HP Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff talking about how they didn’t copy Apple:
I think if you look at the new Spectre XT, there are similarities in a way, not due to Apple but due to the way technologies developed. Apple may like to think that they own silver, but they don’t. In no way did HP try to mimic Apple. In life there are a lot of similarities.”
Yeah Stacy, because this looks nothing like a MacBook Air, nothing at all.
We figure this story got skewed because PandoDaily is going through its own troubles, and looking for a target to project its drama onto; Sometimes not wanting to seem weak makes you seem weak.
Ouch. You can also look at this scathing article about PandoDaily.
Alexis Madrigal:
I’m sympathetic to the business concerns of the media industry. I really am. But this myth that slideshows are the path to salvation has got to be put into a rocket and sent hurtling into the sun. People know when your product is cheap; there is no “trick” of the web.
Please make them go away.
Alex Brooks:
As the fifth month of the year continues to progress the time is nearing for Apple to release a flurry of new Macs. Unlike the days of IBM’s PowerPC CPU architecture it’s now relatively easy to pinpoint when and what Macs are going to get refreshed at what point during the year and that is all down to Apple’s use of Intel’s architecture.
Alex has been doing some great work lately.
However, by my reckoning, in the 22 Bond films to date, there have been at least 4662 shots fired at our hero. A static well-aimed shot would almost certainly have proved lethal, but assuming all 4662 were “on the run”, the probability of a single fatal shot is about 5 per cent.
Shutterfly has purchased Kodak Gallery – subscribers have until May 28th to opt out of the transition, which will happen in July.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg upset Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter for not dressing up during a recent meeting.
A California judge tossed out a lawsuit in which the Chinese firm Proview Electronics Co Ltd accused Apple Inc of tricking them into selling the “iPad” name for less than it might have.
The iPad trials were underway since 2011, and the House of Commons administration committee recently recommended the rapid rollout of suitable mobile tablet hardware to all 650 MPs.” And by tablet they meant iPad.
Good move. Let’s hope other governments follow.
Marco Arment on AppleInsider’s report about Apple working on multi-user support on the iPad:
That’s the standard “duplicate bug” response email. It’s a form letter. It means nothing, except that he was not the first person to make that suggestion.
Glenn, Mike, and I marched into Steve’s office to give him the pitch. Pretty much the way I outlined it in the previous paragraph. Steve’s eyes were sparkling through it all. By the time I got to, “and you as FDR,” I had made the sale.
And here is the video he’s talking about.
[Via MacStories]
Abdel Ibrahim:
When it comes to Android, though, my second in-depth experience wasn’t any less jarring than the first. Despite my time in the trenches with ICS on the Galaxy Nexus, HTC has slapped on so much paint with Sense that I often struggled to find my way. And what I recognized I still didn’t like. Granted, I cut my teeth on iOS devices, which pride themselves on simplicity, but I refuse to believe Android couldn’t be more user friendly. For all its options, there’s too much clutter. But if you can look past that or are accustomed to Android, I have little doubt you’d love the HTC One X.
Unfortunate for HTC that a review comes down to how much Android sucks balls.
EZkeys is a revolutionary plugin and stand alone instrument that combines a world-class piano player, songwriting partner, arranger and a meticulously sampled grand piano – all in one package.
Toontrack is taking its experience making one of the best drum plug-ins to piano.
There’s also the usual bickering over whether Samsung makes “copycat products” infringing Apple’s rights or, as the Korean company argues, “innovative, independently developed technologies”.
You kind of get the feeling that Samsung actually believes they’re innovative.
YOU COPY OTHER COMPANIES’ PRODUCTS. THAT’S NOT INNOVATIVE.
Apple posted the specifics of the security fixes in today’s release.
While at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this year, I’ll be reporting on what’s happening with all things Apple, but I’ll also be hosting The Loop’s first ever party. […]
[Via Dan Benjamin]
Apple released the iOS update on Monday that addresses the following:
Plug your device into iTunes and update or use the iPhone’s built-in update mechanism.
It’s never been cheaper (up front, anyway) to buy an Xbox 360.
The editor in chief/publisher of MIT’s Technology Review looks at what has gone wrong with their app strategy – and the answer is “everything.”
Proview, the Chinese firm that says its owns the iPad trademark in China, isn’t settling for an offer Apple made.
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I’ve been using BBEdit for almost 20 years and it has never let me down.
Brian X. Chen at the New York Times:
Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone.Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation’s railroad train services, has been training conductors since November to use the Apple handset as an electronic ticket scanner on a few routes, including from Boston to Portland, Me., and San Jose, Calif., to Sacramento.
Ken Bensinger for the Los Angeles Times But all the miles they and 64 other unlimited AAirpass holders racked up went far beyond what American had expected. As its finances began deteriorating a few years ago, the carrier took a … Continued
Matt Gemmell:
But knee-jerk design decisions are worryingly commonplace, and pose substantially more risk to software users. Familiarity is only one factor, and it’s often a deceptive one. Consider the entire scenario and context, and take the time to truly design your user’s experience.
Great stuff from Matt.
I always think that RIM can’t get any worse, any more stupid than they already are, and then they do something like this. This is the ending of its ridiculous “Wake Up” campaign against Apple.
The Joy of Tech webcomic zeroes in on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.
The source code was supposed to document how Samsung had worked around design or technical elements Apple had patented, including the “overscroll bounce” described in U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381.Instead of producing this evidence, which could be used to help Samsung’s case (but could also be used by Apple to prove additional or continued infringement) the company chose instead to keep Apple and the court waiting.
Sasha Frere-Jones writes about the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch. Read this.
AppleInsider:
Chitika Insights, the research arm of the Chitika ad network, sifted through its database of ad impressions and found that 94.64 percent of all tablet web traffic can be attributed to the iPad.In comparison, the second place Samsung Galaxy Tab only managed 1.22 percent of the market, while the Asus Transformer Prime eked out 1.2 percent.
So much for the competition.