Today we pour one out for Dark Sky, one of the great mobile apps. When it launched, Dark Sky represented the best of iOS for me in two ways: It did one thing well. Modern iOS apps are little worlds of hierarchy and bespoke navigation structures. In the iPhone’s salad days the best apps transformed your phone, each into a different single-purpose device. For Dark Sky, that thing was telling you if…
With no commute to work it wasn’t my greatest reading year ever, but I managed to work some reading time back into my routine toward the end. Fiction standouts included The Dreamers (warning: it’s pandemic-related. Fortunately I read it in the blissfully ignorant first month of the year, before that theme became our whole lives), The Vanishing Half, and The Dutch House. Also loving Barbara…
From a piece my friend Naveen wrote a while back called Wearables versus there-ables : What if we didn’t have to / weren’t meant to carry our technology with us as we moved around town? What if the technology was actually already in the room when we got there? As he points out, a lot of tools that used to be separate have now converged into one: the phone. You might not buy another camera again,…