How the cloud/ecosystem stickiness is tied to your media
Some folks may be wondering how the cloud (web services including storage) acts as the glue that ties...
Microsoft Office for iOS goes Freemium
Microsoft updated it’s suite of mobile iOS applications today by unifying the applications on a single code base...
Microsoft partners with Dropbox
http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/04/office-dropbox-work-together-phones-tablets-web/ This is just an alternative to OneDrive – it’s actually a smart move since there are many...
Samsung Schadenfreude
http://techpinions.com/samsung-schadenfreude-and-the-fall-of-the-church-of-market-share/35451 This piece is so glorious, that there is nothing more that I can add…. it states exactly...
MCX says they are misunderstood
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/11/02/merchant-mobile-pay-consortium-says-it-wont-demand-social-and-drivers-id/18374195/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/mcx-press-conference/ Reactionary damage control and hypocritical double-speak. It’s becoming all too clear this consortium was caught flatfooted...
Sony rolls out PlayStation 4 system software update 2.0…
And unsurprisingly, can’t access PSN, can’t access the PS store, yadda-yadda-yadda. https://twitter.com/AskPlayStation/status/527176580549066753 All I actually wanted to do...
Wal-mart’s spin on why they aren’t supporting Apple Pay
http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-heres-why-we-dont-support-apple-pay-2014-10 This is coming from a company that has to deal with razor thin margins (which as this...
Earth to Merchant Customer Exchange Retailers…
You are out of your minds with CurrentC. Multiple steps to do a transaction (unlock phone, launch the...
Speaking of Amazon – UGLY 3rd quarter 2014 results
http://recode.net/2014/10/24/codered-introducing-the-amazon-misfire/ And after all that (another quarter of misses, larger than expected loss, largest loss in 14 years,...
System 7’s UI > Yosemite’s
System 7.0 (source: guidebookgallery.org) Yosemite (unmodified install) running in a VMware virtual machine Even though it’s very spartan,...
Is Apple’s software quality declining?
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/11/apples-software-quality-decline/ There’s a lot of snippets in there from across the Apple blogsphere with observations that Apple’s software...