Appleinsider:
Less than a year after hitting the market at an exceptionally low $199 price point, Google’s Nexus 7 mini tablet is causing an uproar among early adopters who complain the device is already beginning to fail with frustrating lag and frequent periods of unresponsiveness.
You get what you pay for.
Federico Viticci of Mac Stories:
I don’t care what shades of blue Apple ends up using. Icon design is important, but it can be iterated upon more quickly than frameworks and APIs before an OS’ release. The new structure of iOS 7, its developer APIs, multitasking and background refresh, more reliable iCloud sync, text and animation improvements – these are the core aspects that will define a new generation of apps. When all the mockups and concept videos will be forgotten, what will stay is an iOS update with deep changes that will incentive the creation of brand new categories of apps. And for that, I need to get ready.
Yes, there is a lot more about iOS 7 than the icons and the colors and all the other stuff everyone is focusing on. The fact is that iOS 7 is a beta, it”s not finished, and some features might be added from here to the final release version. All of the backdoor stuff like API’s and frameworks is not discussed because the people working on them for the most part respect NDA’s and that is where the cool stuff is going to come. Can’t wait to get iOS 7.
The Verge’s Vlad Savov:
The slide-up Control Center is a quick settings menu that’s been present in Android skins since at least 2010.
The Macalope’s response:
And, hey! Guess what? Android itself is a copy of an operating system that’s been available from Apple since at least 2007! How about that?!
Classic Macalope.
Tech opinions, Steve Wildstrom:
Sales of PCs as a whole are shrinking and there doesn’t seem to be anything on the horizon that will reverse this trend. But sales of Windows PCs are falling much faster than Macs. For example, in the quarter ended March 30, IDC estimated that worldwide Windows PC shipments dropped 13.9% from the year-ago quarter, which Apple reported its Mac sales were flat. This means that Apple’s market share is growing. And Apple, with its dominance of the high end of the PC market, is continuing to rake in the profits, while makers of Windows PCs are struggling and increasingly contemplating a post-PC world.
And even worst for Microsoft, most manufacturers are thinking Android for their tablets than those working on Windows 8 products.
Source: nerdology
Source: Laughing Squid
History of the Mac
With WWDC just around the corner, I thought this infographic-like look at the history of the Mac was very appropriate.
Looking forward to what Apple will bring to the table this coming Monday.
Macs, Aakash Doshi
It’s evolution, baby.
Cool graphic.
Source: aakashdoshi
iDownloadBlog’s Jim Gresham shared this nice wallpaper for iOS in advance of WWDC 2013. Enjoy!
Really cool work, check it out.
