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...
Apple Pay
Apple Pay went live yesterday (October 20th). None of my credit cards (Visa and MasterCard) work yet since...
OS X 10.10 Yosemite – Design Changes over Ease Readability
One of the big changes that iOS 7 brought was a change in the user interface by dialing...
Carl Icahn AAPL redux
http://www.shareholderssquaretable.com/sale-apple-shares-at-half-price/ Once again, activist shareholder/investor Carl Icahn, has sent an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook; asking...
Apple sends out media invites for October 16th event
And it’s with the usual terse message; this time with “It’s been way too long.” All “long” related...
T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere gives his unabashed opinion of Bendgate
Relevant comment begins around 20 minutes. But the entire talk is good because he actually speaks past the...
3 years ago on this day…
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
Apple Town Hall event slated for October 16th
http://recode.net/2014/10/03/codered-apple-to-hold-ipad-event-on-october-16/ It’s expected that Apple will unveil the rest of their line up heading into the holiday buying...