Pursuant to my post on iBooks for iPad, here’s a fantastic overview of the serious typographic deficiencies in iBooks on iPad, specifically, and on Apple’s part, generally, over the last decade or so, by Stephen Coles on fontfeed.com: [...]it’s exactly that part of media consumption, reading, that reveals what’s missing on the iPad: good typography. Signs [...]
I thought Blio would be the coming-up-from-behind candidate (maybe it’s because I’ve got a soft spot for Ray “the singularity is coming” Kurzweil), but so far, it’s Kobo. I’d never paid too much attention to Kobo (neé Shortcovers) before, since their ebook downloads insisted on the use of Adobe Digital Editions desktop software for reading [...]
The Kindle on iPad app is an impressive improvement over the previous Kindle app for iPhone (Amazon seems to have updated the Kindle on iPhone app to match features with their iPad version. Good on them). Amazon has a lot riding on the strategy of being everywhere—considering that it’s inevitable that compared to devices like [...]
By all accounts, iBooks is a beautiful app; a slick app, but almost too slick for its own good. In developing its iPad-native apps, Apple seems to have followed a relatively unified design paradigm: where apps have physical counterparts, they’ve designed the app to mimic the look of the physical object they’re intended to replace. [...]
So like a good little fanboy, I spent my early Saturday morning exactly where the people who know me best expected me to be (going by the number of emails and txt messages I’ve received): standing in line at the Apple store in SoHo, waiting to get my hands on an iPad. So I’ve got [...]
I’ve kept my mouth shut about the iPad on here, mostly because I have the good sense to not go off half-cocked and pontificate at length about a product I’ve not been able to play with myself (hurr hurr). The rest of the internet, apparently, has no such misgivings. No camera! No additional carriers beyond [...]
For those not familiar, the five stages of grief are the typical steps one goes through when dealing with a stressful event. Usually it’s applied to grief over the death of a loved one. I argue that it can be applied to the birth of the Apple Tablet. Denial: “Pfft. It’s just an iPhone on [...]
Andy Inhatko has been covering Apple developments since before the company got cool again (and a big thank you to Mista Jobs for pulling us old-school Apple fanboys out of the dark reign of Gil Amelio and John ‘Sugar Water Boy‘ Scully). So it’s inevitable that he chime in with some of his observations regarding [...]
Two announcements to kick off 2010. First, check out the new blog. I’m launching The New Sleekness with other smart, bookish types to fill a hole in publishing punditry: voices from the boots-on-the-ground folks actually working directly in that sweet spot of publishing and technology. I hope you’ll add us to your RSS Reader. And [...]