Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a very interesting trend in the personal technology space. A pretty big shift has occurred – with Apple slowly becoming less reliable, less intuitive, and less interesting (to me) and Google has slowly become better designed, more thoughtful, and better at addressing consumer’s needs. The race between Apple and […]
Continue reading →Google I/O has come and gone, so now it’s time for Apple to have their annual developer conference. I feel like most of the areas for innovation isn’t at the OS level anymore, it’s with services and apps as part of the OS. Unfortunately for Apple that isn’t really their strong suit. With that in […]
Continue reading →Apple Music is slowly being exposed as a bit of a shitshow under the covers. I’ve been fortunate not to have run into many of the issues folks are bringing up, but I definitely feel the pain of a poorly executed user experience, especially on the desktop. The bad news is that a lot of […]
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 →As I move over to my own hosted site again, here’s a post I’ve been working on for a little while. Take a look!
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 →Posted on: January 9th, 2011 by Daniel Welcome! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The more I use the fantastic Rdio service, the less I use iTunes at work on on my iPhone. Rdio has a solid 80 of the music that I own and […]
Continue reading →! July 1st, 2007 30 days with ubuntu. – Part 3 of 4. Click 1 or 2 to see my previous entries. Week Three I don’t have any freelance work this week, so I decided to shut down the iMac and see how I held up. I exported all my Aperture photos (just for the […]
Continue reading →iTunes is now available for you windows users out there too! this means that a huge number of people got access to the iTunes music store today. the program is totally free, and the songs are only .99 cents each. check it out!
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