I hate the iPad! I love the iPad! I object to Apple’s sometimes farcical behavior when it comes to App Store policies, rejections, exceptions, etc. But my feelings are extremely mixed. I love the hell out of my iPhone, and I pre-ordered an iPad at 8:30 AM on Friday. I believe Apple has a morsel of magical [...]

  The future of software is on the web. That’s what they keep telling me. I just smile, and say “I don’t think so. There will always be compelling technologies on the desktop.” I believe this, but I admit it carries an odor of blind loyalty to my comfort zone. People who argue the other [...]

The folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog were kind enough to invite me to write a guest post about my experience at the recent Apple iPhone Tech Talks in New York City: Inside view of the iPhone Tech Talks from Daniel Jalkut Thanks to Mike Rose for approaching me about writing this up!

The latest ridiculous App Store power-play to make it into the public limelight is Apple’s alleged censoring of Ninjawords, an iPhone interface to a community-edited dictionary called Wiktionary. Before being approved, even as a 17+ rated title, the app’s developers were asked to remove specific words from the dictionary’s index. (Edit 8/6/2009: Since I wrote [...]