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    The iOS 4 Report: Sometimes it Pays to Start Over

    July 5th, 2010

    I’ve used iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS since Day One of the official release. For the most part, the experience has been essentially as I expected after examining the material from Apple’s hype machine. That is a good thing, although there are some rough edges. Aside from the minor interface quibbles, my biggest problem […]


    Reading the Apple Tea Leaves

    June 28th, 2010

    I read an interesting article from the Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in a recent issue of Macworld that, better than most any other opinion piece, appears to accurately nail Apple’s long range goals. In that article, Gruber pointed out that each Apple hardware or software update appears, at best, to be a minor change from […]


    Waiting for iOS 4.1

    June 24th, 2010

    The large majority of reviews of iOS 4 are quite favorable, which is understandable. Apple clearly worked hard to attempt to fix most of the perceived shortcomings in their mobile platform, particularly such irritants as multitasking. Now it’s perfectly true that the vast majority of iPhone and iPod touch users didn’t suffer all that much […]


    Another Case of Reviewing Products Without Using Them

    June 14th, 2010

    You can bet that the day Apple announced the forthcoming release of iPhone 4 and iOS 4, members of the tech media dissected the fine details in hopes of getting a story, or even a story behind the story. Some actually had a few minutes face time with the new gadget at last week’s WWDC […]