I Gave Instagram Video Ten Minutes and Deleted Vine
Instagram shipped 15-second video last week and I've been messing with it since. Some quick thoughts on why it already feels like it's winning over Vine, and one filter I will never touch.
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Microsoft Blinked, and Took the Interesting Part With It
Microsoft reversed its Xbox One DRM and always-online policies this week, and everyone's celebrating — but the reversal also quietly killed the one feature that had me interested in the first place.
Microsoft Blinked, and Now My Family Sharing Dream Is Dead Too
Microsoft reversed the Xbox One's DRM and always-online rules this week after weeks of backlash, but the walkback quietly killed the one feature I actually wanted.
That Sony Video Is Still The Best Thing About E3
A week after E3, Sonys deadpan "how to share games" video is still the best thing to come out of the console DRM fight, and Microsofts restrictions still havent budged.
That New Mac Pro Is Gorgeous and I Cant Open It
The new cylindrical Mac Pro looks incredible, but its sealed, unexpandable design has me thinking about why I got into building PCs in the first place.
The New Mac Pro Is a Beautiful Trash Can and Nobody Will Tell Me What It Costs
Everyone's talking about iOS 7, but the new Mac Pro is the weirder story: a gorgeous black cylinder with no expansion slots and, somehow, no announced price.
The Icons Are What Got Me
Two days after Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC, some thoughts on the flat icons everyone's arguing about, Control Center, and that Phil Schiller "can't innovate anymore" line.
iOS 7 and the Great Icon Freakout of 2013
Some thoughts on the iOS 7 redesign from yesterday's WWDC keynote — the flat icons, that ultra-thin font, and how Control Center just made half my jailbreak tweaks pointless.
The Exact Same Denial
Every company named in the PRISM leak reached for the exact same careful denial within hours of each other, and that bugs me more than the actual data collection does.
Well, That Didn't Take Long: The Facebook Phone Is Already Dead
AT&T quietly pulled the HTC First off shelves after weeks of terrible sales, and the whole Facebook Home experiment looks pretty much finished less than two months after launch.
Two Weeks Into Google Play Music All Access
Two and a half weeks into the Google Play Music All Access trial from I/O, and I'm still not sold it beats Spotify, even with the $7.99 early-bird pricing.
The D11 Liveblog Was More Fun Than the News
Notes from following tonight's D11 liveblog as Tim Cook dodged the wearables question again, plus some grumbling about smartwatches and the ongoing Apple TV "hobby" bit.