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This seems head-slappingly obvious to me but I don’t see anyone talking about it. So let me explain my thinking, and at the end maybe you’ll slap your head too. tl/dr: 1. The ‘5s’ (but it won’t be called that), similar to the 5 but with bumped specs. 2. The Big iPhone, 2.8 inches wide instead of 2.3,… Read more »

I don’t have much time right now but I wanted to share a couple thoughts while they’re bothering me. Maybe I can exorcise them and move on. There has been some attention paid this past week to people being assholes on the internet. Nothing new there but surprising to some people because it was programmers ‘picking on’ another programmer. Others have… Read more »

There are many and deep problems with the patent system as it exists today. I won’t bother rehashing it, but suffice it to say when patents are often weapons held by companies that produce no actual products, and people who are trying to develop new products are actively avoiding looking at existing patents to avoid having… Read more »

This week as I pondered various discussions at the Defrag1 conference I found myself again frustrated that we do not yet have a bytecode interpreter as a standard browser feature. It has been apparent for a long time that JavaScript is not a foundation we can grow forever on. The current ubiquity and reliance on JS is an accident of history,… Read more »

One of the best known stories about Steve Jobs is how he saw graphical user interfaces and mouse input devices at PARC and it inspired him to push for the efforts at Apple that became the first Mac. It could be argued that the iPad and iPhone are also in a way inspired by PARC, (parctabs and… PARC Wall">Read more »

Safari will often show a cached copy of a page that is several days old, even though it showed a current version moments before. I see it most frequently on news index sites like the Techmeme river. To reproduce: 1. Go to site, may be in a new tab/page, view current version of page. 2. Follow a link and view linked… Read more »

I have been waiting since August 8th for enrollment in the Apple Developer Program. It is now the latter half of September. I am completely stunned. Timeline: August 8 — Initial application through online form. I also faxed in documentation of my LLC the same day as I knew this would be required. I received thank you emails in… Read more »

As predicted Android is dying fast. Surprisingly Google is helping it along. There has been a lot of stunned commentary since Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility, lots of people questioning their sanity. I think this was their only move, they either had to abandon any pretense of controlling Android, or build their own stuff. As… Read more »

It has been widely adopted by device manufacturers, happy to toss aside legacy firmware and licensing fees for something sleek and modern and with a Google subsidy. It is now reported at a 39% market share. It is specifically because it is widely used that it has rapidly become the commodity underlayment and is being fractured to… Read more »

Lion is here and it is very good. I come to the Mac from a strange place. I’m not a ‘switcher’ in the sense that I am not a consumer user who when it came time to upgrade an aging Windows PC decided to try out a Mac. In fact I was very reluctant. Fortunately I have impeccable timing. I can still… OSX Lion and how we got here">Read more »