A Steambox makes no sense.

by WyldKard on March 19, 2012

Two weeks ago, rumours were running wild that Valve would jump into the console fray. The rumours were quickly squashed by Gabe Newell, but it didn’t stop some from dreaming. Maxator summed up the hopes of many gamers on his blog. I think the stage is set for a new console player. If The Valve [...]

Splashtop Remote lets us run OS X on our iPad.

by WyldKard on August 22, 2011

Last November, when we talked about using the iPad almost exclusively since its debut, we touched on three things that we felt were still missing by the platform. The first was tethering to a computer for backups/updates, which sounds like it will be resolved come the release of iOS 5. The second, APIs, is an [...]

Small, evolutionary changes are better.

by WyldKard on June 14, 2011

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 [...]

John Gruber countered Jared Newman’s writeup defending Windows 8, and we won’t rehash the whole deal. But we will comment on Newman’s ridiculous statement about blogging on the iPad: While it’d be nice if Microsoft created touch-based versions of its productivity software — and don’t rule it out just yet — there’s only so much [...]

The Apple TV as a console.

by WyldKard on April 19, 2011

Over the past couple days, we’ve seen considerable speculation about Apple’s involvement in television manufacturing; some wish to believe that Apple will delve into the TV production business, while others are critical in this regard. Others still are taking this opportunity to point out that doubting Apple’s entry in a given market has a poor [...]