There’s a tech industry habit of second-guessing “what would Steve Jobs have done" ever since he passed away, and most of the things people attribute to h...

I've spent a couple weeks using a new 14" Apple MacBook Pro daily (as a replacement for my last machine, which was a similar, but rather terrible, 2016...

Ted Lasso, the standout series of Apple's new Apple TV+ streaming service, rightfully earned a place on many people's lists of the most-recommended new shows o...

Congratulations to Function with Anil Dash for being named podcast of the year! In a media landscape absolutely littered with sound-alike tech podcasts reh...

Forgive me, for I am about to commit gadget blogging. I've been using an iPhone X since they came out, and almost from the start my battery has charged between...

Apple spent $5 billion on a beautiful new office, Apple Park. So it’s amazing they’re about to make an extremely costly, avoidable mistake: putting their coder...

Everybody’s got advice on what Twitter needs to do at its current crossroads. The answer might lie in revisiting the moment they first broke geeks’ hearts....

[For context: This piece was written two years before the Apple Watch was released, when rumors began to ramp up.] A brief timeline of Apple iWatch’s entranc...

Anil: Just getting ready to liveblog this event. My first Apple liveblog ever. Pretty excited. 10/23/2012 4:56:26 PM Anil: Tim Coo...

There are lots of different ways to measure how friendly a company is toward developers, and whether a tech company complies with the values that its developer...

The classic criticism that thoughtless Apple haters use against the company is that it makes products that are pretty but dumb. Usually those criticisms are by...

Today a number of folks are talking about the importance of public transit data as Apple tries to shift from Google’s historic integration of public transit...

This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my explorat...

Last week, I was thrilled to see the launch of Mixel . If you aren’t familiar with it, go grab the iPad app , and while it downloads, take a look at this vid...

For the past several days, Apple’s stock has been rising high enough that the company has flitted between being the first and second most valuable company in t...

I’ve been waiting a year for someone to write about this, but my laziness has not yet paid off, so here are a few things that we all know about everybody’s fav...

About a year and a half ago, I was disappointed with one of the key choices Apple had made, given that they’re often described as one of the most admired compa...

Providing more evidence that blogging is something you can get better at the longer you do it, my friend Rafe Colburn put out a brilliant post the other day ou...

Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politi...

Apple took the not-very-surprising step of announcing an App Store for Mac OS X, an idea I was ruminating about earlier today in looking at all the app store...

Apple’s App Store for iOS dominates people’s perceptions whenever you mention the phrase “App Store”. But it’s actually just one member of a much larger set of...

I’m not a Democrat; I don’t much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need...

Today brings two announcements of great import to music fans, but they’re most notable for who’s not involved: The major record labels. First, The Beatles ar...

I’ve really been enjoying the response to my recent blog posts — here are some more thoughtful replies. Rafe Colburn, one of my favorite bloggers for a decad...

Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some...

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

One of the most satisfying and fun things I’ve ever seen in my job was the sight of my friend and coworker Michael Sippey onstage with Steve Jobs and the App...

An application that appears cluttered or illogical is harder to understand and use. Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautifully your applicatio...

In an excellent post about Meg Whitman’s retirement , David Galbraith succinctly summarizes the most important thing about eBay’s potential: Ebay is all a...

Phew! A warm welcome to my regular readers, now that I’ve had the misfortune of being visited by the worst of the rest of the web’s audience. I should have kno...

Although I’ve been accused sometimes of reflexive contrariness , the truth is I’m just pretty consistent in my assessments of technology, with little regard f...

I try not to ramble on too much about my work, except for a little “I love the people I work with!” post every few months, but I did want to point out one sati...

One of the things I love most about my job is that sense of discovery you get from working with people that are chock-full of good ideas. One great example is...

Mitch Wagner has a provocative, comprehensive, and entertaining look at the recent conversations about Apple and the enterprise over at InformationWeek entitle...

The Premise: Anyone who creates technologies that aspire to have significant cultural or social impacts on the developed world has to focus on both our lives...

This is one of those “how to market a product effectively” examples that’s been kicking around in my brain for a while, I thought I’d share it. About half a de...

I found Frank Hilario’s rant entitled Microsoft’s Mr Bill Gates And The Boy Who Cried Worp to be largely incoherent, but from what I could deduce, he thinks...

Microsoft has just launched the Zune , which will be one of the most popular digital music players ever made, and could have been considered a wild s...

Sometimes I just can’t resist amusing myself when talking in a public forum. My wife recently got a MacBook, which marks the first time I’ve ever had a Mac in...

This is the first post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is the N...

Whoops, I should have mentioned this in time for you to see it live, but I was on Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak today. It’s a fun little web video show (vlog...

Right now, the most important thing you could be doing is reading these web pages: Jeff Clavier celebrates his second blogging anniversary and quotes me...

A little cursory research shows that Microsoft sells roughly as many licenses for Windows XP Media Center Edition as Apple does for Mac OS X, on a quarter-by-q...

