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Mar 8

iPhone Apps on the iPad #

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Brian X. Chen at Wired, on the default iPhone apps that aren’t present on the iPad: But if you recall, the iPhone ships with some...

Mar 3

This Apple-HTC Patent Thing #

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There are two aspects surrounding Apple’s patent litigation against HTC that demand further consideration.

Mar 1

Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7 #

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They Stopped Digging Good for Microsoft for starting over with a truly new UI and new developer APIs.

Feb 25

Tits and Apps #

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So with this whole thing where Apple has removed and banned like 5,000 “sexy apps” from the App Store, I think I’ve figured out the...

Feb 9

Macworld Expo Prelude #

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Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco. Is it going to fly without Apple?

Jan 30

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? #

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Robert Scoble has a good analogy: Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene.

Jan 28

Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad #

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Automatic Transmission Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change...

Jan 27

The iPad Big Picture #

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There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole.

Jan 25

Apple, Adobe, and Flash #

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In my “Tablet Musings” piece two weeks ago, I speculated that Apple’s imminent tablet probably won’t support Flash, for all the same reasons the iPhone...

Dec 31

The Tablet #

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Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often...

Dec 21

Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in the Browsers Which Support It #

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I seldom post video to DF, but when I do, I refuse to embed Flash,1 I want the markup to be sane and standard, I...

Dec 15

PastryKit #

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One of the recent themes here has been the topic of iPhone OS web apps — apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch that are...

Nov 27

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs #

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A common problem programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as...

Nov 18

The OS Opportunity #

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A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled “Herd Mentality”, I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes:...

Nov 13

The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation #

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Regarding today’s aforelinked tale from Rogue Amoeba regarding the four-month-long process to get a minor bug-fix update to Airfoil Speakers Touch published on the App...

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