October 2010
15 posts
Between App Store rocks and a hard place
No matter how good your application is, no matter how novel, how brilliant, how special — none of it matters if you don’t have anyone to use it.
This is Erica Sadun from TUAW’s argument as to why the app store rocks. This may be true for her, because she has had success with the iOS App Store and sees the Mac App Store as a similar opportunity. The problem is that unlike when...
The current US election makes parody obsolete
And Ms. Davis suggested that her experience running an escort service made her the candidate best prepared to reform the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
“The key difference between the M.T.A. and my former escort agency is I operated one set of books and I offered on-time and reliable service,” Ms. Davis said to laughter and applause.
The current US election doesn’t even need to...
“I’m just not sold on what the magazines are doing. Masturbatory novelty is not a...”
– iPad as the new Flash – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Yep. Rejoicing because you can finally sell a 200MB “app” you made by exporting a magazine from InDesign as images doesn’t seem like playing the long game to me either.
“Steve’s point of reference was Sony at the time. He really wanted to be Sony. He...”
– Great insights. My how the tables have turned…
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
iTunes has enough servers
The solution could be a server version of iTunes, which would let households organize all of their family’s media on one computer and allow each user to connect to this Mac to listen to music, view videos, and sync their iOS devices.
I used to think this, but I don’t anymore. From a design perspective it’s clear this should live in the cloud. Spotify have demonstrated it’s...
INQ + Facebook + Spotify
It seems Om Malik agrees with me on the potential of a Facebook + Spotify device. It also seems likely that INQ is building the thing.
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details
I also find his thoughts on spliting the Facebook components up into individual apps for photos, places, newsfeed, etc interesting. You would end up with apps like Flickr, Foursquare and Twitter but with the...