This is kind of meta, but I made it to #1 for a few hours on Hacker News today for my post about Apple’s stuff not “just working” these days. Tens and tens of thousands of pageviews later, I’m definitely motivated to write more (and probably think through / edit better).
Continue reading →Marco Arment wrote about Apple losing the ‘functional high ground’ earlier this year, and it was met with tons of discussion – blog posts, podcasts, twitter battles and more. The part that hit me was the final paragraph: I fear that Apple’s leadership doesn’t realize quite how badly and deeply their software flaws have damaged […]
Continue reading →I’ve been going through Archive.org and trying to pull in any half-relevant post from the old danielandrews.com/wtmcgee.com days before I blew things up and started over. If you see anything odd in your feed from years ago, I’m basically copying/pasting the text into new back-dated entries that I’ll eventually set up proper redirects for as […]
Continue reading →If you haven’t been keeping up with this small-scale drama, Nolan Lawson wrote an article about a week ago about how Safari is falling behind other browser vendors. This led to a pretty large outcry from the Apple faithful (which, honestly, I typically consider myself part of) and finally a slight backtrack from the author. […]
Continue reading →On June 30th at around 10am, the switch was flipped on the iOS 8.4 upgrade that contained the new Apple Music app and about an hour later, Beats 1 went live on the new streaming service. Overall, it’s been a fairly smooth launch from what I gather, and I’ve had a chance to kick the […]
Continue reading →Recently, I posted my wish list of what I’d like to see in Apple Music before the WWDC announcement and while I’m really excited overall, I do still have some questions. Here’s a few bulleted thoughts based on what we know right now. Things I’m excited about They nailed the ‘architecture’ question I had. You […]
Continue reading →About 2 weeks ago, my wife handed me a box that contained a 42mm stainless steel Apple Watch w/ a black Sport Band. It was an early Father’s Day / 5 year Anniversary combo gift, but it had showed up about 2 weeks early and she knew there was no way my impulsive self would […]
Continue reading →I’m going to be moving from Tumblr to WordPress. Hang on, be back soon.
Continue reading →In the next few weeks Apple is set to announce a slew of updates to iOS and OS X. Most rumors indicate that we’ll see a lot of small improvements with every corner of the Apple ecosystem, but I’m looking most forward to the impending announcement of the new Apple / Beats product that should […]
Continue reading →Sad but it had to happen. We were too late to the RSS ‘gold rush’ after the Google Reader announcement. I’m still proud of what Michael and I were able to build but there are so many great alternatives that are backed by an infinitely larger userbase than Bulletin’s. I have some ideas rattling around […]
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