Tag Archives: apps

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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