Aug. 13 2009

zudfunck:

Kid Vlogs From Apple Store, We Smell a New Commercial Campaign

i gotta feeling part 2 (via nicholifavs)

this is pretty good.

Jun. 23 2009

bleikamp:

Interesting job requirement for Apple’s lead front end engineer position.

not sure how to feel about this. innovation is good, yes. arguably the lifeblood of apple’s dominance. however, i’m not sure they used the language they want to use here. either they’re overturning a new leaf and opening up a bit or they, amazingly, might not really understand how to approach the social web.

inherently, we share things we find interesting, valuable, useful, etc. but, more often than not, when people try to design things only to generate attention - the opposite happens. not doubting apple’s value and function tenants but the vernacular - as ben said - is an interesting choice.

maybe they’re just trying to communicate what they want in someone to the lowest-common denominator? if so, hopefully, those won’t be the kind of applicants they get.

Jul. 15 2008

This connects to a mystery about the iPhone. What’s the reason that copy and paste is missing? The underlying operating system is OSX, so it’s obviously supported. It’s a function has been supported from the very beginning of the computer. Perhaps it’s a signal of a new kind of limit being enforced on the digital world.

The iPhone’s Missing Copy & Paste: The Dog that Didn’t Bark in the Night (via azspot).

This is a stupid implication. The iPhone doesn’t have copy-and-paste because it has no universal notion of text selection or context menus in standard text input fields, and designing such features in a graceful, accessible, and non-confusing way on a device with (essentially) no buttons is challenging.

It’s not some DRM conspiracy.

(via marco)

Jun. 17 2008

Safari Not Created to Promote Openness, Innovation and Opportunity

camh:

Safari Not Created to Promote Openness, Innovation and Opportunity

Earlier today Mozilla launched the third major version of Firefox, after being unavailable for almost half of their much…

click through and read.  cameron makes solid points and back up, partially, why i used safari now instead of firefox.  more so, i’m starting to understand the strong correlations between hardware and software.  apple develops it’s software so closely to the hardware and operating system that you’re always hard pressed to find a better computing solution.