From Daring Fireball’s Sixty-Six: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic ‘overall PC market share’ number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the ‘overall PC market’ includes millions [...]
February 13, 2008 – 12:12 pm
From Maclife’s An Interview With Spore’s Infectious Designers: “In a word, Spore is overwhelming. This ultimate simulation is coming to Macs and PCs simultaneously on September 7, 2008. But somehow, this simulation of early life, evolution, tribal interactions, rise of civilizations, and interplanetary colonization makes ‘overwhelming’ a good thing. We recently stopped by EA’s Maxis [...]
February 1, 2008 – 11:29 am
Back in October, I wrote about My Leopard Installation Adventure, but before that, I explained why I was becoming an early adopter of the new Macintosh operating system, which was, namely, that my Mac mini was broken and I hoped Leopard could fix it.
One week ago today, I finally admitted that it couldn’t.
Here’s what happened. [...]
November 7, 2007 – 12:20 pm
From a post on Salon’s Machinist blog, entitled, Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs: “The present article is an attempt to prove to you that, on price alone, the Mac…will cost you less money — real, honest-to-goodness American dollars — …than…that PC.”
November 5, 2007 – 06:00 am
There’s a new feature in Leopard. It has to do with the “Help” menu, and not just in Apple programs like the Finder or iTunes, but the “Help” menu in any application, including Microsoft Office 2004. You click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar and along with the regular options, you get [...]
October 22, 2007 – 09:44 am
From the NY Times’, As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades: “It may have dropped the word “computer” from its name, but Apple is certainly selling plenty of Macs. Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market share of [...]
All you interface fanboys gotta check out Daring Fireball’s An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard.
Before we get to the links, let me first extend a hearty congratulations to the inestimable Teddy Haggerty and his new bride, Lisa, for throwing a wonderful wedding this past weekend. I think their ceremony may have been even shorter than mine and Dawn’s, and we eloped, for Christ’s sake! It was fantastic. Anyway, congratulations [...]
March 19, 2007 – 10:36 pm
From Waiting for Leopard: “It’s a double-shame that Apple seems to be slow out the gate with Leopard. Because 2007 probably presents the biggest opportunity Apple has had to increase their market share since, say, 1982, which was the last year that the company could have bought out Microsoft.” I read pretty much every Leopard [...]
January 22, 2007 – 11:46 am
From Literature and Latte: “Designed for use by writers of all kinds, Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It’s a notebook. It’s an outliner. It’s a cork notice-board. It’s a ring-binder. It’s a place to store and cross-reference your research. It’s a basic word processor. [...]
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