So I feel a little vindicated by this article on ZDNet telling about a recent study that found Apple Users are not buying the bigger handsets. People on average just don’t have hands that big, to me the normal 6 and 6s are too big and I frequently have to do that double tap thing […]
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Easily forgotten
As a long time Mac user (some 25+ years now) it is sometimes easy to forget just what a charmed existence we have. Recently we purchased a new machine for the household, a wintel laptop made by Hewlett Packard who for marketing reasons I am sure, chose to name the device an “Envy”. On paper […]
Twitchy much
So, once again Apple has had a fantastic quarter, made billions of dollars and is generally quite happy with itself, however the Wall Street sheepies are twitchy again. No only has Apple not released details of how well the Watch is doing and the iPad is not selling like it once was (more on this […]
Big small
Dear Tim. It’s been widely reported that Apple are about to start manufacturing big-ass versions of the iPhone product. This trend of super sizing phones is really naff (not good). On the UK there was an old TV programme staring a guy called Dom Jollie who would take an enormous prop phone into public places […]
Beatsing the drum
Is it just me or did Apple pay over the odds for Beats. So apparently they paid $3B – $2.5B of that for the hardware business and £500m for their streaming music service. If they wanted a streaming music service why not buy Spotify? Who the heck subscribes to Beats? I don’t know anyone who […]
Macs no longer to be Pro
The latest rumour from the internets is that Apple are considering canning the Mac Pro product line, because people are not buying them. Well when they are such a premium product I am not that surprised, however there are many of Apple’s core industries rely on pci-express – Audio, video to name two and for […]
iPhone4S tariff bizarre’ness from O2
Being an O2 iPhone customer I was eager to see what their tariff prices are for the new iPhone4GS The first thing I noticed is that they are offiering a 12 Month contract – obviously ready for the upgrade debacle when the iPhone5 is launched. Secondly they are listing the data as a bolt-on which […]
Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011
After many years of battling illness, Steve Jobs – co founder of Apple, has passed away aged 56 I guess in respect for Steve’s Buddhist beliefs, I should probably say moved on. You could tell that Steve knew he wasn’t long for this life by the way he was getting his affairs in order, in […]
Seeking alternatives – a growing trend among Final Cut users
The FCPX bitching is still going on and an interesting thing is happening, people are thinking about leaving their Macs behind. A number of commentors from around the production sites are saying that the only reason they are using Macs is to get FCP. These are the type of people who use computers as a […]
CoreData at the heart of FCPX
From what I am reading an Apple Technology called CoreData is at the heart of the new Final Cut Pro X software. CoreData is a bit like a monolithic database that stores all the metadata for all your FCPX projects, instead of the data being stored in a project file as Final Cut Pro did. […]