Monthly Archives: January 2024

My First Macintosh

The Mac turns 40 today, so I figured I’d use the occasion to write about my first Macintosh. Before he retired, my Dad was a consultant at a firm. What he did was niche, but he was top three in his field. While I was in elementary school, my dad threatened to go independent and […]

Apple Vision: The Best Way to Multitask iPad Apps

Since June, I have been thinking of Vision as being more Mac-like, in part because both were built for multitasking1. The more I think about it however, the more I think that Vision is really a rethinking of how multitasking iPad apps should work. Almost a year ago, I argued that multitasking on iPad suffered […]

Penny Foolish

Products and features need to resonate with an audience in order to succeed. People feel, sometimes immediately, when a feature resonates with them, and it’s that feeling that gives them a sense of whether a related product is revolutionary and not the other way around. The iPhone was almost immediately and universally recognized as a […]