Michael Rose

Editor

Mike's first Mac (a 128K original) served him well through high school and its successors (a 512KE, SE, SE/30 and IIsi) were loyal stalwarts during editorial jobs at the Carnegie Mellon college newspaper, followed by a 10-year career in editorial technology at Time Inc. titles Entertainment Weekly & LIFE. Since leaving the print publishing world, Mike has helped manage IT and now works as a creative director for MJM Creative Services, an NYC events and face-to-face marketing agency. He has written for TUAW since November 2006. Mike & his family live in Brooklyn, NY .

Michael Rose's Latest Posts

Mike Daisey's "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" is funny, forceful agitprop

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th 2012 9:00PM)

If you're looking for coverage of working conditions at Foxconn and other Apple manufacturing partners, there's plenty to go around. The drumbeat of sharply critical stories continued today with CNN's interview of a Foxconn worker; this follows a scathing New York Times story from late January ...

Microsoft's $21B in quarterly revenue is nice, but it's no iPhone

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th 2012 2:00PM)

When you think Microsoft, you think "big." Especially from the perspective of Apple's long-time customers and loyalists -- those who remember the rough times in the 1990s, when Microsoft's US$150 million investment helped keep the company from fiscal ruin -- the idea of corporate behemoth-ness is ...

Snow Leopard security update revised to fix Rosetta issues

by Michael Rose (Feb 4th 2012 1:30PM)

As noted yesterday, many of the users who updated their OS X 10.6 systems with Apple's most recent security patches found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, and it ...

OS X 10.7.3 causing CUI errors for some, Combo Update recommended

by Michael Rose (Feb 2nd 2012 10:00AM)

It's not a good thing when a simple point release of Apple's desktop OS causes a flurry of error reports with a central theme of "I just installed the 10.7.3 version of Lion and now nothing works." Last night and this morning, threads began popping up on Apple's support forum and elsewhere ...

Siri VC Morgenthaler weighs in on iPhone 4S bandwidth badmouthing (Updated)

by Michael Rose (Jan 30th 2012 12:30PM)

Back in early January, wireless optimization firm Arieso released a report on the bandwidth usage profiles of various smartphones and other devices. It noted a surge in download and upload usage for the iPhone 4S, moving the new phone ahead of the iPhone 4 and various Android devices to take over ...

iPad announcement anniversary: January 27, 2010

by Michael Rose (Jan 27th 2012 11:15PM)

Before two years ago, we didn't yet know much about the hypothetical Apple tablet device, prescient leaks and rumors aside. We didn't know for sure which OS it would run (although we were pretty confident it would be iOS and not Mac OS X). We didn't know what it would cost -- the WSJ hinted at ...

Last week of voting for Dailymotion/Original iPhone Film Festival finalists

by Michael Rose (Jan 17th 2012 8:45PM)

Everyone loves a winner, and when it comes to the top 12 finalists in the Original iPhone Film Festival (OIFF), the decision about who should get the golden trophy comes down to all of you. This year's 12 finalists in the competition (co-hosted by video site Dailymotion) are facing off across ...

Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Textbook case

by Michael Rose (Jan 15th 2012 8:00PM)

It's time again for the TUAW Talkcast! We'll be live on our usual TalkShoe meeting place, podcast fates and bandwidth permitting, starting at 10 pm Eastern time. This week, we're looking ahead to the Apple NYC event focusing on the world of education. Hitting the books could have a whole new ...

China launch of iPhone 4S goes awry as crowds overwhelm Beijing flagship store (Updated)

by Michael Rose (Jan 12th 2012 10:00PM)

The mainland China launch of the iPhone 4S hasn't gone as planned in Beijing, according to reports from Bloomberg, MIC Gadget and other sources. When massive lines of people waiting overnight in sub-freezing temperatures at Apple's flagship Sanlitun store in the capital city began to cause ...

Elgato, LaCie, and OCZ announce Thunderbolt storage options at CES 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th 2012 7:00PM)

As Richard said sharply a few weeks ago, there really hasn't been a rush to plenty when it comes to Thunderbolt storage options from third-party vendors. That's apparently about to change for the better, as a slew of top-tier manufacturers are announcing products at this week's CES ...