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iPhone projected to gain market share over next 4 years, but remain in 2nd place

by Mike Wehner (Dec 4th, 2012)

A lot of things can change in just a year in the world of mobile communications, so predicting where the major smartphone platforms will be four years down the road is tricky. Nevertheless, BGR reports that the International Data Corporation has made its official predictions for how smartphone ...

Apple's Newsstand generates big profits for publisher Future

by Mike Schramm (Sep 28th, 2012)

Magazine publishing company Future has had some closures lately, as its traditional magazine business isn't doing so well. But it turns out the iPad publishing business is rocketing right up: The company reports that Apple's Newsstand app has earned it over $8 million in the last year since the ...

Former Apple interface expert rants on Microsoft's "Vision of the Future" video

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 10th, 2011)

A few weeks ago Microsoft came out with a future of productivity video proposing a very touchscreen-based future for us humans. A former human-computer interface inventor for Apple, Brett Victor, has picked apart this video in a beautifully designed "rant" on his site, essentially taking ...

MacTech 2011: What keeps Aaron Hillegass up at night

by Mike Schramm (Nov 4th, 2011)

Big Nerd Ranch founder Aaron Hillegass took the stage at this week's MacTech Conference 2011, and his talk was labeled, simply, "Going Mobile." That's a big topic, so after going through a few reasons why business and individuals might be for and against making mobile apps (all pretty standard ...

Docks, transformers, computing cores and taking it all with you

by Richard Gaywood (May 5th, 2011)

Back in the mists of history -- probably the late '90s or early '00s -- I remember reading a blog post. I'm afraid I have been unable to find it again, so you'll have to take my reminiscing on faith (but please leave a comment if you know what I'm talking about). This post dissected and ...

Smule's Dr. Ge Wang on what's next for the company and the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2011)

Smule is one of the oldest names on the App Store. Ocarina was one of the App Store's first big successes, and they've continued to make music and social-based apps like their most recent app, Magic Fiddle for the iPad. Dr. Ge Wang is not only the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the ...

Happy 10th birthday to Mac OS X Hints

by Mike Schramm (Nov 5th, 2010)

Because we veteran Mac sites have to stick together, we're sending congratulations out to the good folks over at Mac OS X Hints, who yesterday turned the ripe old age (in blogging years, anyway) of ten years old. The site, created by Rob Griffiths and now run by Macworld, continues to be a terrific ...

In defense of Dan: Why Lyons has a strong point about the Mac

by Erica Sadun (Jun 10th, 2010)

Chris Rawson and I like to tag-team, and this time I pulled the counterpoint to his "Mac ain't dead" point. I'm going to enter into this conversation delicately because, like Dan Lyons, I don't think the Mac is dead. Yes, you read that correctly, I agree with Lyons when he writes, "To be sure, ...

Macworld 2010: Chatting with Phil Libin of Evernote

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2010)

There are some big fans of Evernote on the TUAW staff -- we've talked quite a bit about the app that promises to store important clips and notes from anywhere, and make them accessible at any time. But even if you haven't heard of the app before, the interview with CEO Phil Libin is definitely ...

Is Apple behind the development of Intel's Light Peak?

by Michael Rose (Sep 26th, 2009)

If the relationship between Apple and Mac CPU provider Intel was any closer, the two companies might have to start labeling their record collections and discussing whether to keep the wagon wheel table. In an intriguing technology demonstration last week, it was pointed out that the in-development ...

Is the future of Mac...the iPhone?

by Erica Sadun (Sep 15th, 2009)

I was chatting with my TUAW colleagues this morning about Mac versus iPhone programming. And as per usual with these conversations, we veered in the direction of unfettered speculation. It's an occupational hazard. As someone who regularly develops on both platforms, I declared that the iPhone ...

Nearest Tube's augmented reality on the iPhone 3GS

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2009)

This (extremely loud, be careful) video has been making the rounds lately -- it's a demo of a new app called Nearest Tube that isn't quite in the App Store yet, but uses both your location information along with the iPhone's compass and video camera to show you an augmented reality picture of where ...

TUAW interviews OpenFeint's Peter Relan, Net Jacobsson, and Jason Citron

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2009)

Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron are the folks with their names on Aurora Feint, but as Danielle told us in an interview a while ago, Peter Relan is the real mastermind behind the growing Feint empire. Not only did he put the two together in an idea lab, but he's one of the driving forces behind ...

Apple turning Windows into the new Classic?

by David Chartier (Apr 12th, 2006)

John Gruber has posted an interesting analysis of Apple's treatment of Windows in light of Boot Camp and the rampant speculation as to the possibility of Windows virtualization built into Mac OS X 10.5, due out this fall. While many publications are cranking out guesses (regardless of their ...