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The App Store: Good Deeds, Poor Communication

April 21, 2013 – 6:29 pm

Tweet  Apple does the right thing when striving to keep its App Store free from promotional trickery – but fails to shed light on the process and, as a result, damages its reputation. Earlier this month, the Apple App Store removed the popular AppGratis application from its shelves. Then, last week, the App Store censors [...]

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Growing Forces in Mobile

March 3, 2013 – 8:42 pm

Tweet  As seen last week in Barcelona, the mobile industry is red hot. The media sector will have to work harder to capture its share of that growth. The 2013 edition of the Mobile World Congress held last week in Barcelona was as large as the biggest auto-show in the world: 1500 exhibitors and a [...]

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Google’s Red Guide to the Android App Store

March 3, 2013 – 8:42 pm

Tweet  As they approach the one million apps mark, smartphone and tablet app stores leave users stranded in thick, uncharted forests. What are Google and Apple waiting? Last week, Google made the following announcement: Mountain View, February 24th, 2013 — As part of an industry that owes so much to Steve Jobs, we remember him [...]

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Apps Features: Social vs. “Related”

June 3, 2012 – 11:50 pm

TweetMobile application design is hard. For websites, we have well-established graphic rules. For PC screens, the tolerance for interface mishaps is fairly broad. Mobile apps are the  opposite: space is much scarcer, every pixel counts. Try shrinking a tablet app screen down an to a smartphone size: homothecy (linear reduction) rarely works. This is the [...]

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Twitter, Facebook and Apps Scams

February 12, 2012 – 8:32 pm

TweetHere is the latest Twitter scam I’ve heard this week. Consider two fictitious media, the Gazette and the Tribune operating on the same market, targeting the same demographics, competing fort the same online eyeballs (and the brains behind those). Our two online papers rely on four key traffic drivers: Their own editorial efforts, aimed at [...]

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What I want for my Mac

February 27, 2011 – 6:39 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée I was a happy man. After twelve years of Windows use at work — the usual Outlook excuse — I was about to be saved by Vista. On January 30th 2007, 8:00 am, the doors opened at Fry’s in Palo Alto. I showed up early to claim my prize, a 17” HP [...]

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Bloggers, publishers and the Apple lockdown

February 20, 2011 – 2:56 pm

TweetBloggers like simplicity. They view themselves as computer industry geniuses, as the embodiment of a fantasied future, vectors for all forms of intellectual life, culture, news, entertainment… Bloggers believe in a world where traditional publishing will soon meet a well-deserved death. Last week, this Manichaean worldview reached a paroxysm: many self-proclaimed digital pundits were celebrating [...]

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What future for the Macintosh?

February 13, 2011 – 6:54 pm

TweetWith Apple’s smartphones and tablets making so much money and taking up so much media bandwidth, one has to wonder: Is there a future for the Macintosh? We’ll first take a look at broad trend numbers and try not to molest them too much. As we saw last week, they’ll confess to anything when under [...]

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Mac App Store: Soon But Controversial

December 5, 2010 – 2:07 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée This year, three wishes were on top of my list: A smaller, lighter MacBook, an app store for the Mac, and a curated iOS app store. I got two out of three. The 11” MacBook Air works quite well when the passenger in front of me fully reclines his seat; and Apple, [...]

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A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container

August 29, 2010 – 4:15 pm

TweetWe now live in an apps world. “The web is dead” shouts Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor-in-chief. To make his point, he teamed up with Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair writer. According his latest theory, the internet is taken over by mobile applications, and the web as we know it, will be soon dead. Wired produces [...]

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