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Breathing New Life Into the iPhone
Matt Buchanan praises Apple’s new operating system, iOS 7: http://nyr.kr/13zqA2J
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo. It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads, and creating it was a difficult but interesting process…
Christoph Niemann illustrates the creation of his new iPhone app, Petting Zoo: http://nyr.kr/Zo7wDY
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Cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh. For more: http://nyr.kr/T20qle
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"I am guilty of all the smartphone sins—in essence, staring at the phone when you should be staring at life… Am I deceiving myself? Because if you are taking a picture of your children, which is to say if you are holding a camera (in the form of a phone) and snapping a picture, then are you, in that moment, looking at them? Or are you anticipating a moment in the future—it is sometimes ten seconds in the future but it could well be ten years—when you will be looking at this very moment?"
— Thomas Beller reflects on how iPhone photos impact our experience: http://nyr.kr/Vu6dEG(Source: newyorker.com)
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Apple Advises Maps Users Not to Go Anywhere→
CUPERTINO (The Borowitz Report) — Apple C.E.O. Tim Cook apologized for the ongoing problems with its Apple Maps app today, recommending that until it is fixed customers “should try not to go anywhere.” Continue Reading.
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Apple Says New iPhone 5 Feature Gives Life Meaning→
CUPERTINO (The Borowitz Report)—Apple rocked the gadget world today with the news that the iPhone 5 includes a new feature that gives shape and purpose to previously empty and meaningless lives: http://nyr.kr/PbSLzg
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Why we should hope Apple loses its case against Samsung→
Nicholas Thompson on Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement, and why the best possible outcome would be for the case to be dismissed: http://nyr.kr/Rzo2Av
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Full magazine app now available for the iPhone! Access this week’s issue for free, then watch Lena Dunham, Jon Hamm, and Alex Karpovsky introduce the app.
(Source: newyorker.com)
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There is a good reason to root for the overdogs-turned-underdogs. One of the banes of the technology world is a lack of competition. Intel has a near monopoly in the processors that power our computers; Microsoft and Apple have a duopoly on operating systems; Google has a near monopoly on search. Facebook has a near monopoly on social networking. One of the strange aspects of Microsoft’s business is that people love the products that lose it money (think XBox) and hate the products that make it money (think Word and Windows). Why? Because it makes money on products with which it has monopolies—products that it doesn’t have to innovate. When Microsoft has to compete, it makes good stuff, as it appears to have done with the Lumia.
For most of us, it’s hard to fathom switching phones. We’re devoted to apps on the iPhone or Android that aren’t available through Microsoft. Tapping on a screen to type now seems as intuitive as kicking a soccer ball across an empty lawn. But the Lumia 900 will be something different, and it has the look of something good. iPhones are technologically marvellous, but they’re also expensive and irritatingly ubiquitous; Android can be confusing. The cell-phone market could use another competitor. It probably won’t be Research in Motion, which appears set on hara-kiri. But Nokia and Microsoft are genuinely trying to recapture the magic of that old N95.
- Nicholas Thompson on Nokia’s new phone, the Lumia 900: http://nyr.kr/HnDzdU -
JR wanted to check in on the camera that was taking the stop-motion photography, so after lunch we walked to the building across the street where it was positioned. While ascending the stairs, we met a real-estate broker who was trying to sell an apartment in the building. It turned out that the apartment belonged to the artist Maria Abramović. The broker invited us in to look at the place, which was sparsely decorated but elegant. (Somehow, a rowing machine in the middle of the living room fit right in.) From Abramović’s window, you could see JR’s piece taking shape:
In this week’s issue, Raffi Khatchadourian profiled street artist JR [subscription required} and took some iPhone pictures of him and his crew installing “Inside Out” in downtown Manhattan. Click through to see more of Raffi’s pictures: http://nyr.kr/vne1g4
