Apple is doubling down on its two OS strategy. Tim Cook, as quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald: “We don’t believe in sort of watering down one for the other. Both [The Mac and iPad] are incredible. One of the reasons that both of them are incredible is because we pushed them to do what […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
Look at this screenshot of MacPaint from the mid-1980s. Now look at this screenshot of a current version of Microsoft Excel for Mac. Finally, consider just how different the two applications actually are. The former is a 30-year-old black and white first party application for painting while the latter is a current and unabashedly third […]
Apple introduced Core ML during their most recent WWDC keynote address. From Apple’s Newsroom: Core ML makes it easy for developers to create smarter apps with powerful machine learning that predict, learn and become more intelligent. Unlike the other announcements paraded on and off the McEnery Convention Center stage, Core ML wasn’t presented alongside some […]
This week brought two companies espousing two platforms with two very different approaches for bringing touch to traditional personal computers. Microsoft has long advocated that all input — mouse, pen, and touch — can all coexist in the same Windows UX. Apple on the other hand strongly believes that simply replacing the display of a […]
Looks like I am in good company with my take on how the media treats Hillary more harshly than Trump. This past Labor Day weekend, Paul Krugman wrote an excellent piece, aptly comparing this year’s media coverage to that of 2000’s election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. In it, Krugman observes: Yet throughout […]
Nick Heer over at Pixel Envy made a similar observation to mine about Google’s penchant for treating concepts the same as products. There’s a press-related angle to all of this, too, that I find particularly fascinating. Google’s PR strategy frequently seems to involve inviting journalists to preview their research experiments. But instead of framing them […]
The Verge’s take on Reuters’ report: Although Project Ara has always seemed a dubious commercial prospect, the news is surprising if only because Google made a renewed effort to push the modular concept at its I/O conference earlier this year, promising a developer version for fall and a consumer release for 2017. I/O to me […]
According to Nick Statt at the Verge, Google is moving on from the Nexus brand in favor of Google branding: Google is dropping the Nexus branding with its two upcoming, HTC-made smartphones. Instead, the company is expected to market the devices under a different name and to lean heavily on the Google brand in the […]
When I asked if the U.S. media had a political bias, a friend of mine suggested that the media’s bias for narrative is bigger than anything to do with politics. Nearly a decade later, I find this observation holds true and is particularly noticeable during this year’s election between the former Senator and Secretary of […]
From Aarti Shahani at NPR: Researchers set up a competition, pitting a Baidu program called Deep Speech 2 against 32 humans, ages 19 to 32. The humans took turns saying and then typing short phrases into an iPhone — like “buckle up for safety” and “wear a crown with many jewels” and “this person is […]