Marco Argent on anti-Apple anger.
Jan 262013
Jul 292012
Just when I started to get to the grips with some of Lion’s idiosyncracies, Apple lets OS X 10.8 out.
Nothing über-mandatory in the feature list, but considering how cheap the update is, I’m definitely going for it one of these days.
Apr 082012
Allegedly half a million OS X-running computers have been infected with Flashback.
Mar 052012
With the impending arrival of iPad 3 on Wednesday, it will be interesting to see whether the quadrupled resolution of the screen generate a third branch of iOS software.
After all, the current iPad crop no longer is the highest density in the land.
Then again, going retina didn’t fragment the iPhone offering – the applications just adapted the two resolutions within to serve both the new and the old devices.
My bet is on the same happening again.
But the attraction of graphics 2048 pixel wide cannot be underestimated, hence the prospect of a “Full HD” qualifier. Which would, indeed, be appropriate, since the device can play Bluray content at full resolution.
Feb 282012
The rumor press probably won’t stop until the device is launched, but at least Apple now acknowledges that the “event” set for next Wednesday is indeed when the third generation iPad goes public.
Oct 062011
Oct 022011
Discovery of the week: Marco Arment’s blog, filled with goodness on many levels, mostly Apple-related.
Aug 262011
Exhibit A: Steve Jobs retires from running Apple.
Exhibit B: CmdrTaco retires from editorial duties in Slashdot.
Jul 272011
Never mind the knock-off products, the counterfeiters have taken up copying stores as well.
Jul 242011
Jun 052011
On Friday, as the markest closed, Apple was worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined.
Mar 102011
Apple’s Xcode 4 is out, and on a cursory first glance head and shoulders above the competition.
Mar 022011
Key facts: available almost immediately (worldwide within three weeks), dual core CPU, up to NINE times the GPU power of the first generation model. And availability in white as well.
Nov 092010
The forthcoming iPad software update (to iOS 4.2) looks good.
Not dated yet, the article ends on a hopeful note of “unless anything major comes up, it should be released this week.”
Oct 032010
The third trip to Berlin in 2010 turned out quite different than expected.
Business-wise the visit was very much OK, but other than that strange things were in much greater numbers than is common:
- Managed to mis-reserve the hotel room for the first night (with graceful assistance from the travel agents involved).
- Had to resort to on-the-spot reservation in Radisson BLU.
- Which has a magnificent million liter aquarium in its lobby.
- Witnessed the quality of german cars from the inside in a car crash. The Mercedes-Benz cab got rammed from behind by a small Toyota. Effects on MB: none, effects on the Toyota: totalled front.
- Endured a ninety minute traffic jam caused by the discovery of a WW2 bomb near the road.
- Ate a very american burger in a cuban restaurant.
- Saw a drinks menu rendered as the periodic system of elements (@Sanatorium 23).
- Saw Bugatti Veyron (in the ground floor of a Nokia office on Unter den Linden).
- Bought an iPad (16 gig model).
- Didn’t buy the newest issue of Amazonas (the usually trustworthy shop in Tegel had run out of it).
- No schnitzel, just one Whopper.
In the picture, the mighty tank in the Berlin Radisson BLU (part of the local Sealife, apparently).
Sep 302010
Following an adventuresome checkin last night, things have been in flux today.
Time for schnitzel and ipad soon.
Jul 162010
Though the mood is probably going to be on the negative side on today’s antenna-centric event.
May 072010
Sad but true, but picking one up in Germany in June is a credible proposition.
Apr 022010
Apple’s wonderslate is just about to hit the streets. Jason Kottke has collected the first reviews. Most of which are almost gushingly positive.
Mar 242010
The Fifth Avenue Apple Store is now the fifth most photographed building in New York.
Mar 072010
According to RockPaperShotgun Valve Corporation’s Steam content delivery system is about to arrive on OS X. Or on the iPhone/Touch/iPad. Or it might be just a red herring in the ongoing alternate reality game that centers on Portal 2.
Considering the rather poor state of game offerings in local stores, even with a vastly shorter list of Steamed games with Mac versions available than on the windows box, this is a very welcome piece of news indeed.
And the arrival of Portal and/or Half-life 2 at the same time would not be raising too many eyebrows either.
Jan 262010
For Apple’s tablet, that is:
Yes (duh), yes, yes ($899 for the lower-spec device), yes, yes, yes (Xcode 4), yes (the model’s been a rousing success), yes (at least a subset, with non-scaled resolution), yes, no, yes, yes, yes (itunes all the way), yes, yes, no (USB only), no (no haptics yet), yes, no (though eventually yes), yes (this is a killer platform for flash games), no (not yet, but definitely by the time next school year kicks off), yes (none of this i* stuff any longer), no, no, no, no, no, no, yes (yay Verizon), yes (especially if the screen has pressure-sensitive elements), no, yes (see previous), no, no, no, yes, no.
Scored tomorrow after the event.
Jan 242010
Meh, Lynch the Macbook Pro has undergone a drastic decrease in battery power lately.
Charging is slow, but consumption quick, even when sleeping.
This is no good.
And neither is the price that Apple offers – 140€ is on the steep side.
Sep 172009
Your company? There’s an app for that. How Apple competes with EVERYBODY.
Sep 112009
Snow Leopard seems to be worthwhile. So worthwhile that the downtown retailers seem to be sold out. Oh well, didn’t have any immediate need to update.