iTunes Radio is a revelation to me. Not that I didn’t know what it was going to be like, I mean, intellectually. I’ve used Pandora, after all. But Pandora was annoying, browser-based, finicky, and I never used it very long. When I first tried iTunes Radio yesterday, while trying to write, I picked some of […]
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Edit: So, I ended up watching via Engadget most of the time, and when they had hiccups, I went over to Ars Technica. Good job guys. Hey folks, I am planning on “watching” the Apple announcement (iPhone 5S, 5C, iOS 7, maybe some iPads, ever so maybe a TV-related announcement that might just be new […]
John Gruber of Daring Fireball points to this article at the WSJ: Apple Has an Identity Crisis: Is It a Hardware Company or a Software Firm? Gruber notes that this dichotomy has been true every one of Apple’s 37 years. But I beg to differ. There is no dilemma. This has never been true. Back […]
iTunes Match Airport Wall Wart
Delightful name, no? I would like Apple to build a wall wart1 that connects to my iTunes Match account (nee, my iCloud account) to stream music. It should be very much like an Airport Express, being wall-wartish, and having an audio out option, but it should be purpose built to connect to my music in […]
In Defense of Apple’s Maps
We got iPhones 5 a few weeks ago now, and I have been very pleased with it. The extra screen space is nice (the keyboard doesn’t cover everything up now!) and the speed is especially welcome. But my favorite feature, by far, is the new Maps app. We’ve been living in Kansas City (KS) for […]
How I [watched] WWDC 2012
Inside baseball here for people not interested in Apple, but if you are: WWDC starts in half an hour, and here is how I am going to start out “watching” the coverage. Reminder, Apple hasn’t offered a live video stream of this event for years, and will not do so this year, either. (The liveblogging […]