Apple recently introduced in the Numbers spreadsheet the ability to pull live stock prices from the internet, making it now possible to track portfolio performance.…
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Long-time Apple customers became accustomed over the years to thoughtful and delightful interaction design. As Apple has grown—and perhaps as Steve Jobs has passed, and…
Having an extended family spread geographically far and wide, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that a Mac/iOS feature I’d previously rarely used has ended…
In a recent Philip Greenspan post questioning Apple’s competitive edge going forward, I found myself sympathizing with this anecdote: What about Apple’s supposed leadership in…
The navigation app, Waze, changed their external access mechanism, which broke apps like Rego, that used the old access mechanism. While no fault of Rego, we updated the app as soon as were were notified of the problem. But that didn’t stop a certain Rego customer from rushing off to leave a one-star review.
While traveling this past week, and staying in a hotel with awful wifi, I tried working with my MacBook Air tethered to my iPhone 6.…
Mac OS X 10.10.3 introduced version 1.0 of Photos.app, Apple’s iCloud Photo Library enabled replacement for iPhoto and Aperture. Over the past couple of weeks,…
In anticipation of Apple’s Q2 earnings call on April 27, 2015, Fortune published some predictions of both professional and indie analysts. Will be interesting to…
This morning, in a post discussing my first impressions of iCloud Photo Library, I mentioned a concern about the synchronization of Faces data, which I’d…
Having updated to OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3, I’ve finally had the opportunity to start using iCloud Photo Library, and here are my initial…
For more than a decade, I’ve been accumulating music and curating playlists in iTunes, all of which has physically been located on the SSD of my MacBook Air. And for the past couple of years, I’ve been sharing that library with other devices—computers, Apple TV, iOS devices—via iTunes Match.
RaceSplitter is an app that provides “do it yourself” timing of sport events. It’s been on the market for three years and has gone through…
After reading about Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, I started thinking about the revenue and public valuations of the giant advertising companies—Google, Facebook and Twitter—as compared to that of Apple:
Back in August, I purchased a 4TB G-Drive at the Apple Store in Marbella to serve as the destination that CrashPlan uses when backing up…
My iPad mini seems to have a hardware problem. Frequently, when I activate the device by opening its Smart Cover, I find it in one…
I once saw an ad for a fake Rolex that read: Don’t spend $5,000 for a real Rolex, because wearing that kind of money on…
I get a lot of email that I’m interested in reading, but which I don’t want cluttering up my inbox. In the past, I tried…
Here’s to hoping that with Apple’s forthcoming new iPhones, they’ll drop the anodizing of the outer band (as they seem to have done with the…
Manual app updating, prior to iOS7, was beneficial to developers as a mechanism to notify their customers that a new version was available[^fn-abuse]. Since Apple…
Apple’s app review process seems to get its share of knocks in the developer press, but we at Makalu recently had a positive experience which…
SPRINT ARE BRINGING OUT THE BIG GUNS, with this truly powerful advertisement for the, uh — not sure exactly what it’s called, The Sprint HTC…
It seems Apple has no competition these days, and judging just from advertising, I’m thinking we’re a good ways off from seeing any. Why? Try as they may to copy, companies like Samsung just don’t get it. My colleague Alex and I today were discussing the striking difference in advertising, in the latest issue of Fortune magazine (which is full of Samsung Galaxy ads.)
I’m writing this article in the hope that someone at Apple USA might read it, and come to understand what kind of service your customers…
