Atomac

The iPhone, My Mum and the iPad

With the announcement of the iPad Apple stimulated discussion on the future of computer. Some commentators have described the touch screen tablet device as disruptive and I believe that they are quite correct. When I showed my iPhone to my mother, a woman who fears technology, wouldn’t know one end of a computer from the [...]

The Bell is Tolling for Flash

One of the biggest complaints levelled at the iPad is that it lacks support for Adobe’s Flash. Flash is a software platform that allows addition of interactive web content and animation on the web. It is most commonly used to display video on the web and in the use of web applications such as games. Flash [...]

Enter the iPad

In 1997 as he resumed the helm at Apple Steve Jobs told a packed MacWorld audience that “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose.”. Minutes prior to that statement Bill Gates, the Microsoft CEO, had appeared on the big-screen behind Jobs and confirmed Microsoft’s commitment [...]

iPad

Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, made its debut on the 26th ending the months (years?) or speculation that preceded it. For the Apple faithful this device represented a long harboured desire to see the Newton resurrected after its summary execution at the hands of Steve Jobs in 1997. Rumours of a hand-held computing device from [...]

Four things you need to know about Apple.

Mike Elgan writing over at Computer World.

Perhaps I don’t totally agree with all of his observations, but I love the fourth one. This seems to have a great deal of resonance with the profit versus market share theory that Apple applies to its products.

For example, among others John Gruber at Daring Fireball cites a report [...]

Wired Magazine on Vaccination

Wired have an excellent article by Amy Wallace discussing the psuedoscientific nonsense spread by the anti-vaccination lobby and the damage it has done.

Brent Simmons on Vaccines

Great piece on vaccines by Brent Simmons Via Daring Fireball:

I’m still living with the effects of the chicken pox I had in third grade.

There was no vaccine then. Every kid just got it. It swept through school, and nobody tried too hard to prevent the spread, because every kid would get it, and it was [...]

1000 people queue at Microsoft Store for…concert tickets

The OC Register reports that people were queuing to get into a new Microsoft store at an Orange County mall in order to get a show-bag containing free tickets to a concert my a Canadian pop star.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/microsoft-store-viejo-2628335-mission-first

Whatever you might think of Apple fanboys at least they are queuing for the products and the company, not [...]

Windows 7

Last week saw the release of Windows 7. It also saw Microsoft launch its new retail store strategy. Both events were covered widely by the tech media and rightly so since they are both worthy of note, but one really gets the feeling that both were further symptoms of the giant, Microsoft, stumbling further off kilter.

It [...]

Clive James on Scepticism

Aussie expat Clive James on Scepticism. An interesting article…

A conjecture can be dressed up as a dead certainty with enough rhetoric and protected against dissent with enough threatening language, but finally it has to meet the only test of science, which is that any theory must fit the facts, and the facts can’t be altered [...]