Watts Martin: Look. Apple got market share by doing stuff that nobody else in the phone market was doing. There were a lot of similar (but not identical) things that other companies did in bits and pieces, but there simply wasn’t anything else like the iPhone before the iPhone.
Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on a world outside our planet Earth, passed away today. Let that sink in a little bit. The first human to ever leave Earth and stand on another body. For all of humanity prior to the late nineteenth century, every person that
Aaron Pressman points out (http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=2003) that many third-party applications don’t handle text rendering very well on the retina MacBook Pro, and then concludes: So, okay, the MacBook Pro with Retina display — It’s a not-ready-for-primetime-player of a Mac, a
If I was starting TightWind today, I’d start it on Squarespace. It’s beautiful, simple, and powerful. If you’re looking to get started doing your own writing, give Squarespace a look. Design a visually rich website with magazine-quality layouts that scales to any screen size, –all without
Watts Martin: If we think Twitter the service has long-term value as a fundamental Internet service—and I do—then Twitter the company needs to be disrupted. That’s not going to happen by building a clone with a more liberal software license or a better business model. It’
Square announced Thursday that merchants now have the option to forego transaction fees: On Thursday, Square, the pioneer in mobile point of sale systems, announced a new pricing model that gives merchants the option to pay a monthly fee of $275 instead of the current 2.75% fee on every
From Ben Hopper’s Ben Hopper’s excellent piece on “grinders,” (http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/8/3177438/cyborg-america-biohackers-grinders-body-hackers) or people interested in extending their body’s senses and capabilities through technology: The boys from Grindhouse Wetwares both sucked down Parliament menthols the whole
Marcelo Somers: Our job as independent writers isn’t to be first or even to get the most pageviews. It’s to answer the question of “so what?”. Taken as a whole, our sites should tell a unique story that no one else can, with storylines that develop over time
Jason Brennan argues that President Obama’s reasoning for why people should pay higher taxes is specious: Suppose I were to buy a loaf of bread. If I trace the history of that bread, Leonard Read “I, Pencil”-style, I’ll find that in producing the bread, a wide range
Within an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg (http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg) addressing how Facebook attempted to intimidate his company, Dalton Caldwell wrote this: I believe that future social platforms will behave more like infrastructure, and less like media companies (http://daltoncaldwell.com/critical-mass-vs-network-effects). I
Due to Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung, a number of photos of iPhone and iPad prototypes have been released. On Sunday, Ina Fried posted even more sketches and images of prototype devices. If you haven’t seen them, they’re absolutely worth looking at. There’s a lot to learn
Harvard’s Eric Mazur has been exploring active learning for two decades: Reviewing the test of conceptual understanding, Mazur twice tried to explain one of its questions to the class, but the students remained obstinately confused. “Then I did something I had never done in my teaching career,” he recalls.