The first Apple computer I owned was a G4 Mac mini (PowerMac10,1). It was a PowerPC-based 1.42 GHz machine with a 1GB stick of RAM I’d installed with putty knife surgery.

Apple formally announced iOS 6 yesterday at the World Wide Developers Conference. There are an incredible number of new features, including many surprises. Among the biggest surprises has to be that Apple will continue to support the iPhone 3GS.

The $4 Million Complaint Call

I’ve been enjoying a couple of podcasts on the 5by5 network lately. Yesterday’s episode of Build and Analyze was especially good.

[thoughts/IOS] PhoneGap vs. Native: Some Thoughts on Going Native

iOS is currently the platform to develop software for. Last week’s acquisition of Instagram by Facebook is an example of a company that, prior to a couple of weeks ago, had only a single entry point to their platform: their iOS app. The entire user base was pushing thousands of pictures per hour through a single application on a single brand of mobile device. Only very recently did Instagram release an app for Android.

About a year ago, I took a hiatus from writing anything longer than 140 characters in public. I was an infrequent blogger, and my posts had little more in common than the mere fact that I had authored them. I quietly walked away, and eventually shuttered the Wordpress installation at this domain. I started using Twitter more, and found fewer and fewer things to blog about.