There’s something to be said about owning a product’s vision and quality from the very inception to its launch. There are many stages of product development, particularly those that involve hardware, and one thing that seems to be a glaring oversight that has become a slight trend is the integration of hardware and software. In a nutshell of a nutshell you can simply think of…
Welcome to the first part in a potentially infinite series that I am calling: “Keep Calm And… Are You Kidding Me?”. Join me on a journey through some of the biggest gripes that exist within technology, the human race, or both. On any given day I have a decent amount of items on my work calendar between meetings, daily stand-ups, interviews, one-on-ones, and more. Viewing…
Not much to report on this except for a few key points that I don’t see anyone mentioning: Amazon Fire TV has only 8gb of storage. This fact alone is going to prevent it from being any kind of serious console competitor. And for the “but it’s a streaming device first, Amazon’s not trying to be a serious console competitor!” response, I say, then why…
Google last week unveiled Android Wear. Along with this, Motorola teased their Moto 360 smartwatch. CES 2014 was filled with wearable tech, most notably a plethora of smartwatches. This landscape is all too eerily similar to “smartphones” circa 2006: Now I’m not going to speculate that Apple has the magic answer for this mess of a landscape, but the feature set of these…
I was skeptical when Apple introduced the 4-inch screen, but quickly became a believer when the device featured a screen larger only in one dimension while still maintaining a device body that was only marginally larger than it’s predecessor. Apple even debuted a new advertisement that touted that your thumb goes from “here to here” which was the span of the screen. I, for one,…
I must say, aesthetically, iOS 7 has grown on me. Installing very buggy developer builds that featured a home screen of clashing iOS 6 and iOS 7 style icons was very jarring, but now that nearly all developers have provided proper updates that fit in with the new polish of iOS 7 there is a lot less to complain about in terms of visual design….
Let me just start by saying that I will reserve my official judgement of iOS 7 as whole until the public release later this year. And that the opinions expressed here are solely based on developer preview #1 released shortly after Apple’s WWDC keynote. With that said, what a piece of garbage. I can go into detail about the visual design, how iOS has lost…
Surely, everyone in the internet industry has heard of it by now: Responsive Web Design. It has pros and cons and there is certainly a debate to be had about Responsive Web Design itself. But larger than that, there is a philosophy behind Responsive Design that cannot be argued. Users are accessing websites and content from different devices than they used to. But not only…
I’ve been a Gmail user since you needed an invite to get in. The basic workflow that I had always used was pretty simple: Message comes into the Inbox, read it, and if necessary, reply to it. Over time, I would tend to have e-mails in which I would want to keep separated and act on them later, so I would just mark those as…
The mobile operating system landscape has changed so much within the last 5 years. This is due largely in part to the rise of the smartphone, the release of the iPhone, and in the latter part Android’s maturation. But mobile apps within those operating systems have experienced a monumental shift as well. Think about the phone that you were using circa 2004. Then think about…