Weekend Poll Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Weekend Poll: What apps did you discover via the 50 billionth download contest?

by Erica Sadun (May 17th, 2013)

On Wednesday, Apple sold its 50 billionth iOS app. TUAW was there keeping track of the excitement and monitoring the iTunes store. Many of our colleagues and readers used this contest as an opportunity to stock up on numerous free apps, to test and explore. Were you one of them? What apps did ...

Weekend Poll: What rate, innovation?

by Erica Sadun (Mar 29th, 2013)

Over the past year, things seem to have slowed down at Apple. OS upgrades have spaced out. The iPhone seems to have stabilized to a fairly consistent product -- the 4, 4S, and 5 aren't markedly different, other than a small bump in size. OS X has become more a matter of bug fixes, smoothing and ...

Weekend Poll: Retina MacBook Pro

by Erica Sadun (Mar 23rd, 2013)

The MacBook Pro has always represented the best of business computing. With its powerful processors, superb screen sizes, and now Retina display, it's the belle of Apple's showroom. The MBP with Retina display has had a rougher time of things, however, than the standard-issue debutante. ...

Weekend Poll: Desktop Hygiene

by Erica Sadun (Mar 8th, 2013)

How do you organize your OS X desktop? That topic became a matter of much heat and passion in the TUAW back channels recently. That's my desktop you see up there. It's not particularly pristine but I don't feel it's overly cluttered either. I keep links to all my current project folders on ...

Weekend Poll: What's up for Apple this Spring?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 8th, 2013)

Normally as February and March roll around, our minds start drifting towards iPads and OS X. Until this past year, when Apple seemed to reset its iPad clock in October, we saw new hardware ticking by each Spring. Late Winter is also usually the time we hear the first meows of Apple's newest OS X ...

Weekend poll: Why the long OS upgrade delays?

by Erica Sadun (Jan 25th, 2013)

iOS 6.1. OS X 10.8.3. What do they have in common? They are Apple operating system updates that many expected to debut way earlier than now. So why the delay? Is Apple fixing engineering issues from previous teams? As Craig Federighi (at right) takes control over a joint OS X/iOS team, are new ...