Tag Archives: Apple

Is Facebook Taking Inspiration From Apple’s App Store?

In the coming weeks Facebook will be launching a new “Dashboard” screen for their Applications. At first glance it has many similarities to the iTunes app store, but looking a bit deeper there also seems to be quite a few lessons that Apple could learn from Facebook’s plans: The Dashboard As you can see from [...]

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How Laptops Could Soon Be Free

How Laptops Could Soon Be Free

Like many people out there I’ve been pretty interested in finding out more about Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Operating System that they announced this week – Microsoft Azure. I won’t go into too much detail on what it is here, firstly because it was only the inspiration for this post not it’s subject, and secondly because [...]

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Apple’s Big “Let’s Rock” Announcement

Apple’s Big “Let’s Rock” Announcement

Here’s the main info from the press conference that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) held today (info from the live updates here here here and here). This is a summary of the main announcements with my thoughts on a few. iTunesItunes 8 is being launched. This new version comes with a few new features:Browse the store in cover [...]

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Ahhh! No Chrome for Mac!

Ahhh! No Chrome for Mac!

So I ran straight over to http://www.google.com/chrome to get some of that sweet Google Browsery goodness, only to find that it’s a windows release only (for now). I’ve signed myself up for updates on the mac version but no word as of yet. For those of you who haven’t heard about Chrome, it’s google’s new [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Obituary

Oh my. A simple enough mistake, somebody hit ‘publish’ instead of ‘save’ when updating Steve Jobs’ Obituary at Bloomberg. It’s a bit cringeworthy/spooky that they’re writing an obituary for the yet-to-be-deceased 53 year old, and it certainly won’t help Steve and his family with their worries over his health, but I suppose in the world [...]

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