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Steve Jobs Loves Us, He Loves Us Not
He loves us, he loves us not: The leading computer company plans to build a system that will sense when people are trying to video live events — and turn off their cameras. A patent application filed by Apple revealed … Continue reading
The world didn’t get its financial house in order, but it did buy a lot of iPads
Zillions still unemployed and the world awash in debt, but at least the economic bandaids allowed the world to buy 7.5 million iPads. One more round of stimulus and maybe we can hold things together long enough for the next … Continue reading
Apple: Our Signal Bars Were Bullshit Anyway
Apple is looking more and more like a crapweasal the longer the iPhone antenna issue drones on. Apple `stunned’ to find iPhones overstate signal strength; holding it wrong still a problem Apple Inc. said Friday that it was “stunned” to … Continue reading
iPhone and the Cult of Mac
Fake Steve Jobs – There Is No Spoon: The other strategy we use comes from Zen Buddhism. You ever study Zen koans? Most of them make no sense at all. You read them and you go away feeling confused and … Continue reading
How to take credit card payment with your smart phone
Square for iPhone, iPad, and Android and Intuit PaymentsToGo for many smart phones (and the Web-based version works on any smartphone with a Web browser). Type in the card number manually or use the optional dongle to swipe cards. With … Continue reading
Buy an iPhone 4, Get a Pee-stained Screen and Dropped Calls FREE!!!
“You think you’re so cool because you buy a five hundred dollar phone with a picture of a piece of fruit on it. Well guess what? They cost eight bucks to make and I pee on every one.” –Steve Mobs … Continue reading
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Jakob Nielsen Reviews iPad Usability
Alertbox: iPad Usability – First Findings From User Testing: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.
Thom Hogan: “the iPad is not quite ready for serious photographers”
When the iPad appeared I briefly thought it could be useful for photographers. You could review images at a size much larger than your camera’s LCD. You could do basic editing. Once in range of a WiFi connection you could … Continue reading
Steve Jobs: “No one needs more than 256 Megabytes of RAM!”
Granted, Steve Jobs didn’t say that in so many words. He said it with design specs. I knew the current-gen iPhone and iTouch only had 256 MB memory, but I didn’t realize the iPad was likewise hamstrung. Yeah, Apple’s really … Continue reading
Apple Under Scrutiny for Anti-trust Violations
And Bill Gates laughed and laughed: Apparently, Apple is now under antitrust scrutiny for its licensing agreements with iPhone app developers. Those developers–and competitors–are complaining that Apple has recently changed its licensing agreement to forbid using non-Apple software tools to … Continue reading
Fake Steve Jobs Explains What You Should Read and Think
Please stop thinking about Gizmodo, doors being broken down, etc. Failing that, you can always think about Gandhi, who loves his new iPad and is totally downloading apps like a madman. And by the way, Gandhi would totally break down your door if you stole something that belonged to him. He would f–k up your s–t. Seriously. Continue reading
Fake Steve Jobs: We are removing Flash support from OS X
We are removing Flash support from OS X: This is for all the same reasons that I cited in my essay, “Thoughts on Flash.” Those reasons apply to OS X as well as to iPhone. [...] Anyone who buys Jobs’ … Continue reading
iPad News – Steve Jobs is the Devil Edition
The Daily Caller – Watch out for those glowing iPad reviews: Jobs, though, doesn’t just stop at wooing. Apple reportedly told Newsweek not to hire the blogger over at Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons, because of his critical coverage of the … Continue reading
Apple iPad: Security vs. Freedom
Over at my company’s blog I lead a roundtable discussion of whether the closed nature of the iPad actually leads to better security. Apple’s iPad went on sale last weekend. As Cory Doctorow and others have noted, Steve Jobs has … Continue reading
Fake Steve Jobs Announces the iPad
An open letter to the people of the world: Dear human race, First of all, you’re welcome. [...] Hold your iPad. Gaze at it. Pray to it. Let it transform you. And do it soon, because before you know it … Continue reading
Apple insanely great device is an overpriced iPod Touch
Gizmodo – 8 Things That Suck About the iPad: No Flash No Flash is annoying but not a dealbreaker on the iPhone and iPod Touch. On something that’s supposed to be closer to a netbook or laptop? It will leave … Continue reading
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