Greatest Hits
Well, some of these are popular posts. They’re at least the posts that I like the most out of the ones I’ve written so far. These are in reverse chronological order.
- But WE were here FIRST! (On iOS 5’s adoption of features previously in third-party apps)
- Text editor intervention (On waiting for Godot to arrive with TextMate 2, and the myth of the perfect editor)
- Don’t panic, but look a little nervous (On the
consolidated.dbkerfluffle) - Steve Jobs and Wendy’s (On our fixation on equating Jobs with Apple as a whole)
- …For certain values of open (On the half-truth that Adobe Flash is an open standard)
- Who’s afraid of the Verizon iPhone? (On how non-nerds choose mobile phones)
- Geek luddites (On the virtues and vices of the Mac App Store)
- The name’s Lillet. Kina Lillet. (On James Bond’s real martini)
- The Emperor’s New Antenna (On—yes—the iPhone 4’s antenna issues)
- Vermouth (On why it’s worth appreciation)
- Screw Loose (On Cory Doctorow’s histrionic anti-iPad screed)
- Thinking about open (On what the value of “open” is to most consumers)
- Ode to the Model 4D (On the ugliest but best computer in the pre-PC era)
