Tag Archives: Apple

iPad Irony

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 18, 2010

As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.

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At last – Apple Revises iPhone Developer NDA

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 1, 2008

Link to press release. It’s about time. The dirt was piling up and as the press release says this was causing development strife. My favorite part: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. [...]

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Folks sure love to hate Apple.

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 19, 2007

Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk [...]

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Leopard First Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 30, 2007

Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata. It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, [...]

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Office For Mac – A Dark History

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 6, 2007

More revealing emails are getting pushed around the blogosphere, this time revealing that Microsoft contemplated killing Office for Mac back in 1997, supposedly to hurt Apple. It seems that the Mac community is pushing “I told you so!” and reminding everyone that Microsoft is a dangerous monopoly. Maybe so. However, Daring Fireball quotes Paul Thurrott [...]

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