Well, 2010 is almost gone and it is time once again to gear up for some predictions for the next year. But before I do that, here’s a look back on my predictions for 2010 and how I scored with those. In my view, the biggest story of 2010 was Apple and its iPad. It [...]
First day coverage of the iPad at GBM has hit an unfortunate snag. As many of you know, Warner’s mother has been ill these past few months. Well, he just got a call from his sister to head over right away. He, of course, is en route as I write this.
As we march into the holiday season, it’s time again for festivities, gift-buying stress, flu shots, and, of course, the highly prestigious Ink Blot awards. Our very own Warner Crocker is into the fifth year of his Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards. The “Blotties” as I call them (every good award needs [...]
For the last four years, Warner Crocker has been running his very popular Annual Ink Blot Awards over on his personal site, Life on the Wicked Stage. Warner humorously acknowledges, and often satires, just about everyone he knows, reads about, or follows. His insight is so on the money it is scary. Nobody is sacred: [...]
I’m going to issue a rousing second, or amen, or here-here, to Jesus Diaz’s Call For Revolution Against Beta Culture. I am in absolute agreement with Jesus on this. Things have gone a bit too far as we now accept inferior, not quite ready hardware and software as the norm when things are released, knowing [...]
Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are slowly starting to make their way to market. As they do, some are questioning whether the timing is too late, or if there is indeed a place for them to fit. Listening to the recent MobileTech Roundup podcast, the three hosts talked about this and all dismissed the category as [...]
Rob has already penned his thoughts on this. Here are mine. Loren Heiny points to an interview from last week’s PDC with Ray Ozzie where the past tense is everything. Here’s the quote (emphasis is mine): ““Windows 7 is just innately, if you play with it, a great release. I think the doubters will see [...]
My good friend and colleague, Steve Przybylski, needed to take his MacBook Pro in to the Apple Store for a Genuis appointment today and I thought I would tag along for the ride to check out the new MacBooks that were just released. I’m glad I did. Although I’m not in the market for purchasing [...]
Big kudos to my main man Warner Crocker on being re-awarded Microsoft’s MVP for Tablet PC for the 4th straight year. Warner, you give so much to the mobile pc community and this site wouldn’t be what it is without you. Congratulations! Technorati Tags: Warner Crocker,Tablet PC,MVP,Microsoft
Mobile is all about getting the Internet in your pocket these days. It appears for some of the major players who are driving the scene it is all about picking customers pockets as well. Apple has led the charge with its iPhone and now that T-Mobile, Google, and HTC have announced the G1, the first [...]
This weekend’s discussions here at GBM and elsewhere about Steven Sinfosky’s comments in a recent post using the Tablet PC bits as an example of components of Windows that can be turned off have generated quite a bit of passion. In the big picture that is a great thing. Quite a few folks weighed in [...]
Yesterday, Loren Heiny responded to a post by Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky about customizing Windows and the many responses that they have received from users, some of whom think that allowing users to turn features on or off based on how they plan to use their computers. In the post he listed the Tablet PC bits [...]
Microsoft is busy spending $300 million on a new campaign to roll out, refurbish, re-build, revive, renovate, re-constitute, re-invent, re-whatever its image after ceding the battlefield for far too long and allowing Apple and others to shape the story since the launch of Vista. I hate to say it, but the effort seems not only [...]
It is no secret that applications that install themselves or stubs of themselves in the Task Tray create love/hate affairs with most users. If you use an application or service frequently, the convenience of having it there outweighs the overhead and resources it consumes. Most users are skilled at the various methods of removing applications [...]
Of course the answer to the question in the headline of this post is yes. I don’t know if you’ve been following the recent testing going on regarding Apple’s woes with the new, some would say regrettably named, iPhone 3G, but there is a wave of influencers out there pointing their fingers more at the [...]
The closing line in an interesting article on touch and multi-touch from Michael Fitzgerald in The New York Times sums up one way to look at the potential for advances of touch and multi-touch in the future: “A lot of people don’t realize they want it until they use it,” is attributed to Roger L. [...]
Somebody, somewhere in Cupertino is seriously beginning to regret calling the new iPhone the iPhone 3G. Maybe (and I stress ‘maybe’) there is the beginning of some clarity coming with the mysterious issues surrounding 3G reception and Apple’s new iPhone 3G. No surprise that clarity isn’t coming from Apple or AT&T. For a few days [...]
The news that Best Buy is going to be selling iPhones as of September 7 isn’t the point of this post. That news does raise an interesting question though. You can certainly say that the iPhone has already become a sales success so Best Buy isn’t really taking a gamble here at all. But will [...]