Lots of people in both the music/media and technology businesses are obsessed with beating Apple’s work on the iPod and iTunes. With the CES show being this we...

Prince’s S.S.T. , his (surprisingly good) Hurricane Katrina relief track is now up on the iTunes Music Store . Nice that you don’t have to be in his little o...

I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today’s announcement with excitement...

Brent Simmons has been on an incredible roll recently on his weblog , covering little inconsistencies and frustrations in the Mac OS X interface that have con...

I guess ad space on blogs is worth something. Remember back when Google wouldn’t let bloggers run AdSense on their sites? Now they’re spamming people to convi...

The iTunes Music Store now takes PayPal . Now I can start a DropCash campaign to have people buy me music!...

Eight years ago, Tunes.com was offering audio samples for 200,000 songs, as part of its attempt to sell downloadable music over the web. What was Apple doing...

Panic’s story of Audion is truly beautiful, a great narrative that can only come from people who love making software. Also not to be missed is the post fro...

As is to be expected now that you can get paid a nickel for sending people to the iTunes store, there’s a blog that sifts through iTMS and links to highlights....

When I used to work in music promotion, we talked a lot about pre-loading PCs or other devices with music videos and songs. Sippey did the best job of describ...

Howard Stern moves to satellite radio . Jeff Jarvis swoons, buys Sirius stock, petitions Apple to add Sirius downloads to iTunes....

I could never figure out exactly why I liked Alicia Keys’ “ You Don’t Know My Name ” so much. I mean, it’s a fine song, featuring beautiful production by Kanye...

It’s really unseemly how much we’re enjoying watching Nelly’s “Search for Miss Applebottom” on VH1. It’s basically an entire show about Nelly looking at women’...

Sometimes I like to read Jon Udell’s weblog . He’s a smart guy with good ideas, and comes up with eloquent ways of expressing them. When I find things that I...

A few days ago, Gen asked me to do a writeup of the new laptop I got, a vpr Matrix 200A5 . I’m not usually prone to describing the gadgets and gizmos I buy,...

I’ve always been pretty platform-neutral, so Apple’s little announcements are only of marginal interest to me. But the idea of developing a digital communicati...

You heard it here first: Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is the new Netscape 4. On a more substantive Macintosh web development note, we know that OS X s...

I just got out of the shower, and these are the things I thought of. I am somehow unable to take a shower in anything less than thirty minutes. I say to pe...

Apple is committing a grave folly in not taking advantage of their tight OS/hardware integration. People forget just how much one can do with well-integrated h...

My campaign to try and sell the virtues of NYC seems to be proceeding swimmingly ....

From Apple’s "Switch" website : "XP doesn’t have a slide show…" Hmm....

One of the great things about working with true Cult of the Dogcow Mac afficionados is that they’re so brainwashed that they don’t even realize how amusing the...

Love the Apple, and it’ll love you back. Like New York Solitaire . Like the Daily Tip Sheet . Most places will give something back if you give to them. This...

I am always surprised at what things get huge responses… People have been emailing me like crazy about the “links in new windows” thing. Let me clarify: I’m no...

I have had a lot of thoughts in the past year about Microsoft’s Tablet PC initiative, and I’ll cover those later. But, there is one opportunity from their pu...

A couple of things that I should let you all know: I am fine overall, and doing better emotionally. I really, truly appreciate all the kind words and e...

This is a weird thing: On the side of a phone booth outside my office building, there’s an ad from a company called Streetbeam . (Warning: Wacky Flash anima...

Regarding the new PowerBook : "Reflecting Apple’s typical engineering innovation, Titanium’s keyboard is attached with magnets and pulls off easily,...

I want to start my own company again. Ironic, since I started my last company in the same kind of precession economy that we’re in right now. But it’ll be cool...

This guy sums up my misgivings about MacOS X pretty well....

Ironic, Apple’s Airport base station for wireless networking is actually just a 486 PC with a Lucent PCMCIA card in it . Of course, it’s got that nice round p...

Leave it to Tog to come up with this clever little quote: Apple has, of course, always had a multi-button mouse. It’s just that the other buttons�Command...

Interesting observation, now that I work in a mostly-Mac office… (I have the only PC) All of the Mac users have PC’s at home in addition to their Macs, which...

Okay, now I know I had talked about standardizing website navigation a few days ago, since Apple and Amazon and everyone else have tabs on their sites now. B...

I’ll be your best friend if you buy me this ....

Having been reminded of the site by q , I’m glad I got to rediscover [Forgotten NY]( http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Home page/index.html), which lists all kinds...

But enough about me . Today we feature guest peeves. First, from TurlyMing dot com : A short list of things that annoy me, in no particular order: – Fa...

Glad to see Jason agrees with me on OS X . He also incidentally points a link to Aberro , which features Levi’s Flat Eric spots, which I only recently be...

While talking to Damien I remarked that the only way Apple could jeopardize its recent revitalization would be to compromise the usability and elegant desi...

A nice update on the idea of improving tactile feedback is this related concept from Microsoft Research , a touch-sensitive mouse . The prototype appears t...