Tag: Apple
New Theme
I’ve released the macintoshhowto theme to wordpress for others to use. You can check it out on wordpress.org here.
Apple admits that Pages cannot print in greyscale.
Last month I described a bug in Apple Pages which caused Pages to place hidden color information in greyscale documents. This is fine if you are printing at home but if you take those documents to a commercial printer you will be charged at color copy rates instead of black and white. At our local…
General Magic
I’ve never done a movie review before, but this looks great. It’s the story of some people who left Apple and tried to invent a smartphone… and failed… but paved the way for lots of other technology. Looks very interesting.
Some reflections on Tim Cook’s comments about the Apple ecosystem.
Apple have lost more than their display.
Apple is all out of displays. If you purchase a Mac Mini or a Mac Pro you’ll need to buy a 3rd party monitor to go with it. They no longer make any monitors. It might not sound like a big issue, but this is a failure on all 3 points of the original Apple marketing strategy of 1977. Let…
7 Years of iPhone
Today is 7 years since the iPhone was launched.
Why Apple is Successful
In 1977 when the Apple Computer company was created they put their principles down in a one-page paper called “The Apple Marketing Philosophy”. It had 3 points. Empathy, Focus, Impute.
Some of my favourite Steve Jobs Quotes
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Why I love Apple
Apples fantastic return policy.