Here’s the opening of Satya Nadella’s statement, as reported by The Verge After nearly 20 years at the company, Panos Panay has decided to leave Microsoft. Panos has had an incredible impact on our products and culture as well as the broader devices ecosystem. Under Panos’ leadership, the team created the iconic Surface brand with […]
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Launch Origin, which can’t update, log in, or reset password. Search the web, find that Origin has been rebranded to “the EA app” (I think “Origin” is a better name, but whatever.) Download and install the EA app, which requires the PC to restart. Nothing suspicious there. The newly downloaded EA app requires a password […]
To my great surprise, I find myself agreeing with a take from The Verge, where Allison Johnson writes… I don’t think we’ve seen everything that the Dynamic Island can do. More apps will start using it, especially if the whole iPhone 15 lineup adopts the feature like the rumors suggest. But it’s definitely not an […]
While I have switched to HomePods for other rooms in our house, they aren’t really suitable for our kitchen due to limited counter space. For that room, I have been using a traditional receiver and speakers above the cabinets. This isn’t acoustically ideal, but it works well enough. The main issue I’ve had with this […]
Time was many people, myself included, replaced their smartphone every two years and even upgrading annually wasn’t uncommon. Early new models of iPhones added significant features that greatly benefited ever customer — eponymous 3G networking, massive performance increases, and Retina displays, to name a few. As with other kinds of computers, the need to upgrade […]
Meta’s Quest 2 supports a resolution of 1832×1920 pixels per eye and costs $300. Sony’s VR2 headset supports a resolution 2000×2040 pixels per eye and costs $550 plus another $500 for the Playstation 5 to drive it. Apple’s upcoming Vision Pro supports more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye and will cost $3500. […]
From Chris Welch, at The Verge: Let’s get right to it: the 5K display, which is being positioned as a prosumer option meant to rival monitors from LG and Apple, will cost $1,599.99 and you’ll be able to purchase it from Samsung and other retailers in August. $1,599 is the same starting MSRP as Apple’s […]
Neil Jhaveri, on Mimestream’s blog: Mimestream combines the power of macOS with Gmail’s advanced features for a new kind of email client that lets you move through your email effortlessly. Unlike other email clients that use the decades-old IMAP protocol, Mimestream uses the Gmail API for a new kind of lightning-fast experience that’s full of […]
A large part of the consternation surrounding Apple’s purported AR/VR headset is that it falls short of the real killer product, AR glasses. While writing my last post, it dawned on me this consternation is reminiscent to that surrounding Apple’s various notches. Tech enthusiasts want Apple to deliver a true edge-to-edge experience with the camera, […]
I think people have become too married to the idea that AR/VR needs to be ubiquitous to be considered a success to the point where it’s distorted our whole thinking about the product category. This is why their ideal headset needs to be priced in the mid-hundreds, because that’s the price where ubiquity is possible. […]