauty
So there’s been much wailing and gnashing of teeth lately about the design of some of Apple’s accessories. This includes the new Magic Mouse 2 with the charging port on the bottom, the iPad Pro with...
View ArticleIs OS X becoming ‘Legacy’?
You might have missed the fact that Apple’s iPad Pro is about 50% faster than the new Retina MacBook. That’s right, Apple’s ARM chip running iOS is faster–for the same price point–as an Intel chip...
View ArticleApple has hugely ambitious plans for open-sourced Swift, and hints on what’s...
Craig Federighi revealed many interesting tidbits when you read the transcript–and read between the lines–of his talk with John Gruber of Daring Fireball on The Talk Show podcast. First let me tie this...
View Article10 Clues to the Future of Universal Apps and the Apple App Store
The other day I told you about how OS X may become a legacy operating system. That won’t happen overnight; it’ll take a few years. Today I’d like to discuss what might happen in the meantime. I’ll take...
View ArticleWill $399 iPad Air 3 have an A9 chip, & Apple’s A9X chip be reserved for iPad...
Apple recently released iOS 9.3, surprising everyone with its robust education features. Chromebooks have overtaken education, and Apple needs to be competitive. It seems curious to me, though, that...
View ArticleWas Apple’s iPhone SE Event Yesterday a Flop? No.
Now there are some stories running that yesterday’s Apple event was a big, fat flop. Apple announced an iPhone SE and 9.7″ iPad Pro, to no one’s surprise. Well, no one’s surprise because of the leaks....
View ArticleApple Has Too Many Devices: Silly Meme #236
Yesterday’s meme-of-the-day seemed to be that Apple has too many devices and isn’t focused enough. UX leader (but also Google employee) Luke Wroblewski wrote: “When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 the...
View ArticleThe Flip-Flop Between iPad Pro and Original iPhone
While responding to a tweet yesterday by Neil Cybart (@NeilCybart), I suddenly had an epiphany about the strange difference between the original iPhone and the iPad Pro. Neil’s tweet was about an...
View ArticleRumored MacBook Pro OLED touch bar to mimic iPad Pro?
Last week brought the first—and surprising—rumor from AppleInsider of an OLED touch bar above a new MacBook Pro (MBP) keyboard. At the time, I tweeted an image I mocked up of what that touch bar may...
View ArticleThe iPad Pro is hobbled by software, and why iOS 10 could knock it out of the...
The almost-universal sentiment when the iPad Pro came out was: Hardware Good, Software Bad. I wrote about this again recently, saying that the debut of iPad Pro was the opposite of the original...
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