When Apple’s Aperture arrived, it was the first tool especially aimed at photographers with extensive photo management needs. While praised for its vision, photographers were frustrated that support for new cameras took such a long time, seemingly requiring updates to Mac OS itself. In the meantime, Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom offered quick support for […]
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Competition and Responsiveness
March 22nd, 2008 3 Comments
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Your Web Analytics Software Is Junk
May 13th, 2007 2 Comments
Scoble asks What Will Steve Jobs Kill Next?
It’s a good list, if not misleading (the iPhone will have a keyboard equivalent, for instance) but shows how designers should be ruthless in challenging assumptions, and cutting out what isn’t necessary.
Think about web analytics software. We’re overwhelmed by silly reports, useless visualizations, and bizarre multidimensional slice-and-dice […]
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PC World Gets Its Knickers In A Twist
May 11th, 2007 No Comments
Oh brother.
One of the stories I missed while at Emetrics was the flap over at PC World Magazine. In short:
Editor wants to run a 10 things we hate about Apple (followed by a 10 things we love about Apple)
New CEO spikes the article
Editor resigns
Subscribers are pissed
CEO gets moved out, new CEO search underway
Editor in […]
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The Peanut Butter Manifesto
April 12th, 2007 No Comments
Apple delays Leopard in order to ship the iPhone in June. Too many products, not enough engineers.
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Common themes for Mac applications
September 8th, 2005 3 Comments
The Mac community is aghast at some of the cosmetic changes in iTunes 5. Apple in general seems to be encouraging its own developers to do whatever feels good. The resulting interfaces are sometimes pretty slick, and sometimes gruesome.
I’m in the “brushed metal sucks” camp. So at home, I use Sagefire’s Iridium […]
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