Tag: Daring Fireball

Macs and nerds and switchers

"Windows lost a huge chunk of the nerd market. Nerd switchers, in and of themselves, don’t constitute a significant enough number of people to account for anything other than a tiny blip in Apple’s Mac sales. But nerds are the people who recommend computers to friends and families; it seems inarguable that there are an awful lot of nerds recommending Macs today who weren’t five years ago."

I am one of those nerds who tried a Mac in 2005 and bought another in 2006 and so far I have convinced two family members and one friend to purchase a Mac.(Via Daring Fireball.)

Daring Fireball: iPhone First Impressions

The iPhone is here and making history as one of the most hyped product introductions in history.  Gruber gives his opinions on Apple's most innovative product to date.

Daring Fireball: iPhone First Impressions
Overall day one impression: the iPhone is 95 percent amazing, 5 percent maddening. I’m just blown away by how nice it is – very thoughtful UI design and outstanding engineering. It is very fun.

Embrace and extend

Daring Fireball: Apple Computer
Apple TV seems to strike the perfect balance — regular people never have to get their hands dirty with complex nerdery, but those of us who want to easily can.

I can easily say the same about any of Apple's products. The Mac, the iPod, and hopefully the iPhone are all designed to be embraced and extended. Apple products adhere to the UNIX software design philosophy: do one thing and do it well.