Extended Phenotype

Yesterday, we’re told, the crush of fanatical fanboys pre-ordering iPhones brought AT&T’s servers to their knees.  Apple and AT&T pre-sold 600K iPhones, and we’re told they processed 13 million eligibility requests during the day, as people tried over and over to get through.  Random reports surfaced about how the crushing load “crippled” AT&T’s internal network, [...]

This last weekend the first iPads shipped to early adopters in the general public, including me. Like many of us in the technology business, I’ve kept a weather eye on the first impressions of many folks on the web, and friends in the industry. Most of these reactions are the stuff of geek [...]

I’m watching TV almost exclusively from the Internet nowadays, and mostly by subscribing on iTunes and watching in HD from my AppleTV. This works incredibly well, once you have the season downloaded and ready to play.
The downloading process exposes some seriously irritating bugs and/or design flaws in iTunes, however. I live [...]

Spending a few days bedridden with some nasty viral thing is giving me the unusual chance to spend time with my main laptop, but without the pressure to actually accomplish something (that would require lucidity and the ability to focus for more than a couple of minutes). A few minutes ago, I noticed an [...]

It’s been a week since the iPad announcement, and like many in this business, I’ve followed the opinions and punditry. My personal view is that the iPad is going to be a great product for Apple. It will also — and this isn’t quite the same as being a great product — be [...]

Amidst all of the positive and negative opinion pieces and postings which followed Apple’s iPad announcement this week, the impact to software businesses are only starting to become apparent. I think Apple’s announcement that iWork pricing will be $9.99 per app is significant.
It’s game changing not for third-party ISVs already developing for [...]