Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business. Jon Bon Jovi, via MSNBC reprinting the Sunday Times (paywalled) A popular recent quote from a man who’s seen a thousand cities and rocked them all. I’m not a fan of Bon Jovi’s music, but I can’t really argue with what he’s saying in the [...]
Almost 3 years + 1 month later, the last item on my iPod wishlist can be checked off: iTunes connectivity – it already hooks into the iTunes Music Store via wifi, why not allow it to browse and playback music from shared iTunes libraries on the LAN? I would love to be able to access [...]
First of all, what’s a Froyo? It sounds like a hobbit. Knowing the Android team’s predilection for dessert foods, however, it’s probably some kind of ice cream. Whatevs… [update, official Rogers update available via this thread: http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/message-id/927] Now that Rogers has finally released a Froyo update for the Streak, I think my own upgrade exploits [...]
A couple of years ago when I got my first iPod touch, I wrote up a small wishlist of things I’d like to see it be able to do. That was back in 2008 and I’m happy to report that 3 out of 5 things have been done. Not bad, but the number one thing [...]
I was going to write a little thing about how fun the ngmoco game Topple was, maybe even with an accompanying screen shot, but the App Store is still ridiculously slow here. Instead, I’m going to write just a little bit about monocultures and why they suck. When everything works, you can almost believe that [...]
At the risk of drawing the ire of the Apple Masters, and ridicules from people telling me to move to a real province, has anyone else on the east coast noticed an appalling lack of performance in the Apple iTunes Music Store lately? Searching for iPhone apps, music, and podcasts all sucks right now. Worse, [...]
The recent fiasco about Apple limiting an application on iTunes’ AppStore is well-documented. A great comment from the Twittersphere even hints at the kind of dark times this may be the harbinger of. I’ve babbled about how DRM is bad for consumers and bad for the world before. I think it’s important to keep in [...]
I posted yesterday about some of the features I wished my iPod could do, and some of the things it can now as of the 2.0 software upgrade. There was a huge din of silence surrounding some vagueness about being able to watch video and listen to podcasts on your iPods. To clarify, of course [...]
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