A Week With the Fire Phone (In Someone Else's Hands)
I finally messed around with Amazon's Fire Phone at an AT&T demo counter this week, and the headline gimmicks left me a lot colder than the launch hype suggested.
Twitter's Timeline Views Number Doesn't Mean What You Think
Twitter's stock jumped 30 percent on a new "timeline views" metric nobody bothered to define, and I have some thoughts about vanity numbers, pageview anxiety, and short squeezes.
I Played With the Fire Phone at Lunch and I'm Still Not Buying One
A lunch-break trip to the AT&T store to try Amazon's new Fire Phone left me unimpressed by Dynamic Perspective and unwilling to pay $199 to get locked into it.
An Afternoon With the Fire Phone at the AT&T Store
I went and played with Amazon's new Fire Phone at the AT&T store on my lunch break. Dynamic Perspective is a neat trick that gave me a mild headache, and Firefly is basically a very good "buy this on Amazon" button.
I Went and Looked at the Fire Phone So You Don't Have To
I finally got my hands on Amazon's new Fire Phone at an AT&T store. Dynamic Perspective is a neat trick, Firefly is honest about what the phone is really for, and the price still doesn't make sense.
The Fire Phone Went On Sale Today, and I Still Don't Have AT&T
Amazon's Fire Phone hit AT&T stores today. After tilting one back and forth at a mall kiosk for ten minutes, I'm convinced Dynamic Perspective is a magic trick, not a feature.
Signing Up for the Yosemite Beta (Probably a Mistake)
Apple opened public sign-ups for the OS X Yosemite beta this week, and I already made the questionable call to install it on my only laptop.
The Lumia Funeral Nobody Wanted to Throw
Last week's massive Microsoft layoffs killed the Nokia phone business, but the Lumia 1020 sitting on my desk proves the hardware was never actually the problem.
Kindle Unlimited, One Week In
A first-week look at Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited subscription: what's actually in the catalog, what's missing, and why it's not quite the same deal Prime members already had.
Big Blue and the Fruit Company Are Friends Now
Apple and IBM announced an enterprise partnership this week, which feels bizarre if you remember the 1984 ad. Also: a rough week for Microsoft's Nokia hires.
My Own Cable Company Phone Call
A viral recording of a Comcast cancellation call gone wrong made the rounds this week, and my own call to downgrade my cable plan wasnt much smoother.
Google's New Bug Hunters and My Post-Heartbleed Paranoia
Google quietly announced a full-time team dedicated to hunting zero-day bugs in anyone's software, not just its own. A few thoughts on why that actually matters after the year we've had.