Flappy Bird got pulled from the App Store and Google Play this morning. Notes on a high score of 17, the eBay resale frenzy already underway, and why Dong Nguyen killing his own goldmine is stranger than the game itself.
Flappy Bird has taken over the App Store charts this week, and I have some thoughts (and a personal best of 14) to share.
Flappy Bird has somehow become the #1 free app in the country and I can't get past 6 pipes. A rant about why its brutal, broken-feeling difficulty might be exactly why it's spreading.
A free, no-frills bird game has quietly taken over my office this week, and it says more about how the App Store actually works than any billion-dollar acquisition headline.
Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, a quarter of what it paid. Some thoughts on what that means for my Moto X and Lenovo's very busy acquisition month.
Google just sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion and kept nearly all the patents, and I'm sitting here with a four-month-old Moto X wondering what it actually means for the phone in my pocket.
The Macintosh turns 30 today. Some scattered thoughts on that, plus the story of my own first Mac, which was not exactly love at first boot.
Google just bought Nest for $3.2 billion, and I own one of their thermostats. Some thoughts on what that actually means for the thing quietly logging my life on my hallway wall.
Beats Music launched today and I spent the morning poking at it. Thoughts on the human-curated playlists, the weird "Sentence" onboarding, and why I'm not dropping Spotify for it.
Google bought Nest this week and now owns the thermostat on my wall, and a federal court gutted net neutrality on the same news cycle. Some mixed feelings about both.
Google just bought Nest for $3.2 billion, and I own one of their thermostats — some thoughts on what that actually means once it's bolted to your wall.
A federal appeals court struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules today, and I spent the afternoon trying to explain why that matters to people who just want their Netflix to stop buffering.