The news is full today of the apparent and unsurprising success of Apple’s App Store, raking in over $30 million in a month. That news is also rounded out by some other commentary that wonders just how many of those apps people are really using once they’ve downloaded them, and where the real killer apps [...]
On the one hand the debate about the viability of Tablet PCs has been going on for quite some time. On the other hand one could say that the fact there is a debate almost proves the thesis. Loren Heiny picks up on a recent post from Rob Bushway and has this to say: However, [...]
Passions do get kooky over all things Apple and all things iPhone these days. Turns out we’ve got some further reporting from Jon Gruber of Daring Fireball that reveals info on that black list feature that many (including myself) followed down a trail that said Apple can use this to remove apps remotely. First, the [...]
Apple has had an interesting month since its launch of the new iPhone, the App Store, and MobileMe. MobileMe is an admitted ““work in progress†that costs users $99 a year to participate in. The new iPhone is showing some cracks, (literally and figuratively), while selling like crazy even with inventory problems. But up until now, [...]
In the category of winning hearts and minds Microsoft has released some video of, and information about, its Mojave Experiment, an effort on its part to try and change perceptions about Windows Vista. While saying up front that this isn’t part of the big and expensive marketing effort they are planning, they do provide some [...]
Yesterday was a relatively slow news day in the space we cover until TechCrunch dropped news that they were seeking advice/support/all comers to develop an open source Web Tablet with a hoped for price of $200. Some thought it was a hoax. My buddy Rob doesn’t think they are serious. Some jumped on it as [...]
Hey folks. This is just a quick message to let you know in advance that I won’t be around much between now and July 13 or so. If you follow my real life exploits at all you know I’ve been extremely busy in my day job as Artistic Director at Wayside Theatre this past year. [...]
AT&T has promised that their 3G service will be wider than ever when customers start getting their hands on the new iPhone 3G. That’s great news depending on where you live. According to AT&T’s 3G coverage map, wait a minute, there is no coverage map for 3G coverage. You get to select a state or territory [...]
I can’t say I blame the folks at Gizmodo. They are trying to make sense out of the mobile scene this days what with UMPCs, ULCPCs, mini-notebooks, ultraportables, subnotebooks, and netbooks, all floating around out there and no one really sure which is what when it comes to naming and branding. They offer a primer [...]
This has been an absolutely insane last 5 months for me with a lot happening at the Wayside Theatre where I work. When I say insane, I’m not too far from the literal truth there. In addition thing are, as always, hot and heavy here at GBM as well. Somewhere in there I find time [...]
This week I’ve been lucky enough to test out several different Tablet PCs during rehearsals for our production of Driving Miss Daisy that starts performances at Wayside Theatre today. Tablet PCs, (and UMPCs for that matter), are all about note taking for me. During rehearsals I am constantly taking notes. I’ll be blogging more about [...]
I’ve been running crazy lately with an insane schedule. Thankfully that’s about to end soon. The one thing I don’t need when I’m literally only turning the computer on for a few minutes a day to get some work done is a deluge of CRAPWARE and a bunch of update notices. Last night was a perfect [...]
Mike Elgan writes an interesting piece in Computerworld on the cell phone-PC Connection that, if nothing else, points up just how much of an interesting transition we are in out here in mobile land. His thesis is that PC makers, especially those rushing to join the handheld market, should make cell phones work better with PCs [...]
Rob is still having difficulties downloading the iPhone SDK, probably because the servers are slammed, and yesterday he posted that ““Apple grabbed the UMPC/Mid Market and took it away.†I have to agree with my friend and colleague and even go further. Apple opened a big door with the announcement and shut quite a few [...]
This is certainly disappointing news, but something tells me the story is just starting to get told. Steve Jobs, in a major slap at Adobe, has said that Adobe’s Flash Player just isn’t good enough for the iPhone. Here’s the disappointing part. Apple has said since the hype days that the iPhone delivers the real [...]
This has been a trying several weeks for me and it looks like that is going to continue for a number of weeks to come. We’re in the final throes of our major theatre renovation. I’ve had to step in and take over directing our Education Department’s production of Romeo and Juliet. As if that wasn’t enough, [...]
Yeah, this is a rant and it is probably a bit off topic for our usual coverage here. But I’ll try and make it relevant. AllTel is proudly announcing a new voice mail service called VoiceMail Max. The purpose? It will now allow customers to customize their voicemail greetings with celebrity voices. Here’s my point. [...]
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