I am obviously not going to compare the AirPods with the Apple Watch because they are 2 completely different products, but they do represent the difference between a product that fits into your life and helps you, and a… Read More ›
Articles
People tell me the internet is a bad thing. They may be right…
I have on occasion battled with work colleagues and relatives who tell me that the internet is a force for bad and that very little good comes from it. How crazy are they? I mean, the internet is everything and… Read More ›
What Apple still needs to do
Apple may have knocked me sideways with the quality of the AirPods, but there remain a few areas in which the company needs to improve its offerings. Some of these are quite small, but together they offer holes in the… Read More ›
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
Fairness is the unspoken promise of most video games. Controlled by an omniscient and omnipotent designer, a video game has the capacity to be ultimately just, and players expect that it will be so. (Designers also have an incentive to… Read More ›
The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse
BitTorrent had already tried to be the next Netflix, starting long before Netflix had become the next Netflix. The company was founded in 2004 by Bram Cohen, inventor of the open-source protocol that lent the startup its name, and Ashwin… Read More ›
When Apple wins, we all win
All of a sudden the wireless headphone market is a thing. After years in which wireless audio solutions have been nothing more than a novelty that dispenses with wires in favour of terrible quality audio, we now have the AirPods… Read More ›
The Final Flight of Martin McNally
Finally alone after eleven hours of feverish demands, threats and hostage exchanges, the hijacker pulled off his shaggy brown wig and began to disrobe. He shrugged out of a burgundy sport coat, white dress shirt and yellow trousers — it… Read More ›
One device for each task
I have spent many years searching for the perfect smartphone and latterly doing the same with watches, and multiple other products. It reaches the point where the search is more fun than the end result and it can also be… Read More ›
The true diversity brought forth was virtual…
I guess you could argue some small portion of the physical diversity moved to people’s choice of case. My girlfriend has one with a built-in loop- I’d find it clunky but she loves the security of it. A silver lining… Read More ›
To Trolls, With Love
It’s hard to convey the scope of harassment I’ve experienced in recent weeks. There were death threats, doxing threats, and rape threats. I think of the source in abstraction, as if it’s some moldy monstrosity in its mother’s basement, less… Read More ›
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