What delicious irony. The champion of the little guy has become big brother.
Remember the groundbreaking first Macintosh television commercial, in 1984, with the young woman throwing a hammer into the giant video screen on an evil big brother, smashing it into bits? There’s a role reversal going on.
Apple Computer has taken the establishment role [...]
Interesting juxtaposition: while much of the world worries about where we get real news, and particularly investigative reporting, iPhone users are up in arms about CNN charging less than $2, once, for an iPhone app that includes ads.
Megan Berry posted Do You Get What You Pay For? yesterday on the Huffington Post:
CNN’s new iPhone app [...]
Somebody asked me recently how my background relates to programming computers, and software. That’s hard to explain, given that I majored in Literature as an undergrad, then got an MA in Journalism, then an MBA. None of that says programming.
In my case it was like falling in love. I first used word processing when I was still [...]
by Tim Berry on January 16, 2008
in Web/Tech
Very much better late than never. The iPhone software upgrade released today added a GPS-like location feature to the iPhone’s Google maps implementation, instantly turning a weakness into a real strength. I love it. It isn’t a real GPS. It…