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The Complexity of Mobile Software

Like most folks who work in technology, I get roped into helping non-technical friends and family out with their software woes. Though once in a while this would be a legitimately technical task (e.g., trying to remove spyware…

The Unique Properties of Photos

The Unique Properties of Photos

Another month, another great photos service. Google Photos is the latest service to one-up its competition, and there’s a lot to like about it: both the effectively unlimited storage[1] and the machine-intelligent search play to Google’…

Google and the Currency of Data

Google and the Currency of Data

As usual, the a16z podcast is full of interesting insights and commentary: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy Benedict Evans makes the point, over and over again, that Google has continued to leverage its core…

The Inconvenience of Ergonomics

The Inconvenience of Ergonomics

Put your hands out in front of you. Press your fingers on both hands against each other, and arch your palms back. Now push your fingers towards each other with moderate strength for about 10 seconds. Do your hands feel…

The Modularization of Microsoft

The Modularization of Microsoft

All the interesting news coming out of Microsoft from their Build conference revolves around interoperation. Across desktop and mobile, they’re courting developers with initiatives – Visual Studio in OS X, Android apps running in Windows, cross-compilation of Objective-C…

More Options for Photos in the Cloud

More Options for Photos in the Cloud

Since I last wrote about the many different ways of managing a photo collection, there’s been two pretty good developments that provide even more options. iCloud Photo Library, I think, existed in beta form when I wrote the post,…