I've become used to thinking of Apple's product releases as falling into two categories: "outreach" or "consolidation". Outreach releases are new products, or products introducing features that users will be unfamiliar with or that are novel enough to be headliners in adverts. Consolidation releases do essentially the same as the previous release, but faster or… Continue reading The Third Pad
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Hard edges, small keys
Joanna Stern reviews the MacBook Air as a Windows laptop. I enjoyed this—I've considered in the past whether the MacBook Air would be a suitable laptop for me even though most of the time I don't run OS/X. (Conclusion: probably not any more, though it might have seemed that way once.) She does highlight the… Continue reading Hard edges, small keys
Operating system updates
Google have released a version of their Chrome web browser for Android, and it seems to be rather good—but it only runs on the very latest version of Android, version 4. Which is a bit of an annoyance, because hardly anybody has that version. Glancing at the 12 most popular Android phones on the Expansys… Continue reading Operating system updates
We Profit For You
Gosh, all this MONEY! It's so EXCITING! Aren't we all doing so WELL! When does this delight that finally our superior methods are winning start to wear off? When does it become a bit of a worry that no other company seems capable of doing this? That we're probably entering two decades of another closed… Continue reading We Profit For You
The Apple textbook
Apple have announced a free application for making textbooks, along with a push to provide commercial textbooks from existing publishers through their iBooks delivery medium. It looks as if commercial books produced in this way will remain entirely restricted to reading on Apple hardware. (There's more flexibility for free books.) Apple have had an increasing… Continue reading The Apple textbook
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