TechpadinTech News The 6s Line, and the Same Old 16GB Notes from iPhone 6s launch weekend: 3D Touch is better than expected, Live Photos is a neat trick, and Apple is still, unbelievably, shipping 16GB as the base storage tier. September 28, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Line I Didn't Stand In The iPhone 6s launched Friday to the usual lines, but the more interesting tech story this week was the malware that had already been hiding in the App Store for months. September 27, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Somebody Had to Write That Code The VW emissions story keeps getting covered as a car scandal, but the part I cant stop thinking about is that somebody sat down and actually wrote the code. September 23, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News When the Compiler Itself Is the Malware A tampered copy of Xcode circulating on Chinese file-sharing sites got baked into hundreds of App Store apps, including WeChat, and it has me rethinking where I download my dev tools from. September 22, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 9's Low Power Mode Is the Feature I Actually Care About Five days into iOS 9 and the feature that's actually won me over is Low Power Mode, plus a few thoughts on the wild engineering behind the Volkswagen emissions story. September 21, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Someone Had to Actually Write That Defeat Device Code The VW emissions story isn't really a PR scandal, it's a software story: somebody sat down and coded logic specifically to detect a lab test and cheat it. September 20, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The New Google Logo Is Growing On Me, Slowly Google's new logo is finally starting to grow on me, and I put in my iPhone 6s Plus pre-order this week out of pure September habit. September 14, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple's Pencil Problem Apple's new Pencil stylus has a naming problem nobody's talking about, plus some thoughts on the stylus hypocrisy discourse and why the new Apple TV might matter more than the 6s. September 13, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Preorder Morning, and That Weird Livestream Glitch iPhone 6s preorders opened this morning and Apple's site buckled a bit under the load, plus a look back at the oddly funny audio glitch that hit Wednesday's keynote livestream. September 12, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Pencil Steve Jobs Swore We'd Never Need A few days after Apple's keynote, the detail I can't stop chewing on isn't the new iPhone, it's the $99 stylus the company that once mocked styluses just started selling. September 11, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Living With Google's New Logo For a Week Google quietly swapped its serif logo for a flat, animated new look on September 1st, and the abrupt icon changes threw off a week of muscle memory before I even noticed the new dots. September 8, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google's New Logo Made Me Look at Mine Google swapped its serif logo for a new geometric sans-serif wordmark this week, and it sent me spiraling about my own eight-year-old blog header's drop shadow. September 6, 2015·4 min read
