Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Twitter Transition

Maybe Twitter’s unfixable. Maybe it’s a fad like MySpace. Something gee-whiz, brand new, that is succeeded by a platform with more functionality. Twitter told us we want instant news. But it never turned into a comprehensible service. It’s the internet at its worst. A small enterprise where you communicate amongst your circle, with a bit […]

Apple Music

It’s toast. Its success was based upon eliminating free. But that positively non-techie entity known as the government put the kibosh on that. Now the labels and Apple are too scared to enact their plan of eliminating freemium. So while the techies leap ahead, creating solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had, those […]

WWDC

BILL HADER Steve Jobs brings us “1984” and Tim Cook delivers this? The intro was overlong and unfunny. Hollywood has no reason to fear Silicon Valley. And just because someone is famous, that does not mean we care. Come on, Bill Hader? Why does he get the slot, everyone but the press agrees that SNL […]

More Apple Watch

I’m thinking about returning it. 1. IT’S A LOUSY WATCH I’m addicted to time, I want to know what it is, and the Apple Watch performs this function very poorly. In that its face is not always on. But I could live with that if it came up when it was supposed to, every time […]