I’ve tried a ton of different cooking apps on my iPhone over the years. Now with the iPad, I’ve come to the conclusion that following a recipe on the iPhone is completely useless. You really do need the larger screen and perhaps a dock to allow you to prop up your iPad whilst in the [...]
Finding Quality Apps in The App Store Still Sucks
This is another piece on a continuing thought about app discovery: Lately I've been perusing the App Store spending on average 30 minutes in search of interesting, creative, beautiful, and well designed apps. Yes, all those things are requirements that I consider in order for something to be truly great. Playing with some recent apps [...]
OSX 10.7 Lion And Beyond: How We Should Have Sandboxed Applications Like iOS
Lately I’ve been thinking about how Apple has a real opportunity to bring additional benefits of iOS to OS X as far as app management is concerned. We now have a pretty clear picture on the benefits the Mac App store will bring in 10.7 as far as brining some of the same great usability [...]
Goodbye to Optical Drives in Future MacBooks And MacBook Pros
With the release of the new MacBook Air, Apple is not only continuing it’s tradition of not including an optical drive but they have taken steps and given us hints that future Macbooks may not contain optical drives. This time around instead of shipping physical media so that you can reinstall your OS or applications [...]
OSX 10.7 Should Be Something More Ambitious
So apparently Apple is hosting an event on Oct 20th called "Back to the Mac," which is interesting and seems a bit out of left field right now. Back in July I wrote about the next logical step for OSX and what we can expect over the next few years. My closing comments were: WWDC [...]