Posts by Allen Cheung
Apple Pay and the Complexity of Payments
For the past couple of years, "payments" has been a frequent area targeted for innovation, something that tech companies and startups boast about disrupting but rarely back up with actual results. It has stubbornly refused to evolve from…
Virtually Collectable Card Bits
The story goes, I was tired and slightly bored during a recent business trip, and ended up downloading Blizzard's free card game Hearthstone from my hotel room. A few hundred games later, I can start to appreciate the…
The Great App Cheapening
During a fairly lonely drive to a friend's gathering up in Tahoe a few weeks back, I was listening to ATP, and the hosts of the podcast were chatting about the newly announced iPhone 6 Plus. In their…
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim with Mario and Yoshi and…
The Prestige in Writing Code for a Living
This writeup on the software industry's gender bias is maddening and depressing. To summarize, someone commenting on Secret made a horrendous assumption about a woman being "unqualified" to be a software engineer in the context of…
Outsized Credit for Tangential Association
I figured out the reason I find tech punditry – I guess punditry in general – distasteful. I'm writing the first draft of this post in the afterglow of the Apple Watch event, as they announced bigger iPhones and Apple…
