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.
A weekend lost to Flappy Bird and a half-watched, buffering Sochi opening ceremony, plus a small aside about Facebook turning ten.
Flappy Bird has taken over the App Store charts this week, and I have some thoughts (and a personal best of 14) to share.
Facebook turned 10 and made everyone an unsolicited highlight reel called Look Back, mostly full of burrito photos in my case, plus a few words on the dumb little bird game eating everyone's evenings this week.
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.
Super Bowl XLVIII was a 43-8 blowout, so the second half of my Sunday night turned into Twitter jokes and a losing battle against Flappy Bird.
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.
A rant about the impossible little pixel-bird game everyone at the office is suddenly obsessed with, plus a lunch break spent resetting passwords after Yahoo's account warning email.
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.
Google just paid $3.2 billion for a thermostat company. I'm still turning a dial on my wall by hand, and I'm explaining why I plan to keep doing that.
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.
