Louis CK has a joke where he lambasts anyone who complains about the speed of their mobile phone by saying, “Give it a second! It’s going to space. Could you give it a second?” Yesterday, during Apple’s keynote on the redesign of iOS 7, I kept thinking about CK’s joke while trawling through the…

Mad. Furious. Instantaneous rage. I’m not proud to admit it, but there is a short list of seemingly inconsequential events that give me blind, piercing rage. It’s an embarrassing list that I cannot fully share, but here’s a few: When a single key on my keyboard is slowly failing. When you chew with…

Last year, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard . It makes for interesting reading (despite the awful title). Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of the spectrum, there’s the stitched leather and wood of iOS; at the other, the stark, ascetic…

Triptych Image: Left Panel: Kelly Mark, "Nothing Is So Important That It Needs To Be Made In Six Foot Neon"; Middle Panel: "La Fonda Dancers"; Right Panel: HGs, "Freemon Street" “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon sign says — but the fiery…

"History teaches us nothing except that something will happen' - Hugh Trevor-Roper In the 1990s, the PC market was mostly a corporate market (roughly 75% of volume). Corporate buyers wanted a commodit

A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect.

Last week, Google announced they are shutting down Reader. Many people were upset by the move, especially because so many of us depend on Reader for reading RSS feeds even if we don’t directly use it.

I usually agree with Om Malik, but not this time, on why he won’t use Google Keep , Google’s new Evernote clone: It might actually be good, or even better than Evernote. But I still won’t use Keep. Yo

Jean-Louis Gassée : Yes, Apple is held to a (well earned) different standard. Once achallenger with an uncertain future, Apple has become The Man.Years ago, it could productively poke fun at Microsoft