Tag: Apple
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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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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DadCast Episode 41• The Dads Go Fourth
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… It’s the Fourth Series of the DadCast. In this season’s opener, the Dads talk about their summer projects, including new PC’s, tablets, TV, and how to cope when the Analogue Signal dies out forever. We’d like to thank our new sponsors this year, two awesome Canadian…
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Paul Thurrot Still Doesn’t Understand Upgrade Cycles
There’s a long-running joke that Apple’s fans would buy anything the company sold, no matter the quality. But this past weekend, the joke became reality when the Cupertino consumer electronics giant sold 4 million units of a smart phone, the iPhone 4S, which even its most charitable supporters have described as an evolutionary update over…
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Thank You Steve
From the first time that I touched a computer, I knew that this was going to be a revolutionary technology. The first time I touched a Mac, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. From the Macintosh sitting on my friends Pat Casey’s desk to the Macintosh LC we had in…
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Stop, Drop, and Roll — the Kindle is on Fire!
So the Kindle Fire has been announced, followed by the iPhone 5 – no wait, the 4S, and we’ve got Google, RIM, Nokia and everyone else lining up for their shot at end-of-year/pre-shopping killer announcements. Of course the iPhone 5iPhone 4S killed them all, but that’s not surprising and hardly worth debating. Nothing to talk…
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My Thoughts on New iPhone Day
In about 4 hours, Tim Cook will take the stage for his first ever keynote as CEO of Apple and he will talk about phones. That is all that Apple has said officially so far. However this Apple and the mobility world and the Technorati can’t help themselves from making the wildest and most improbable…