Last week Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian wrote about some interesting IT choices at Clorox. What I find especially interesting is the possibility that various CIOs and IT managers are looking at opening their hardware offerings to more end-user choice, especially in mobile devices. “If you believe demographic studies, the workforce in their 20s and 30s isn’t [...]
With the release of iPad 2 the naysayers have sounded again. Tablet devices are just a fad claims PC World’s Katherine Noyes. What I find most interesting are the reasons she cites for tablets’ fad-dom because they tell more about the reviewer than about tablets. She approaches tablets from an old paradigm, one that fails [...]
Todd Lapin shot a video of his 2.5 year old daughter playing with the iPad for the first time that’s been getting a lot of link love on YouTube (embed below). The video’s very cute and points to easy iPad adoption by iPhone users of all ages. The video doesn’t get into some points of [...]
My first thoughts on the iPad included a lot of concerns about not being able to create on the iPad yet and pointing toward graphical applications as the quickest road to delivering that. iPad specific answers to the creation challenge are appearing. This video for iMockups places a nice face on these answers.
There have been varied reactions to the iPad but those that most interest me are those that go beyond Apple’s marketing message of “the iPad is a new thing that will revolutionize computing” and ask “where will this revolution lead?” An angle I find especially interesting is expressed in Alex Payne’s On the iPad. What [...]
The long awaited Apple tablet is announced. We’ve had the opportunity to “see [their] latest creation.” Time to consider what it all means. Pre-release expectations Talking with friends about the iPad back when we were all still speculating on the name we came across rumors that dashed our early hopes. The tablet would most likely [...]
Apple puts iPhone Nano and Netbook rumors to rest | NetworkWorld.com Community. I find the rumors circulating about a low-feature iPhone and an Apple netbook interesting in that I don’t understand what drives this speculation. It seems completely inconsistent with the brand experience that Apple maintains through the iPhone and Mac product lines. I also [...]
Chris Anderson on freeing technology’s anti-inflationary power. Anderson brings up important points on balancing environmental protection and global costs of living. Are parts of our environmental protection effort creating unnecessary scarcity? Are countries’ economic protections driving prices up artificially? I’d add some questions of my own. Are we pushing for or supporting government policies that [...]
Mark Wubben points out one of the rough edges of the “DHTML bad, DOM Scripting good” direction of a lot of recent talk about popular best practices in JavaScript use. In our zeal to point at how great DOM scripting and unobtrusive JavaScript are, it’s worth remembering that one of the key differences between these [...]
Last spring the music baton meme raged through the web development blog community like a campfire through the Southern California brush. Looking through it, I’m curious whether the meme would stand up without the “I tag/pass to” part of it, so here’s my thinking on memes, an experiment, and my version of the meme. On [...]