Tag Archives: software

New! New! New! (not yet)

When you let it be itself, every­thing on the Internet belongs to every­thing else. The walls tech peo­ple try to raise, to con­vince investors that there’s dol­lar value there, are fake. They don’t hold any­thing behind them that has any last­ing value. The only things that stand a chance are things that flow. And for that, the walls get in the way.

Whither webOS?

When I switched to webOS from my old iPhone, it felt like I was using the future. The induc­tive charg­ing and reliance on cloud accounts for con­tacts, cal­en­dars, and email per­mit­ted me to be have a truly cord-free phone.

I totally agree with Ian here. I loved using my Palm Pre and webOS was so much fun to inter­act with. The hard­ware was a weak point but over time I fig­ured that would be solved. It’s truly a shame Palm couldn’t make it in the marketplace.

Target The Forward Fringe:

But when Apple announced the Retina MacBook Pro at WWDC, revamp­ing all of my apps and my web site jumped to the top of my list of priorities…

Why? Because HiDPI cus­tomers may be a fringe group, but they are a forward-facing fringe. They rep­re­sent the users of the future, and the more we cater to them now, the more deeply embed­ded our prod­ucts and designs will be in their cul­ture. The future culture.