Month: November 2011
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Apple Speculation Hype Cycle: iPhone 4S edition
When similar reports have surfaced in the past, pundits often speculated that Apple initially over-orders to ensure appropriate volume is available, then it cuts back on those orders to adjust for realistic sales estimates. It is unclear if this is the case with the iPhone 4S, presuming DigiTimes’ report is accurate. If you read the…
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Neven Mrgan on Apple TV with Siri
But the idea that Siri would be the main interface of Apple TV is as silly as making Siri the main UI for the iPad. Siri is good at letting the user submit hard-to-categorize, multi-part, uncertain inputs in the most expressive and effortless way we humans have: spoken language. I think TV mainly revolves around a…
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DadCast Episode 42 • May The 4S Be With You
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This weeks the Dads are joined by Stephen Hacket of 52pixels.net and the Ungeniused podcast on the newly launched 70Decibels network. As usual the discussion revolved around Apple and more specifically the recently launched iPhone 4S. But it’s not all Apple, Eric actually manages to get…
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Building a semi-powerhouse gaming PC station
The conundrum was in how to sell this idea to the better half.
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Consumerisation and the LiteralNet
This one is just for fun, but it strike a cord in most IT departments. The simple truth is that if you want to bring your own “toys” to work, you have better know how it works and expect to do a little Googling when things go awry. via ReadWriteWeb: Comics, The Real Story Behind…
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John Gruber and The Verge on Native Apps
The intersection of exquisitely-crafted native apps with ubiquitous networking and cloud-backed storage. [..] Used to be that native apps felt best but anchored your data to the device, and web apps running in a browser offered you ubiquitous access to your data but had a crummy front-end experience. We’re getting to a point now where…