Meet The Man Behind Twitter's HUGE Integration With Apple
[…] Twitter is very well known in the mainstream.
It is not, however, very well used in the mainstream.
In fact, despite having something like 300 million registered users, Twitter only had about 25 million or so monthly active users as of this spring. That sounds like a lot until you remember that Facebook has 600 million monthly active users.
The main problem is that Twitter is too hard to understand and use for normal people. The good news for Twitter, is that its management team knows Twitter isn’t used by the mainstream yet and they are desperate to fix the problem […]
Daring Fireball: Demoted
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen. That’s what we’ll remember about today’s keynote ten years from now.
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads […]
The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today. I’d never have had the ability to run whatever stupid, potentially harmful, hugely educational programs I could download or write. I wouldn’t have been able to fire up ResEdit and edit out the Mac startup sound so I could tinker on the computer at all hours without waking my parents. The iPad may be a boon to traditional eduction, insofar as it allows for multimedia textbooks and such, but in its current form, it’s a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy.
To my knowledge, Apple controls the entire source code to the iPhone OS. That’s not to say they wrote the whole thing from scratch. Many low-level OS components are open source. But they have the source. If there’s a bug, they can fix it. If something is slow, they can optimize or re-write it. That is not true for Mac OS X, and Flash is a prime example. The single leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X is a component that Apple can’t fix.
A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins
Ars Technica: “Let’s take a moment to summarize some of Apple’s latest pro-DRM and pro-DMCA moves […]”
Daring Fireball: The Tablet
De la tauleta que Apple estaria a punt de presentar, se n’han dit ja moltes coses, però poques tan intel·ligents i interessants com aquestes reflexions de John Gruber. Ell creu que serà un nou tipus de dispositiu, alternatiu als portàtils (MacBook) i més pròxim a l’iPhone pel que fa al concepte i al grau d’abstracció de la interfície respecte al maquinari. Ja avisa, en tot cas, que són especulacions. La situació, com diu ell, és similar a la que va precedir l’anunci de l’iPhone. Tothom esperava un mòbil, però ningú s’imaginava com era.
Veurem (aviat?) si encerta.
If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or just anything, I say you’re thinking too small — the equivalent of thinking that the iPhone was going to be just a click wheel iPod that made phone calls. I think The Tablet is nothing short of Apple’s reconception of personal computing.
