Vesper Vesper wasn’t an app for everyone. A lot of people thought it was under-featured and overpriced from the get-go. Maybe it was too simple. Another word is elegant. Now it’s shutting down . Vespe
I always resisted joining a music-subscription service. My former Macworld colleague Chris Breen was always a fierce proponent of them , first Rhapsody and then Spotify . (Now that Chris works at Appl
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, a rose gold iP
Next post Previous post This is the computer I’m typing on. 1 This was the first good MacBook Air, replacing that weird thing with the flip-out door. I bought it in the fall of 2010, shortly after it
Nate Silver, “ Trump Is Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy ”: So it’s not surprising that Trump has undertaken a major shakeupof his campaign, hiring Bannon and promoting the pollsterKellyanne Conway.
Over at the twitter dot com website, there has been a briefly-trending topic #fav7films , discussing your favorite seven films. Part of the purpose of being on twitter is to one-up the competition, so
Fast Company : Let’s start talking about Maps. How are you developing Maps, and how broadly might it apply as Apple looks ahead? Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet software and services: The first thing to know about Maps is there’s no one developing maps in a significant way except us and Google. There’s…
When I met Apple Music marketing chief Bozoma Saint John at Apple for an interview, she had just come from a photo shoot and she looked, well, fabulous. While she was wearing high heels (which put her
I don’t normally post about politics (I’m not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics ). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald T
Matter Scientists Ponder an Evolutionary Mystery: The Female Orgasm Evolutionary biologists offered a new way of thinking about the female orgasm based on a reconstruction of its ancient history. An e
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Probably the most important fact when it comes to analyzing Unilever’s purchase of Dollar Shave Club is the $1 billion price: in the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG) it is shockingly low. After
Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations. She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even sli
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Is Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone? Nobody really knows, though rumors have swirled for quite a while now. A recent exchange
At a recent dinner, my wife and I realized we've known each other for ten years. This, naturally, led to our reminiscing of what we were doing ten years ago and discussion of what we might do ten year
Home iOS iOS 10 If you haven't been paying attention to Apple this week, there's just a teensy bit about the company's upcoming operating systems you might have missed. New versions of watchOS, tvOS,
Venue Moscone West isn’t big enough for 5,000 attendees to fit in a room, so a few thousand WWDC attendees always had to sit in an overflow room where they’d watch the keynote on video. That’s a major
Opinion Playing the Numbers in Digital Dating Credit... Tim Lahan BERKELEY, Calif. — HERE are some ways to use Tinder: Swipe right on everyone; swipe left on everyone; screenshot guys who pose with gu
“We’re doing something a little different this year. We’ve got a bunch of App Store/developer-related announcements for WWDC next week, but frankly, we’ve got a busy enough keynote that we decided we’
I’ve always loved the idea of someone else making a mixtape for me. When I was in middle school and until the first year of high school, we didn’t have the Internet at home. My parents were against bu
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. 7 min read · May 14, 2016 -- William S. Burroughs — Naked Lunch I started
Another fascinating moment on MSNBC last night. Rachel Maddow, talking about Bill Weld , the Libertarian candidate for vice-president, who likens Trump's deportation plan to Kristallnacht , at the sta
For the past three weeks, I've been using an iPhone SE. I'm an Android user. I like my widgets and my Google apps, and I always felt the iPhone was too fancy and breakable for me. This was my first ex
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In September 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, addressed a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. It was a sold-out spectacle worthy of a lush Bollywood produc
Published in Learning By Shipping · 21 min read · Apr 29, 2016 -- My tablet has stickers, with some room to spare. It also has several keyboards, waiting for a perfect one. Photo by author. When I rec
M orale is down. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture and dress shoes, men who chuckle and smooth their hair back wh
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According to this Bloomberg report that reads like an intentional leak from Apple: 1 Apple Inc. has constructed a secret team to explore changes to the App Store… Among the ideas being pursued, Apple
Earlier this month Apple launched a smaller version of the iPad Pro . At 9.7" it essentially takes the place of the iPad Air 2 as Apple's flagship standard sized tablet. While many observers expected
At the last Apple Event , a seemingly simple thing was announced: a True Tone display on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. This device also uses a new LCD panel and sports “a color standard big enough for Hollyw
This past week saw a wave of excitement around Tesla and their Model 3. I watched all of this with rapt attention as I saw what appears to be the start of the next chapter in personal transportation.
Published in Monday Note · 8 min read · Mar 28, 2016 -- Maturity doesn’t have to be boring. The 40-year old Apple doesn’t lack the challenges it needs, both external and internal, to stay interesting.
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. There was a time when miniaturization ruled. The smaller you could make technology, the more valuable it became. Smaller products were more ex
A pple CEO Tim Cook sat down with TIME’s Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman on March 10 to discuss his company’s rapidly escalating fight with the FBI over encryption. That is the subject of the magazine’s
S ome years ago , on a family visit to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, my two sons and I signed up for a guided, several-hour ramble downward into the cave. My husband, who is claustrophobic,
Shortcuts for Mac June 10 2019 One of the most interesting rumors before WWDC was that Shortcuts might be coming to the Mac, which of course raises all kinds of questions re the future of automation on macOS. WWDC came and went, and while Shortcuts got some huuge upgrades in iOS 13 (like a new…
The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. Last week I arrived in San Francisco to hear good news: Whitfield Diffie and Martin
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