Archive for the ‘Technology (General)’ category

Stealing Is Wrong, No Matter What The Gain

April 20, 2010

I, for one, am disappointed in Gizmodo. Not only do I think they did the wrong thing in not returning the iPhone 4G to Apple before reporting on it, but they also ruined Christmas morning for me. First things first. I work hard to teach my kids that stealing is wrong. I hope they have [...]

Apple and the Mainstream Tipping Point

April 3, 2010

Apple doesn’t always win markets and they don’t always invent them, but when Apple enters a market it is almost always the tipping point to mainstream adoption. Proof: The Apple II series was the first main stream computer. They eventually lost ground to the more business-friendly IBM PCs, but it introduced computing to the masses [...]

Lawsuits and the Ebb and Flow of Tech

March 4, 2010

From 1977 to the mid-80s, Apple was the king of technology. Visicalc, Apple IIe’s in every school and the release of the Macintosh were all defining moments of the computer market. Then Microsoft released Windows, Excel and Word. Apple tried to sue and famously lost and the next decade was Microsoft’s as the company road [...]

Web Browsers: Power User Feature

February 12, 2010

If there is any better demonstration for the lack of computer knowledge as the comments on this ReadWrite Web article, I don’t know what is. Here’s the short story: this article shows up high in searches. Users apparently enter Facebook in the address bar of their browser, click on this page, and can’t figure out [...]

Apple is Open… and So Is Android and Windows and…

February 2, 2010

This is ridiculous. Open isn’t what you think it means. Open means anyone can use it and expand upon it and modify it. Apple makes open systems, folks. Last time I checked I can write apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac OS X. I can do the same thing for the web, for Windows, for [...]