Posts Categorized: Apple

Glass might be inappropriate in some places…

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Eric Schmidt commented on Glass, saying “there are obviously places where Google Glasses are inappropriate.” He was referencing the obvious issue of talking to glass when in a quiet room – say an exam hall, etc. This isn’t a significant comment. But I thought it was interesting that Gruber’s reposte was to comment “Weird and… Read more »

Bono on Jonny Ive

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What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money. Jony is Obi-Wan. His team are Jedi whose nobility depends on the pursuit of greatness over profit, believing the latter will always follow the former, stubbornly passing up near-term good opportunities to pursue great… Read more »

Apple banned Saga #12

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To our customers – In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify. As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation… Read more »

Ron Johnson sacked from JC Penney

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The former Apple retail chief has been ousted from troubled retailer JC Penney. According to TNW… JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson is out, a source familiar with the situation said. Mike Ullman will rejoin the company as CEO. He had two years in the company, which is a short amount of time given how screwed… Read more »

Blink: Google’s fork of WebKit

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Google have decided to fork WebKit (Apple’s open-source web rendering engine) and create Blink in the Chromium project. The reason cited is that WebKit, while powerful, is not used in a multi-threaded architecture akin to Chrome in any other browser so their rate of change in terms of innovation is slowing as a result. So,… Read more »