Operation Gadget: Home Automation in the Apple Ecosystem
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The Amazing Extent of Bono’s Injuries in His Central Park Bike Crash
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I read about what happened to Bono in his Central Park bike crash, it makes me think of all of the terrible crashes that happen in pro cycling, and how lucky many cyclists have been to not be catastrophically injured. The headlines I saw in first reports were things like…
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Pittsburgh Penguins Use Small Displays Mounted on Microphones
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last night the National Hockey League paid its respects to the people of Ottawa, which experienced a devstating terrorist attack on Canada’s National War Memorial and its Parliament Building by playing the Canadian National Anthem at all games, which is not normally the protocol. During the playing of O Canada…
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Apple Has Been Willing to Obsolete Its Own Products
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you haven’t read Jean-Louis Gassée’s post called BlackBerry: The Endgame, I’d really recommend reading it. The article talks about the missteps that Research In Motion / BlackBerry Limited took since the introduction of the iPhone that have lead to a spectatular loss in the value of their business. ….…
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Casey Neistat Deserves Thanks for His Film on iPhone 6 Launch Day in NYC
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I talked about the Chinese regulatory delays that created the conditions necessary for a gray market in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices to flourish. I felt like this information added context to Casey Neistat’s film, and was worthy of a full blog post here. Some other prominent bloggers…
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One Person’s Criminal is Another Person’s Street-Level Entrepreneur
Reading Time: 2 minutes Casey Neistat created a 6 1/2 minute film called Black Market Takes Over the iPhone 6 Lines that shows portions of what happened at the Apple Store SoHo and other Apple stores in Manhattan on the day before and the day of the iPhone 6 release. The film focuses on a…
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Why Plugging an iPhone in to Use the “Hey Siri” Feature Makes Sense
Reading Time: < 1 minute Let’s say we are in a room full of iPhones. If “Hey Siri” could be enabled by default without a constraint like having the phone plugged in to power, when one of us said, “Hey Siri,” all of the iOS devices in the room would start listening and responding at…
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iPhone 4s Performance Under iOS 8 is Good
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some of you may know that I am using an iPhone 4s temporarily because I broke my 5s about a week ago. I upgraded the 4s I’m using to iOS 8 this afternoon, and the performance of the 4s feels about the same to me under the new operating system…
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Tim Cook on Privacy
Reading Time: < 1 minute Update: This article was published about 12 hours before Apple published A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy. Here’s Part 2 of Charlie Rose’s interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook: I thought that the most interesting part of the second part of this interview was right…
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Apple Watch is Said to Easily Support Use by Left-Handed People
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the first things that my son Jimmy asked about when he saw the film previewing the Apple Watch was, “Will I be able to use it?” Jimmy is left-handed. My reaction was to say that you can probably turn the face 180 degrees, and swap the top and…