This holiday season, my parents were quite nostalgic for the old country (for us, that would be Hong Kong), having just returned from a month-long trip there. They were missing the food, the useless crap they sell on the streets, and even the television channels. When they got back, they were bugging me about getting...
Mobile apps are far from perfect. In fact, it's remarkable how popular and ubiquitous they are on mobile devices, despite being difficult to discover, closed off (both from each other but also across mobile platforms), and harder to build. That they're now seen as the yardstick to measure the success of...
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 phone users, when http://maps.google.com/ is still available in Mobile Safari and ugly...
App stores are pretty old news now. They're easy repositories for developers to build small, usable - and in many cases, experimental - applications and make a few bucks selling them. It's an awesome platform for indie games, even if success has become increasing lopsided. I've found myself buying...
With the recent updates to apps like Flipboard and Path[1] (not to mention the existing base of well-designed apps on iOS), it's about time iOS developers are breaking away from the standard mobile app UI. They're building own UI widgets and introducing new standards, inspiring (i.e. having others copy)...
This post has been sitting in my Dropbox drafts folder for a few weeks now. I was thinking about how the current software boom is one of the few bright sectors in our current economy, with the web and software automation making jobs obsolete. Of course, Techcrunch beat me to the punch. Twice. Within the...
