There’s a lot of talk about big data and how it will help bring in a new dawn of technology that learns and recognizes our needs before we know them ourselves. Isn’t this the truest form of empowerment that technology … Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
I used to quite like Google. I used a lot of their services. From Search (obviously), Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Reader (RIP), Picasa, Maps, Earth to YouTube… But not any more.
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The most annoying thing about the iOS design discussion has been the willingness of intelligent, insightful commentators to say that they are “not designers”. They think their opinion on a design can’t be as valid as actual designers in the “design community”
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The more I look at those new iOS7 icons, the better they become. They may look “odd” to some (and downright juvenile to the more superficial commentators), but they are extremely clever and do a number of design “jobs-to-be-done” very well.
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Following on from the thought of an Apple TV App (instead of a piece of hardware), I thought I would mock-up a very quick idea of how a news-stand type TV app grouping could work.
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So, Apple and TV. Let’s see what everyone seems to think will happen… A physical television set, A fancy and unknown new control mechanism, Apps on AppleTV, Apple delivering TV content. I think the answer will be a little different.
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Apple is DOOMED, DOOMED, I tells you. Or perhaps not, if you have a modicum of sense… But I do think I’ve finally understood the last 18 months of Apple and how a company with such a tremendous level of revenue and profits can fall foul of bizarre expectations.
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Apple prides itself on the elegance and simplicity of its designs and user interfaces. Most of its products from the last 15 years have defined both the industries they compete in and the chapters on iconic design in weighty coffee … Continue reading
So smartphones are getting BIGGER. Four and a bit inches is the new de facto standard for top end smartphones and you can just see them getting bigger and bigger. What started as a clandestine operation to make the units big enough … Continue reading
Google Play now sits firmly atop the web crown jewels of Google’s search page. It’s fifth in line to the throne, and has been thrust ahead of some of the long-time Google big guns (such as GMail, YouTube, Docs and Calendar).
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All this talk of the iPad3 and a new AppleTV got me thinking about the ongoing “Apple making a TV” rumours, and the late Steve Jobs stating that they had “cracked it” when talking about the TV market (quoted in … Continue reading
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