What to know about the 2021 M1 MacBook Pro 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...
A Much Faster Way to Charge your iPhone 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...
A Brief History of Apple's iWatch [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...
Apple Special Event Liveblog 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...
What Developers Want 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...
Who benefits from iOS6's crappy maps? 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...
What they're "protecting" us from 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...
Apple's Twitter 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...
Apple and Appropriate Secrecy 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...
Freedom, Trust, and Other Boring Software Features 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...
How to Make an Open App Store on the Mac 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...
All The App Stores 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...
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale 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...
Sippey, Superstar! 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...
Fanboys Are Stupid, But You Are Not 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...
Smug Ugly 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...
Make It Better 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...
The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition 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...
Telling the Backup Story 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...
Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes) 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...
lack of ambition 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...