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The road to OS Xi: Where iOS and OS X suffer a teleporter accident and merge
Remember The Fly? That's the one where Jeff Goldblum tries to teleport but instead gets his genes all mixed up with a fly."[T]he Telepod computer, confused by the presence of two separate life-forms in the sending pod, merged him with the fly at the molecular-genetic level."Look at Lion/Mountain...
The Problem With Big Data Is That Nobody Understands It [Data]
The concept of Big Data—the practice of acquiring, analyzing and interpreting ridiculously huge data sets—is something much of the technology and business world is extremely excited about. But excited is about as far as it goes because, currently, there just aren't enough practitioner...
The New York Times' horrible article on Apple's design challenges
A week ago, I clicked onto a New York Times article detailing how Apple might lose its design edge, much in the way that Braun – once the world’s darling of design in the 60s and 70s – became less and less of a player in the design world.The article ostensibly appeared to be int...
A Thoughtful Analysis Of The iPad 3 Invitation [Image]
Here at Cult of Mac, we’re anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the iPad 3. In the mean time, we can only speculate. So here’s our analysis of the secret meanings behind Apple’s iPad 3 invitation. Modest expectations, wouldn’t you say? More from Cult of Mac:What Apple̵...
Google's losing bet on hardware manufacturers
Dustin Curtis recently wrote a great post explaining why a lot of the Android phones out on the market today are completely atrocious from a UI perspective. Curtis relays a conversation he had with Rich Miner, one of the founders of Android, and how Google’s intention with Android was to ta...
Gartner: Apple's iPhone Stole The Smartphone Show In Q4, 2011
We've seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, it's not because people are not buying smartphones; it's because they're all buying iPhones.Figures out from Gartner today say that smartphone sales totalled 14...
The problem with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 sales strategy
I don't want to needlessly bash on Microsoft here, but I simply don't get all of the hoopla surrounding Windows Phone 7. Sure, it's a huge upgrade from Windows Mobile, and sure, it offers a unique UI, but overall, it doesn’t grab me. Truthfully, I'm sort of perplexed at the heaps of praise ...
Why Apple shares remain grossly undervalued and have nowhere to go but up
Though Apple's earnings continue to grow at an astronomical pace, the company's share price hasn’t been able to keep up. Sure, shares of Apple have recently been trading in the upper $300/lower $400 range, but its P/E ratio is absurdly low measured against some of the other industry players...
Squatterware continues to plague Android Marketplace
Google and Apple have two diverging philosophies when it comes to their respective app stores. Whereas Google’s Android Market is a free for all with no vetting whatsoever, Apple’s iTunes App Store is carefully vetted to ensure that no malware or otherwise objectionable apps make thei...
When it comes to launching your app, Sunday is tops
If you're a developer, your app is more likely to be successful if you launch it on a Sunday. That's according to a 17-week analysis by mobile analytics firm Mobilewalla. The company looked at the apps released on a daily basis in Apple's App Store and Android's Market from May 16 to September 8t...
