Posts tagged with Hardware
Geeking out on Keyboards, Part I
This post on keyboards had been sitting in my drafts folder for a month, but I never got around to finishing it. Here’s part 1, which should motivate me to write part 2. I’ve now spent over a…
Kindle’s Chosen Specialization Against the Generalist Smartphone
The Kindle Paperwhite has no business releasing new hardware in 2015. It’s a stubbornly single-purpose device, one of the remaining few pieces of consumer electronics that hasn’t been completely consumed by the smartphone/tablet wave. I impulsively…
Obsessing over Apple Watch Bands
What is it about Apple products that have people discussing the most mundane details? How much discussion do watch bands – though admittedly expensive – really warrant? The question is at best rhetorical. Apple is an absolute machine when it comes to…
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…
The Cleanliness and Messiness of a Computing Workspace
The design magazine available in Flipboard is a bedtime guilty pleasure. There's something surreal about flipping through the architectural creativity exhibited in many of the living and housing feeds, the condos and homes that are built as showpieces…
Game Consoles and their Bet on Software
It's only a matter of days till the 8th generation of video game consoles launch in the US. Sony and Microsoft are still making the wager that, six years after the modern smartphone has been introduced, a dedicated…
