A Look At Mail In Cyberdog – The Talk Show

A Look At Mail In Cyberdog – The Talk Show | Mule Radio Syndicate

Special guest Dan Frommer joins John Gruber, with topics including… the loyalty of new Apple customers;

‘A Look at Mail in Cyberdog‘ | Daring Fireball

iOS 7 Deforestation

iOS 7 Deforestation – The Talk Show | Mule Radio Syndicate

Special guest Marco Arment joins John Gruber to discuss reports of iOS 7’s new system-wide appearance and where Apple might be heading stylistically; Microsoft’s scrapping of the “Hotmail” brand and their generally inscrutable branding as a company; Google and personal privacy, particularly as it relates to Google Glass and Google Now’s location tracking.

‘iOS 7 Deforestation’ | Daring Fireball

The Talk Show: iOS 7 Deforestation | Marco.org

Horace Dediu, Don Melton, John Gruber, and Farshad Nayeri

Horace Dediu, Don Melton, John Gruber, and Farshad Nayeri | Flickr

Horace Dediu, Don Melton, John … | Twitter / asymco

Stockpiling the Nuclear Weapons of Design War

Stockpiling the Nuclear Weapons of Design War – The Talk Show | Mule Radio Syndicate

John Gruber と Om Malik — 聞き応えあり・・・

Special guest Om Malik joins John Gruber for a discussion about Facebook Home, and the potential for Facebook to eventually make their own mobile OS, Andy Rubin’s ouster as leader of Android, Apple’s challenges with iCloud, and more.

Stockpiling the Nuclear Weapons of Design War | Daring Fireball

Just a Head Fake?

iWatch or iNot? | Om Malik

We have been privately musing that Apple’s iWatch might just be a head fake, a way to throw off the rivals (and even insiders at the company) and send them on a wild goose chase.

More details emerge about scope of Apple smart watch project | GigaOM

Sometimes I just hope Apple’s … | Twitter / gassee

Just a Head Fake? | Daring Fireball

目くらまし | maclalala2

Ceding the Crown

Ceding the Crown | Daring Fireball

But that’s how news reporters increasingly are treating the state of the industry. The desire for the “Oh, how the mighty Apple has fallen” narrative is so strong that the narrative is simply being stated as fact, evidence to the contrary be damned. It’s reported as true simply because they want it to be true. They’re declaring “The King is dead; long live the King” not because the king has actually died or abdicated the throne, but because they’re bored with the king and want to write a new coronation story.

‘Ceding the Crown’ | The Loop

Apple’s Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy’s eve | Reuters

The marketing chief’s rare attack on a rival, on the eve of the Galaxy S4′s global premier in New York, underscores the extent of the pressure piled upon a company that once stood the undisputed leader of the smartphone arena, but ceded its crown to Samsung in 2012.

An Unforced Error | Daring Fireball

Apple is Losing The War – Of Words | Monday Note

‘Apple’s Actual Problems’

Apple’s Actual Problems – The Talk Show | Mule Radio Syndicate

‘Apple’s Actual Problems‘ | Daring Fireball

This week’s episode of my podcast, The Talk Show, with special guest Guy English. We talk about the gaping holes in the “Apple is working on a watch” rumors and the actual problems and risks Apple faces during the next few years.

Daring Fireball: Open and Shut

Apple After Steve Jobs: Does a Closed Software Company Need a Genius? | The New Yorker

The old tech adage is that “open beats closed.” In other words, open technological systems, or those that allow interoperability, always beat their closed competitors. This is an article of faith for certain engineers. It’s also the lesson from Windows’ defeat of the Apple Macintosh in the nineteen-nineties, Google’s triumph in the early aughts, and, more broadly, the success of the Internet over its closed rivals (remember AOL?). But is it still true?

Open and Shut | Daring Fireball

Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple’s decade-long success: “Does a Company Like Apple Need a Genius Like Steve Jobs?” Wu’s conclusion: yes, Apple is falling back to earth sans Jobs, and the normalcy of open beating closed will return any moment now. Let’s consider his argument.

The dogmatic assumption that openness correlates to success, evidence to the contrary be damned, overcomplicates the argument. “Wu’s theory is that open should generally do better than closed, unless the closed company is run by a genius.” Take the open/closed stuff out of that premise, and you’re left with something like this: Companies run by geniuses should generally do better than those which are not. That sounds about right.

Daring Fireball: Open and Shut | Marco.org

There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too | TechCrunch

Gruber’s argument can be condensed down to “Companies run by geniuses should generally do better than those which are not,” and I agree.

Except.

The Internet.

That Whole Internet Thing | Daring Fireball

Innovation Through Simplicity

Innovation Through Simplicity | Daring Fireball

The utter simplicity of the iOS home screen is Apple’s innovation. It’s the simplest, most obvious “system” ever designed. It is a false and foolish but widespread misconception that “innovation” goes only in the direction of additional complexity.

How Idiotic People Can Be When It Comes To Innovation | iHKDesigns

The utter simplicity of the iOS home screen is… | ParisLemon

Buy High, Sell Low – The Talk Show

Buy High, Sell Low – The Talk Show | Mule Radio Syndicate

Special guest Marco Arment joins John Gruber to talk about Apple’s quarterly earnings and resulting stock price dive, Marco’s new car podcast, and the original cocktail, the Old-Fashioned.

The Talk Show: Buy High, Sell Low | Marco.org