April 23, 2013
I swore that I wouldn't write stuff like this. "No, Ian", I said, "skewering the stupid is pointless. You only end up bitter and twisted by maintaining the necessary level of vitriol required." But sometimes... you've just got to do something.
When I learned to be a journalist, we had one ... more
March 7, 2013
Taking pundits apart over woeful coverage of Apple is such a well-trodden path in the world of Mac writers that I’m loathe to take part. John Gruber does it well enough for all of us, and what Gruber doesn’t dispatch with a well-placed piece of sarcasm the semi-mythical <a ... more
February 21, 2013
Dear Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.
You know that I loved you guys. I really did. There’s always been a space underneath my TV for your stuff. From the Sega MegaDrive through to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, I’ve bought pretty much all of them. Heck, I even bought a Sega ... more
January 24, 2013
Apple releases its financial results, which show growth pretty much across the board despite a short quarter and availability issues. It banks another $16 billion or so to bring its cash hoard to close to $140 billion. And it reveals that it’s made a colossal $50 billion profit for ... more
January 10, 2013
This week, I was lucky enough to see a creature so rare I was getting to the point where I thought I’d never see one. Yes, sitting in a cafe there was someone who I thought only really existed in Steve Ballmer’s fevered imagination: a real, live Microsoft Surface ... more
December 27, 2012
The rumours of an Apple smart watch remind me a little of Jack Nicholson’s character in Kubrick’s epic The Shining. Just when you think he’s gone, he reappears, even more crazy.
And crazy is what I think this rumour is. The more you look at it, the more ... more
December 13, 2012
Finally, it’s here: the saviour of iOS 6, the biggest thing to hit the platform since, well, forever. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the one you’ve all been waiting for – it’s Google Maps!
That, of course, ... more
November 29, 2012
Android is winning! No wait, iOS is winning! No wait, Windows Phone is wi... nah, not even Steve Ballmer's mother believes that (although I'd bet that SteveB does).
Here's the truth of the smartphone ... more
November 1, 2012
If you're going to announce a major reshuffle of your executive team, including the allegedly-enforced departure of the man responsible for your most important product line, doing it on a day when your two ... more