I’m sure by now, you’ve read enough about the iPad to think, “oh, come on, not another article about that thing.” Granted, the hype and rumors got completely out of hand. Contrary to the Windows zealots around me, they weren’t all fed by Apple. I can’t blame them too much, though. They don’t know the [...]
Can you tell which is which? I was reading this article by Mark Simonson where he writes a brief history of Helvetica and its Frankenstein-like relative, Arial. It’s, in my opinion, a very interesting read, covering areas like font studios, companies’ different strategies dealing with font licenses, and how a simple desire not to [...]
Well, this ought to give the Microsoft cultists seizures. According to Piper Jaffray’s chief Apple analyst, the Mac’s market share in the consumer space is now at 21% in the US and 10% world-wide. Almost every day, I’m surrounded by people who consider using any non-Microsoft product is heresy. Much to their chagrin, I was [...]
I’ve been doing a fair bit of thinking lately, and perhaps my previous post about Windows users was a bit hasty. You see, Windows does have 90% of the market. That must mean they’re doing something right. There’s no way they would have gotten that market share without being the best platform. Well, the [...]
Well, well, well…. Good ol’ “proprietary” Apple will have the first production browser with a perfect score on the Acid3 test, it seems. Such devotion to supporting open standards is exactly what the market needs. One thing to note is the score of the IE8 beta, which Microsoft is claiming will be standards-compliant. Situation normal [...]
I can’t name names either directly or indirectly, but experiences today have solidified in my mind the fact that Windows also has a monopoly on closed-minded people. They just can’t comprehend an OS that doesn’t behave just like Windows. They can’t open their minds to other ways of doing things. If you sit anything in [...]
I found this nice little nugget suggesting why Apple won’t take over the industry the way Microsoft did. He’s not suggesting that Apple’s success won’t continue or that it won’t continue gaining market share at the expense of Microsoft, but that Apple won’t be the next Microsoft. He makes the excellent point that the [...]
