So after purchasing and downloading Xcode via the App Store only to discover I didn’t have enough disk space to install the app, I came up with an acceptable, if less than ideal, workaround. I’m not terribly happy with the state of things, but hey, at least I was able to get things back to [...]
It’s rare that I see a blog post with comments that are consistently smarter and more well-informed than the post itself. But, folks, we have a winner. This article by 37Signals’ “David” is just such a mythical beast. It’s so infuriatingly bad, so completely misinformed, and so utterly borne of ignorance and frustration, that I [...]
Regarding this article, via Daring Fireball: It seems to me that the reason Apple made stores in the first place was that they had something to prove, and the best way to make their point was to show rather than to tell. Back in the day there were a whole lot of people who were [...]
There seems to be no end in sight to the anti-freedom arguments being leveled against Apple. I see new ones every day. And I maintain that the problem with the majority of these arguments is that they misdirect or conflate the wrong things. A recent example comes from Mr. Dave Winer (via Daring Fireball). Winer, [...]
The whole Apple vs. Adobe thing is fascinating to me. The fact that Steve Jobs has now personally and publicly written on the matter highlights what a big deal it is. And now the Free Software Foundation has responded with a missive on open software. For my part I largely agree with Jobs’ take and [...]
Just a note to say that my MacBook Pro arrived yesterday (Sep 9). I’ve not had a chance to play much with it beyond transferring my data, but I’ll be sure to report on it as soon as I can. Also, today (Sep 10) my Snow Leopard Box Set — which I pre-ordered from Amazon [...]
Apparently, Sprint’s not doing so well. Apparently they’re having customer retention problems. That means that people would rather go to the hassle of changing phone service providers than continue giving their money to Sprint. While it wasn’t my number one reason for switching, I can say from personal experience that Sprint’s horrendous customer service was [...]
If this is what the rumored Apple tablet is going to be — basically a bigger version of the iPod Touch — then I’ll pass. I mean, really, what’s the point of a device like this? It’s too big to be an iPod or an extremely mobile computing device like the iPhone, and I already [...]
So for, like, forever Google apps — in particular, Gmail and Google Calendar — have bore a beta label. Now, no one has any idea why this has been the case, but this week Google has decided to remove the beta label with little more than PR-speak as an explanation: “We realize this situation puzzles [...]
The buzz around Twitter is, frankly, reaching a pitched and utterly annoying frenzy. Some of the latest stuff I’ve read, though, has inspired me to add my voice to the throngs. Yes, that would be you people. Now let me start by saying I don’t use Twitter. I don’t even have an account. And this [...]