I realise that it’s hardly news that the iPhone turned out to be a once-in-a-generation/once-in-a-lifetime hit for Apple, but Jason Snell’s chart of a decade of Apple growth really drives home the point. That last chart, in the context of all the ones leading up to it. “Wow!” really is the word. [Via MacSparky]
Author: John
Not at all worrying
Jason Kottke saw a school of juvenile striped eel catfish (Plotosus Lineatus) and thought it evoked a creature from a Miyazaki film: It was only on following the link to the source that I found that those creatures, for all that they’re enchanting to watch, are also venomous. Makes me think that they’d be a… Continue reading Not at all worrying
Bra Theory
Logically, there was no good reason why yet another branch of human endeavour shouldn’t fall to the energy of an entrepreneur prepared to apply modern technology and a Can-Do attitude to the problem. That was the theory, anyway: While tailors have figured out a formula for men’s suits, bra tailoring is a younger technology with… Continue reading Bra Theory
Ask and ye shall receive
Following on from yesterday’s post, Ron Moore says all sorts of things about season 2: “You’re going to see things that happened in real life, but happen faster and in slightly different ways,” Moore promised. “So things like the coming of the personal computer, internet, variations on communications and email and cell phones and all… Continue reading Ask and ye shall receive
For All Mankind season 1
So, For All Mankind closed with a slightly loner-than-usual season finale that perhaps signalled that when next we see these characters they might have moved beyond the Apollo era. Be sure to stick around for the post-credit scene for the first season finale. I really hope that signals another jump forward in the timeline, because… Continue reading For All Mankind season 1
Snowbrawl
I completely understand that modern smartphones deliver ridiculously high-quality video recordings and that when you put them in the hands of a professional they can produce impressive results like Snowbrawl… … but can you entirely blame me if I sit here with the thought “Dammit, those phones are expensive: be careful with them!” running through… Continue reading Snowbrawl
The return of The Program
Just over a year on from my previous post about it, The Program Audio Series podcast returns for a full first season: The Program is a historical podcast set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on… Continue reading The return of The Program
For All Mankind
Well, I’ve dipped a toe into Apple’s vision of the future of TV by watching the first two episodes of For All Mankind, and I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far: [A…] captivating “what if” take on history from Golden Globe nominee and Emmy Award winner, Ronald D. Moore. Told through the lives of astronauts,… Continue reading For All Mankind
Paper phone?
I’m torn between thinking that the Paper Phone is a neat little idea and the proposition that as long as your personal data is in the Cloud then the trick is to arrange things so that you have access to it wherever you are via whatever devices are at hand so you don’t need to… Continue reading Paper phone?
C3-P0…
Aand it’s threads like this that remind me why I like MetaFilter so much. Lots of reasoned back-and-forth on the respective merits of J J Abrams and Rian Johnson’s contributions to the franchise, interspersed with outbreaks of pure fanboyish affection like this: A-Wing pilot? Maybe a mix of Prius hyper-milers and vape-bros who tweak their… Continue reading C3-P0…