May 22, 2013

Neil Hughes:

Despite growing competition from other tablets, Apple’s iPad still accounts for a whopping 89.28 percent of e-commerce website traffic, and also rakes in more money on a per-user basis than any other platform.

Where the hell are all these Samsung tablets I keep hearing about?

That is very impressive.

He is working on the marketing team under Apple’s global marketing chief Phil Schiller, according to sources.

Michael is one of the good guys. Congrats.

Om Malik:

HTC was the shining star during the early days of Android. Now it is reeling under the pressure of cheap Androids, a dominant Samsung and a management disarray. It’s a damn shame, as the new HTC One is actually a nice device.

I thought it would do better than it has.

Jon Hicks isn’t happy with Adobe’s decision.

14-year-old plays Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”

Wow. Much respect.

Google and Samsung “innovation” continues.

A fellow gets thirsty.

I must admit, I missed this part of the Senate hearings yesterday, but I think Cook brought up some good points.

May 21, 2013

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Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley on the belief that Yahoo bought his Tumblr blog:

In the meantime, whatever I want: mine. You want to talk excitement? That’s excitement. I just Amazon Primed a fucking speedboat.

LOL!

Apple posts Tim Cook’s and Peter Oppenheimer’s Senate opening statements

You can view Tim’s and Peter’s statements as PDFs.

I just love A Pale Horse Named Death. Deep, dark music and lyrics that will take you on a journey like few other bands can. Go buy this. NOW!

The new machine sees Microsoft add a Blu-ray drive and Skype functionality to its console, built in feedback into its gamepad triggers, and upgrades its Kinect camera sensor to 1080p high definition resolution.

Xbox is the one Microsoft product I really like.

Apple is some good company.

Gus Mueller gives us a list of four points when we’ll know that Apple got iCloud right.

Bobby Owsinski takes a look at some of his favorite compressors. I love the ones he chose, especially the Fairchild and the Universal Audio LA series.

Watch Tim Cook’s Senate testimony

Here is Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer.

May 20, 2013

No surprise they’re in Dubai.

Reading this will give you a good idea of what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s going to be messy.

Microsoft Chrome Now Everywhere Parody

Coming soon to Google Glass.

Very sad.

Yahoo has been busy. I like this look better.

Congrats to everyone involved. This is a great look at Tumblr from the inside.

This is along the lines of what I would expect in iOS. Not throwing everything away, but more updating and modernizing the interface.

There have been a number of mixers that utilize iOS devices that I never really liked, but this looks promising. It’s the first one I’ve seen that I’d like to try.

Great that Apple made this public.

Anil Dash gives his perspective of Tumblr as it grew.

Michael Lopp:

The cap on WWDC tickets means it won’t go the way of SXSW – a wildly successful conference that has grown consistently since its inception. I used to go every year until one late night we looked around a huge sea of strangers and decided that we no longer knew this conference. The experience had become diluted. It had become unfamiliar, full of strangers, and unknowable.

There is a lot of truth to that. A lot of people go to WWDC to meet up with old friends — the socializing is just as important as the sessions for many people. Lopp provides some other great insights in the article too.

There is no doubt that a Lennon-owned guitar is worth a lot of money, but wow.