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I always find it so adorable when I’m talking to someone about Apple’s strategy around the App Store model and they smirkingly explain that Apple’s push toward getting developers to use their app store to sell stuff is all part of a grand scheme to get 30% of their revenue. If you are truly convinced…

Meant to post this awhile back but I’ve been letting it simmer A post by Mark Vaske re: the Times’s article: The NYT’s article was released at an opportunistic time journalistically speaking after a record quarter and something that is probably historically significant. It reported years old events and figures. Would it have been more…

Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring The clever thing about this is that Apple is essentially just making an investment, the return of which is people buying millions more iPads. It closely mirrors Apple’s previous strategy with creating the iTunes Music Store back in the early 2000s.  The industries…

Once upon a time, there was this little company that developed a simple product that allowed people to take notes on a variety of platforms and have your notes synced in the cloud. People loved the service, and though it had quirks, the company was doing work on making the product better and there was…

Anyone else notice how in the tech world, when the “future” of something is being discussed, usually that future is death? And usually, the words uttered from the company’s mouth is that is not dead; it’s got a long future of support ahead of it; we’re just restructuring. Well, this isn’t one of those posts.…

I just got done reading the Steve Jobs bio, a huge theme of which was this battle during Jobs’s life of open systems vs. closed systems.  Let me promise you, this is not going to be a post about which one is better, but I do hope that I can cast a bit of light…

When i was in college and the banking crisis was at its peak, I remember reading a comment on Digg that explained that my generation was going to upend this status quo of how our economy works because we saw this disaster firsthand and we are about to take the world into our hands and…

A couple days after the death of Steve Jobs Twitter was abuzz with a quote from Richard Stallman: As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.”Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty…

So, at about 10:30 this morning I got a nice little bundle of joy from UPS.  After a few hours of waiting for it to get settings restored from iCloud and get the apps downloaded, I had the iPhone 4S functional and in my hands. There are reviews everywhere for it, and arguably the biggest…