It dawned on me recently that mst media I now purchase is temporary and that a lot of it is in a place I am unaware of. For example, when I purchase films they sit on an iTunes server,… Read More ›
Articles
The filter bubble
Any technology is in itself neutral. With the possible exception of what artificial intelligence will become. Bob I think that there is a degree of nuance here, and a need to be slightly careful in referring to technology as “neutral”. If… Read More ›
AirPods vs Apple Watch (again)
I’ll bet that AirPods were designed by a small team whereas the watch always felt like design by committee. Certainly one possible reason why there was such a major change in WatchOS 3. AirPods don’t have the range of functions… Read More ›
What is innovation?
Arguing with my sparring partner, we got to think about what innovation is, like the iPhone launch – if it was more the thunderbolt of a new idea, or incremental progress suddenly revealed. I think it’s both – someone high… Read More ›
AirPods vs Apple Watch
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 ›
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 ›
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