When running a business there’s always tension between what’s best for your business versus what’s best for your customer. Dan Counsell’s post on providing access to Mac Apps outside the App Store is a good example of that tension (emphasis mine): Lets take a look at three of the reasons why not limiting the availability of your software to just the Mac App Store is a...
If the rumours turn out to be true and Apple does release an iPhone 6 Mini I’ll likely buy it. I got my iPhone 6 at the start of November and switched to it from my iPhone 5s. But two weeks later I switched back to my 5s. Just this week I’m having another go at trying the 6, but I’m probably going back to the 5s again next week. The main reason is the form factor. Everything...
More silly lawyer-wealth-building coming up, in a new class action against Apple: Apple has touted iOS 8 as the “biggest iOS 8 release ever,†a tagline plaintiffs lawyers tried to spin to their advantage in the complaint, arguing that few users understood just how much space the software would take up. They claim Apple exploits the space constraints by peddling iCloud subscriptions when users...
When it comes to understanding innovation, it’s easy to fixate on the idea, and neglect the execution. It’s why for example when Apple announced that their new iPhone 6 devices had NFC chips to facilitate their Apple Pay offering they were criticised for not being innovative, and instead just copying something many Android devices have had for years. “That’s not innovation...
This is a post purely for me to come back and review in the future for interest. I thought I’d start recording my phone app choices because it would be interesting to see how they change over time. Here’s my current two screens of app: Â The Home screen is the stuff I use the most, and the second screen is stuff that I don’t use as much or are playing with (eg I’ve only...
Good gracious! I was shocked. Shocked I tell you. Such profanity. As almost every tech blog on earth has reported, Tim cook lost his cool a little at a recent shareholder meeting. Asked by Justin Danhof (following Justin’s policy proposal suggestion being rejected by shareholders) about whether ‘he would commit right then and there to doing only those things that were...