Worth Reading: ‘Apple’s Plan To Empty Your Wallet’
Joshua Marino on Medium looks at what Apple has accomplished with Apple Pay and Passbook, and looks at where Apple may go next in its...
Watch Random People React To Smartphone App Permissions Requests
Do you read the privacy policies or permissions requests for the apps and services you use every day? If you’re like most people, your answer...
Worth Reading: iMore On TUAW’s Demise
My friend and former IDG colleague Serenity Caldwell shares her thoughts on TUAW’s closure and the state of tech media: “To build a good niche blog,...
Worth Reading: The Eight Stock Photos You Meet in Heaven
We live on the Internet. We’ve all seen them. We’ve all felt it. But only Philip Michaels dares speak what’s been on our minds for...
Worth Reading: ‘Nobody Knows What An iPad Is Good For Anymore’
There are enough pundits who are chiming in (or will soon do so) on the fact that iPad sales have declined year-over-year yet again, so...
Worth Reading: Stephen Hackett On Microsoft’s Big Day
Stephen Hackett over at 512 Pixels takes a look at Microsoft’s Windows 10 announcement event: “Like many who have been in the Apple camp for a...
Worth Reading: ‘A Final Laptop’
Matt Gemmell lo0ks at the current MacBook Air and wonders whether there’s much room for it to evolve further: “Rumours abound at the moment about an...
Worth Watching: ‘A Brief History Of User Interface’
Ever wonder how we got from complex, room-sized computers that only trained operators could use to absurdly simple touchscreen-based tablets anyone can use? Never mind...
Worth Reading: ‘Apple Has Lost The Functional High Ground’
Marco Armet is concerned about the current state of Apple’s software releases: “Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the...
Worth Reading: ‘The Crapification Of Great iOS Apps’
Mike Wehner at TUAW looks at how free-to-play is ruining the experience of using iOS: “I love physics-based games, and Fish Out Of Water by Halfbrick Studios is...
Worth Reading: Life On Dial-Up In 2014
For those of us who spend countless hours reading and watching video online per day, it can be hard to forget that there are still...
Worth Reading: Do NOT Lose Your Apple ID Recovery Key
After Mat Honan’s iCloud account was very publically owned, Apple enabled two-factor authentication. When you turn on two-factor authentication for your account, Apple provides you...
Worth Trying: Use A Different Font In Messages
iChat Messages in Yosemite is great if you like your conversations in Helvetica. If you don’t, well, you don’t have much of a choice. But TidBITS’ Adam...
Yosemite Bug: Beware The Ever-Expanding Save Sheet
Jason Snell, my former colleague with IDG and the proprietor of Six Colors, highlighted a funky bug that affects the sheet that slides out when...
Worth Reading: Why Doesn’t Handoff Work For Music?
Once you start using it, Handoff in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite becomes second nature. But Dan Moren of Six Colors brings up a...
Worth Reading: ‘The Forgotten Shores Of App Store Pricing’
Jason Snell—my former colleague at IDG who now writes at Six Colors—took a look at some of the factors at play that contributed to the outrage over...
Worth Reading: A Tale Of Two Microsofts
It’s no Dickens, but take a look at Ben Thompson’s assessment of the new Microsoft under Satya Nadella. It’s a fairly good summation of the evolution...
Worth Seeing: The Original Mac’s Screen Versus The Retina iMac
Things of Interest’s Kent Akgungor on the jarring difference 30 years of display technology advanceent makes: “When first released in 1984, the Apple Macintosh shipped with a black-and-white...