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Apple Really Screwed Over West Coast Devs Who Wanted To Go To WWDC This Year [Opinion]
For the last few years, each Worldwide Developer’s Conference has sold out in successively less and less time. Three years ago, WWDC sold out in a month. Two years ago, it sold out in a week. Last year, it took twelve hours. Everyone knew WWDC 2012 would sell out even faster than last year...
Feel Ripped Off Trading-In Your Old iPad? Here's Why It's Worth A Second Opinion
Like a lot of people, I greeted the news that Apple was on the verge of scheduling a press conference for the inevitable third-gen model by scouring the web to discover who would pay me the most for my gently used first-generation iPad. After poking around a bit, I selected NextWorth, which had ...
Why Apple Should Look Back, Though Steve Jobs Never Did [Opinion]
Last week, I published an opinion piece proposing that Apple open a corporate museum. It was also published on Forbes.com. The story started trending by Sunday evening. Then somewhat amusingly, it got buried first thing Monday morning by the wall-to-wall coverage of Ashton Kutcher, who’s t...
Why Foursquare Really Killed Creepy Stalking App 'Girls Around Me'
Foursquare doesn't ever want you thinking about not doing this. That's why you definitely should. When we broke the story on Friday about Girls Around Me — an iOS app by Russian-based app developer i-Free that allowed users to stalk women in thee neighborhood without those women’s...
Why Apple Should Have A Public Museum At Its New Campus [Opinion]
I live on the east coast, but I have been to Silicon Valley twice; visiting Apple’s mothership was a must-do for me. Perhaps you feel the same way. It's exciting for us fans, though all you can really do is park, take pictures out in front of the main 1 Infinite Loop building, and the Appl...
Why The New iPad Doesn't Have Siri
Don't expect to see this anytime soon. Before Apple unveiled the new iPad on Wednesday, no one was quite positive what Apple would announce. It seemed pretty sure that the iPad 3 (as it was being called then) would have a Retina Display, but would it have an A5X processor or an A6 processor?...
How the Mac Will Die
Another Apple announcement, another de-emphasis on the Mac brand. It seems that every time Apple opens its corporate pie-hole, the venerable Macintosh brand drops down a notch in importance, and the Mac’s future demise seems more likely. I was on a recent episode of Leo Laporte’s Mac...
Why Apple Dropped "Mac" From OS X Mountain Lion [Opinion]
Apple has included a more subtle, yet very important, change in OS X Mountain Lion that points to the company’s focus moving forward. If you open the “About This Mac” window in the Mountain Lion developer preview, you’ll notice that “Mac” has been dropped for ...
iBooks Author: You Can Sell Your "Work" Elsewhere, Just Not In The Format Created By iBooks Author [Opinion]
There’s been a lot of fuss overnight about what exactly Apple is claiming ownership of in the Terms and Conditions associated with its new iBooks Author application for Mac. The fuss is understandable, because the wording of the license agreement gets a little bit muddy. Here’s the...
Why Apple's iBooks Author Will Pave The Way For A Writing Renaissance
What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, J.K. Rowling, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Stephen King have in common? All six were repeatedly rejected when trying to publish their first famous novel. With the announcement of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author, Apple isn’t just giving the educati...
