Apple brings refinement and under-the-hood changes to Yosemite’s new design. Ars Technica has been publishing the best, more detailed and more complete reviews of OS X since its first version 14 years ago. John Siracusa became a legend in this scenario, and he decided to stop reviewing it last April: There is no single, dramatic …
Month: September 2015
The original Fairphone was really a fair phone, but this second generation model goes even further. This is a phone that defies Project Ara and other modular concepts. Owners can replace the screen, the microphone, the speaker, the camera, and the main circuit board using nothing more complicated than a screwdriver, with all the replacement …
Two reasons why Apple can talk about a new record: The new iPhones were available in China from day one Two weeks for preorders this year instead of the classical one week. That could be good arguments, but comparisons are useless and unfair, as almost anytime one tries to do them. The 13 million of …
Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing quotes Eben Moglen, a long-time Open Source supporter: Proprietary software is an unsafe building material. You can’t inspect it That’s true, and I’d like every company to open source their software, but this is an utopia. In the end more than the difference between proprietary software and Open Source / Free Software goes …
Same old hardware, refreshing news twist. I don’t buy the article at Wired. The author talks us about how ‘articles from these publishers remain distinctly, recognizably theirs’, but I see this not as revolutionary, but mandatory for publishers, who want the experience they give unchanged. I don’t see the real difference with Flipboard -I must …
ArsTechnica’s review of the new Moto 360 confirms what we already new. There’s not much new tech on the new smartwatches. What matters is design, and that defies the real value of this devices. If you want design over functionality, just get a nice watch. You’ll have plenty of options, and battery will last far …
It’s nice to have a round version of the Pebble Time. The first, square version looks to me a little too much like a toy, but this definitely looks different, more serious. The interface is the problem there. Once you look at it, it seems you’re playing a game. That’s not bad in itself, but it’s …
It’s a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand. So we’ve got both leaked images and specs (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P), and the big story here won’t be their performance, or the new …
The reviews are coming. Nilay Patel calls the iPhone 6S Plus the best phone in the market –he’s not alone– , but he adds: “Note that I said the 6S Plus, not the 6S.” The main camera is “not so much intensely better than you’ll notice a difference if you’re just sharing them on Facebook“, …
Apple is accelerating efforts to build its first electric car, designating it internally as a “committed project” and setting a target date for 2019 to finalize the product, people familiar with the matter said. It has happened with other markets before, and it will keep happening. ‘What if Apple entered the X business?‘ That question …