Apple’s Tablet: Why They Should Do Better and Why They Won’t

31 December 2009
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You see, this is the most excited I’ve been about an Apple product since the iPhone (and, before that, the iPod). Unfortunately, I already have an Apple tablet: it’s called the iPhone. And—bonus!—it fits in my pocket. Sure, the screen isn’t that large but do I really need a 7″ or 10″ screen for what I do with it? Do most people? Is the tablet seriously going to just be the large-sized-print version of your favorite book, geared for the bespectacled elders amongst us?

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Oh. I Have a Blog. Sorry, I Forgot.

29 December 2009

Okay, that’s a lie. I didn’t forget. In fact, I think about it just about every day and come away with a remarkable sense of grave disappointment. I have a fantastic domain, I dropped quite a bit of coin on Thesis, and I am arguably the greatest writer of our (or any) generation. So much [...]

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Snore Leopard and Your Unreasonable Expectations

1 September 2009
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Did I miss out on some big secret? Were people passing around news articles about Snow Leopard that I didn’t have the pleasure of reading myself? Did people read that Snow Leopard was anything more than an under-the-hood, non-socks-blown-off update to Leopard? Perhaps articles that touted all sorts of major new user experience features and [...]

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Sometimes What Needs to Change in the UI Are the User’s Expectations

19 August 2009
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In the Information Age, you can’t pick up a new tool without changing your expectations on how you plan to use it. This isn’t something I had really considered until tonight during a conversation on FriendFeed with Louis Gray and others about Google Reader as not only a new player in the social networking scene [...]

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Rest in Peace, FriendFeed

13 August 2009
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So, I launched this blog and then haven’t updated it in days. Trust me, I’ve been writing: I’ve seven drafts not including this one—most of which are nearly complete—to prove it. I’m just being hypercritical and, honestly, a little nervous. I feel like there are a lot of eyes on me eye and that puts [...]

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