Author: Adam

Apple shows how its technology is helping to open the world to the blind, to the impoverished, or to those for whom even basic communication is a struggle. You get the impression that someone there gives a damn about the people using their products. Diogenex: Thoughts on a Keynote, 2012

Your aim is information overload. Ensure that your Twitter app is open and Growl is enabled. Open seven or eight live blogs – they will crash, so start with as many as you can. Make sure you have the Gizmodo one open, so you can laugh at how bitter they are that they haven’t been […]

I worked on a high-profile app at Apple when Marklar was just a rumor even inside Apple. I was one of the four engineers working on VideoConference.framework, the videoconferencing core of iChat. Our app was ported to Intel without the knowledge of the engineers on our team, a pretty impressive feat. I actually inserted a […]

Facebook’s camera app was given the first Editor’s Choice award ever on the App Store when it was released last week. In addition, it was allowed to ship with an icon that looks startlingly similar to Apple’s own camera icon and displays on home screens with its name reading simply ‘Camera’. I haven’t seen any […]

To me, this is what a preliminary WWDC conference schedule would look like if Apple were set to announce a new developer platform… Daring Fireball: Let’s Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012

If there’s a problem for Apple it’s that they’ve already invented the future. It’s a done deal. http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/305

China produces goods for markets all over the world, including for its own consumers, thanks to low costs, a large and educated workforce, and a flexible manufacturing system that responds rapidly to market demands. To imagine that we have willed this universe into being is simply solipsistic. It is also demeaning to the workers. We […]