This Is Tim Cook’s Apple Now
Ben Thompson wrote another very astute article, this time on Tim Cook and Apple: While Jobs’ mission in life was personal computing, and Apple the by-product, Cook’s mission in life is Apple, and iOS 7...
View ArticleDesigned by Apple in California
This is Apple. This is what attracts me to the products they create. Those products aren’t always what I want and often are missing features I find so desirable, but it is hard not to feel affection...
View ArticleApple’s Brush Fire
I wrote this in August 2012: I just spent a few days camping in the middle of no where in central Oregon. … The forests in which we stayed are decades if not centuries old and over that time period the...
View ArticleSoftware, The Art Form
Cory Doctorow as the guest on one of my all-time favorite podcasts, The New Disruptors, said the following: Don’t quit your day job is advice you should keep even after quitting your day job. The odds...
View ArticleAlaska Bound
When I turned 30 my wife and I went to Alaska to celebrate (actually our second trip there as our first was our honeymoon). We had an amazing time and said when she turned 30 three years later we’d go...
View Article10 Thoughts On Converting Apps To iOS 7
While away I gave a lot of thought to iOS 7 and what I should do as a developer. Here are a few thoughts: Upgrading an old app to iOS 7 only is very problematic from a customer’s perspective. If the...
View ArticlepowerOne Calculators for All Android Devices, Kindle Now Available
I’m proud to announce that powerOne calculator are now available for all Android smartphones and tablets, including Kindle Fire. Details and links to purchase are here. I’d like to personally thank...
View ArticleApple and Sustainable Business Models
Ben Thompson wrote a series of great posts on App Store dynamics and, in particular, on sustainability for productivity apps. In the latest post on the topic Ben outlines what he sees succinctly:...
View ArticleMoney and Politics
This might be the most thought-provoking video I’ve ever seen on politics and money. Ugh! Politics, you say? Why are you talking about that here? Well, it is critical. Maybe you don’t like it but it...
View ArticleThe Sacrificial Lamb
In 1997 when I started Infinity Softworks, I actually intended to write a personal money tracking application, the first of a suite of finance applications that would include investment tracking,...
View ArticleTo College or To Start Up, That Will Be The Question
Paul Graham writing on investment trends: When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essentially two options: get a job or go to grad school. Now there’s a third: start your own company. That’s...
View ArticleBeware The Feature
There’s a story that’s been around for a couple of years now about how Drew Houston of Dropbox met with Steve Jobs. This from the Forbes article: In December 2009 Jobs beckoned Houston (pronounced like...
View ArticleMaximum Viable Product
Allen Pike writes: We enthusiasts love maximal products because they inspire us and delight us. As such, we support these highly polished apps. We buy them, we write about them, we celebrate them, and...
View ArticleIf I Were Running Microsoft…
(I do this periodically regarding companies I think are screwing up royally. The last few times RIM has been my target. This time it’s Microsoft.) Microsoft is moving in completely the wrong direction....
View ArticleTarring An Entire Industry With Gimmicks And Tricks
David Smith on the problem with in app purchases: There seems to be a culture developing around designing games and apps that are intended to intentionally mislead and coerce customers into making more...
View ArticleVictory Lap for Ask Patents
Joel Spolsky: The America Invents Act changed the law to allow the public to submit examples of prior art while a patent application is being examined. And that’s why the USPTO asked us to set up Ask...
View ArticleThe App Store Problem Is Not Price
We seem to go through this every few months in the world of App Stores: developers get together and start discussing how the lack of iOS App Store options such as upgrades means that developers can’t...
View ArticleFast Time and the Aging Mind
John Gruber linked to this article from the New York Time on our perception of time as we age: Here’s a possible answer: think about what it’s like when you learn something for the first time — for...
View ArticleI Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Bret Victor, presenting in the present as if he was speaking from the past at the DBX conference, said this: The message of this talk is if you want to be open and receptive, to invent new ways of...
View ArticleThe Big “Mo”
The last seven days have been some of the most productive of my professional career. We had been having a problem with the underlying code for our new product for a long time. The bugs we found were...
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