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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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