It’s clear that Apple paid close attention to the needs of the user when crafting new features for iOS 5. The Notification Center, and the sensible changes in such warning prompts, is clearly logical, and it doesn’t matter that Apple “borrowed” a few ideas from the Android OS. Innovation also means being able to distill […]

When Apple first brought Push Notification to the iOS, there were howls of protest across the user base. Sure it was nice to be notified of, say, a waiting text message, or a chat invitation from AIM, but why must it be so intrusive? You couldn’t do a thing until you clicked on the message […]

When Microsoft announced that you had to do a “clean install” to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, even so-called Microsoft fans complained, and loudly. This meant they’d have to basically backup, erase, and restore their hard drives. Only Windows Vista offered a direct upgrade path, and it wasn’t a pretty picture, although I […]

Now that the key details about Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, not to mention iCloud, are available, you have to start wondering about Apple’s competitors, and how they’ll react. Certainly the presence of Steve Jobs, at least for part of the keynote, seemed a plus, although some analysts couldn’t avoid reminding you that he […]