Category Apple

Historical Day: the market acknowledges that Apple is leading the world in technology!

We knew it was for before year’s end but it came much before: Apple (AAPL) has surpassed Microsoft (MSFT) on the Nasdaq in market value and is now the most valued technology company in the world.
We knew of course that Apple was the word leader but now it’s evident for everybody.
Some will say that now [...]

About front facing cameras in iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, iMacs…

Cy Starkman is right on the spot in a comment of RoughlyDrafted Magazine:
“Even MacBooks et al have the camera placed wrong. You either look at the camera or the person, ultimately everyone looks at the person and appears to be looking down.
It’s useless. Camera phones included. If anything else this is why it hasn’t [...]

We don’t need no f#####’ flash!

Frame 16976 of the latest Apple podcast

There’s a solution for Those Blue Boxes!

John Gruber asks in his latest contribution “Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?”
The answer is easy: somebody just needs to write a little app for the iPad and the iPhone just like the wonderful ClickToFlash.

This time when you click, there’s no way to make Flash happen of course, but it just sends a [...]

The Tablet is for the rest of them

It’s not for the rest of us.
But of course we will be more than happy to use it as well.
That means it’s the computer for everybody, the computer that everybody will want!

When Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh in 1984, it was marketed as the computer for “the rest of us”.
Thats was supposed to be the [...]

It’s the system, stupid!

I would like to make some clarifications, beyond the marketing gimmicks and the bad habits.

There are a lot of things said about the system that the “Tablet” is supposed to run.
The last one being that it’s running a variant of the iPhone OS. The people thinking that way are not thinking “different”, they are thinking [...]

26 years ago, The first step…

January 24, 1984 – The first step: Introduction of the Macintosh
26 years ago, on that day, Steve Jobs introduced to the world the first computer with a graphical interface for a price acceptable at the time. It was very exciting then but with the distance it appears as a preview, a prototype of what would [...]