The Minority Report

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This could suck ass. The A.V. Club has an interview that they’ve done with Justin Long of the Apple I’m a Mac vs PC commercials. He talked about his work on various projects but the one that we are most worried about are the continuation of the “Hi I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” [...]

I suppose this would work equally as well with a potato. It goes along with my comments earlier today that the iPad seems to not be getting the normal Apple product release reaction. Now this is funny. I found this posted over at TechCrunch and thought I would share this. iPad vs A Rock – [...]

Darren Beckett put together this cool graphic comparing various ereaders and their cost vs. the iPad. Kinda puts things in to perspective. It is my unscientific opinion that the iPad has been slammed in the media but I put my faith in Steve Jobs. The man is a genius, a billionaire and all around good [...]

This comes from Kontra over on his CounterNotions blog. I think it’s worth reading and I’ve left out the “Remembrance of Things Past” section and that is where the meat is. I have to say that I’ve been noticing in the “press” lately (read blogs) that there seems to be a little backlash against Apple [...]

Seems as if Dan Grigsby on Mobile Orchard is my source of iPhone news these days… (I have no idea why this chick came up on a search for iPhone images but I’m going with it…) Anyway, seems like a throw away line here as Dan is talking about the Undo and Redo API for [...]

Guest author Brian Stormon from Stormy Productions is guest blogging on Mobile Orchard with this information on how to keep your iPhone app from being rejected from the Apple AppStore. It’s a pretty insightful read and while I hit the titles, I suggest you visit and read up. I’ve been developing apps for the iPhone [...]

Dan Grigsby over at the Mobile Orchard asks this question today: when do you start building apps (for your iPhone) that rely on capabilities of the new iPhone 3.0 OS? When do you start building apps that rely on capabilities in 3.0? … At first blush, it looks like an easy question to answer: build [...]

I don’t know what order to post the clips but I think I’ve decided to paste them in the order that I found them. First we have Dan Grigsby on the Mobile Orchard: Wayne Pan benchmarked JavaScript on the iPhone 3.0 beta as compared to the 2.2 release and found performance improvements of 3-10x for [...]

I’m going to bold the important part blow me. As I said the other day, it’s pretty obvious that Bill Gates is gone from Microsoft. It is also becoming increasingly obvious that either Steve Ballmer has been biting his tongue for the past 30 years or he’s an idiot. Microsoft’s business practices have fundamentally diminished [...]

Just goes to prove that the old adage is true… While the economy continues to tank, and desktop PC purchases are falling, a new survey from ChangeWave Research says Apple customers are the happiest buyers. Looking at people who bought a computer in the last 90 days, 81% said they were very satisfied with their [...]

Updated: I should have used the title “MIT Doesn’t Drop the Soap”. Oh well…*sigh* First the electricity producing shock absorbers, next the smart blocks and now a bar of soap. Those fuckers over at MIT are damned clever huh? Give a bunch of engineers some accelerometers (thank you Apple and Nintendo) and all of the [...]

Aside from Nokia and every other freaking cell phone company out there smelling the cash, I’m going to concentrate on Micrsoft’s following again. First the GUI…now this…Apple has long been described as Microsoft’s R&D department. I think it’s hysterical. Did you watch Family Guy last night (it’s at the bottom) and catch the total slam [...]