Posts tagged with Mobile
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 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…
Peak Mobile Gaming
It's been a couple of eventful weeks for mobile gaming, with some notable releases and twists and turns. In order of completely subjective industry importance: * Threes! was released in the App Store. A well-polished, simple but addictive puzzler…
Exemplary Touch Gaming
Gaming on phones and tablets have certainly come a long way from that poker game that Apple released with the first App Store. There is, if not a particularly healthy ecosystem of games, at least a flood of them of…
Apple Maps and an Issue of Trust
Okay, it's been about two months since iOS6 was released with the infamous downgrade from Google Apps to Apple's own mapping app. Formal apologies and internet-wide bashing aside, I never understood the vitriol coming from iOS…
Realizing the Limitations of Responsive Design
Responsive design! The One True Way™, born from the humble media query, to restore principles of DRY for web development while allowing for optimized experiences on today's myriad of devices. And it cures baldness. But for better or…
