Small Problems with Big Screens
So smartphones are getting BIGGER. Four and a bit inches is the new de facto standard for top end smartphones and you can just see them getting bigger and bigger. What started as a clandestine...
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Apple Watching
Apple prides itself on the elegance and simplicity of its designs and user interfaces. Most of its products from the last 15 years have defined both the industries they compete in and the chapters on...
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Falling Apples
Apple is DOOMED, DOOMED, I tells you. Or perhaps not, if you have a modicum of sense… But I do think I’ve finally understood the last 18 months of Apple and how a company with such a tremendous level...
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TV and Apple: The case for un-disruption
So, Apple and TV. Let’s see what everyone seems to think will happen… A physical television set A fancy and unknown new control mechanism (mysterious) Apps on AppleTV Apple delivering TV content If...
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An Apple TV Cabinet
Following on from the thought of an Apple TV App (instead of a piece of hardware), I thought I would mock-up a very quick idea of how a news-stand type TV app grouping could work. The whole concept of...
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Iconic
The more I look at those new iOS7 icons, the better they become. They may look “odd” to some (and downright confusing or juvenile to a few of the more superficial commentators), but they are extremely...
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Qualified?
The most annoying thing about the iOS design discussion has been the willingness of intelligent, insightful commentators to say that they are “not designers”. They think their opinion on a design can’t...
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Unbundling Google
I used to quite like Google. I used a lot of their services. But not any more. I spent a large amount of time using all the good googly stuff. Search (obviously), Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive,...
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There’s a lot of talk about big data and how it will help bring in a new dawn of technology that learns and recognizes our needs before we know them ourselves. Isn’t this the truest form of empowerment...
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Playing the Game
Google Play now sits firmly atop the web crown jewels of Google’s search page. It’s fifth in line to the throne, and has been thrust ahead of some of the long-time Google big guns (such as GMail,...
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A TV for the masses?
All this talk of the iPad3 and a new AppleTV got me thinking about the ongoing “Apple making a TV” rumours, and the late Steve Jobs stating that they had “cracked it” when talking about the TV market...
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