How Free Are You When Apple is Counting Your Heartbeats?

Let's take a quick look at the state of freedom and privacy in the mobile computing market, shall we? This is a multi-part post where I'll survey some disconcerting developments in the mobile computing...

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Safari 5.0 Reader

Don't like having to link forward through those multi-part articles on the internet? The new version of Safari will link them together in one glorious add-free document! While this will be good for...

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Steve Jobs and Porn

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom...

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What if?

What if you had bought some Apple stock instead of that computer you're no longer using?I'm forever kicking myself for not impoverishing myself to buy stock back in 2001/2002 when I thought that Apple...

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The iPad and "New World Computing" (Part II)

Part One of this post can be found here. In the last post, I said that iPad, and similar devices, are abstractions over the general computer to make computing fit better with everyday life. When looked...

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The iPad and "New World Computing" (Part I)

Part two of this post can be found here. Now that some time has passed since the announcement of the iPad, we've seen the reaction to it run the gamut from absolute adoration for its newness and shininess...

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Wil Shipley on Apple's Patent Claims against HTC

Here Wil Shipley is commenting on Apple's decision to sue HTC, the cell phone maker who uses Google's operating system, Android for infringement of a number of patents. Some of the back story here is...

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Alex Payne Doesn't Like the iPad

Alex Payne, a developer for Twitter, doesn't like the iPad. It's a view point worth taking seriously. As a computing device, it forbids tinkering, and tinkering is what gave us all the people who created...

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