As we are heading toward WWDC in June, many folks have ideas about what they expect or what they’d like to see. Something I’d like to see Apple do is remove their native apps (Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and the like) from macOS. Historically,…
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Nilay Patel on Net Neutrality
Nilay Patel at the Verge brings us up to date on the Net Neutrality issue. I’ve tried to understand how removing Net Neutrality helps consumers and I honestly just can’t see it. Net Neutrality has served us well and allowed many great ideas grow…
Continue reading →Thinking About Touch Screen Macs
I’ve been thinking more lately about touch screen Macs. There’s lots of talk in the community about how Microsoft has added touch screen to Windows and it’s now time for Apple to follow suit. Just a few days ago, I was sent a link…
Continue reading →FBI vs. Apple: Where is this Going?
Several times over the course of my legal career, I’ve either had cause to delay a hearing on motion or had opposing counsel do the same. While nothing I have ever worked on has the sex appeal of the FBI vs. Apple, I can…
Continue reading →iPhone Divergence
There are a lot of rumblings lately about divergence of features in the iPhone 7. Some reports say Apple is serious about a smaller phone that will lose some of the features found in the current iPhone 6s line. Other reports, like this one,…
Continue reading →Wibbly-Wobbly Apple
There has been a lot of news lately about Apple reversing course with various apps using extensions and widgets in iOS 8. At WWDC a few months ago Apple (or more precisely the engineering branch of Apple) announced a lot of new toys they’d…
Continue reading →Multiple Variables
One of the great things about last year’s iPad release was the device parity Apple brought to both devices. They both had retina screens. They both and the same camera. They both had the same processor. They both had the same memory. All of…
Continue reading →Broadwell and ARM Macs
I wrote last month about Broadwell’s delays and the expected impact on the release of new Macs. It appears that is coming true. The recently updated MacBook Pros just received slightly bumped Haswell chips and, as Macworld reports, the speed improvements are small. Moreover, I’m more convinced than ever that the…
Continue reading →Macworld Article on Photos Challenges
This morning Macworld published a piece I wrote about why I think we need to move to cloud-based photo management and and the two biggest hurdles Photos will need to overcome to succeed. ∞
Continue reading →In Defense of Tim
Dan Frommer has a nice piece up about Tim Cook. “In many ways, Cook is running Apple better than Jobs ever did.” I think anyone following Steve Jobs has the deck stacked against him. Nevertheless, looking at all the news from WWDC, I also…
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