Gary Arndt talks about using the iPad while traveling, and his review is perfectly reasonable until he mentions content creation. [The iPad] is fine for sending out tweets, replying to email or updating Facebook. I have never written a blog post nor have I edited a photo taken on my SLR with the iPad. I [...]
In a response to Paul Thorrott on Apple not making giant leaps between major OS revisions, John Gruber points out the difference is clearer when you look at OS X from its first incarnation to today: With Mac OS X in particular, to my recollection, Thurrott has had this same take for every single major [...]
The iPhone case frenzy has officially become retarded, thanks to entries like Snow Peak’s new titanium cover. Not only does it come in at $120, but it degrades cellular reception. But it’s the desire to encase every gadget in plastic or metal that has us really confused, and it’s a bandwagon we found ourselves on [...]
The iPhone Blog posted a poll today asking how people tend to use the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, and surprisingly, after 3k votes, portrait-based use is currently in the lead. We guess that this is based primarily on the amount of screen real-estate left after the virtual keyboard is displayed, as the landscape keyboard hides so [...]
Ben Brooks wrote a solid review of various weather apps for the iPhone, which is quite handy considering how populated this app category is. Marco Arment’s comment on the weather app spectrum is perfect: The problem here is similar to any other general app category with a lot of potential for customer dissatisfaction, like to-do [...]