I entered a world in which Steve Jobs had already been born, and was 5 years old. He and I had different upbringing, but I suspect that many of our cultural touch-points were similar. We both first started taking note of the world around us when television made the leap from black and white to […]
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A World Now Without Steve Jobs
06Oct11iPad, You Pad, We All Pad…
03Jun10Apple’s iPad I just got back from one of our local Apple Stores and the iPads on display had quite a throng around them. I didn’t check, but suspect that they are probably sold out for today. My visit got me thinking about how to explain why I think the iPad is both so successful (and […]
Eek!
08Nov09For decades there was a religious war regarding what computer users should be doing with their hands when they weren’t typing. No, not that religious war (you cheeky monkey!), the one about the pointing device, which would allow a user to make gestures on the screen, and address parts of a graphic user interface. Before […]
