Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. O shaman, O wizard, O golden son of Zeus and mortal woman, you defied the gods, stole fire & gave it to mankind. For this they struck you down. Bastards! “One more thing.” That was your catch phrase. Or was it the one about putting a dent in the universe? […]

My second-day take went up on the Beast this morning. Gist is, they’re selling more iPhone 4 units than ever before, so why change the design when clearly people love it? Tim Bajarin points out that a new design would have meant retooling the entire production line, which would cost a lot of money and […]

My quick take on the Daily Beast. Summing up: It’s a bummer because we all were hoping for more dazzle; but the iPhone 4 is a kick-ass phone and why change the design when it’s selling so well? Siri is amazing. Even more amazing, to me, is that four years after the first iPhone shipped […]

Here’s the one where he finds out his broken iPhone can’t be fixed.

I originally heard that in a review of a Return to Forever concert a couple years ago. But I was reminded of it when I saw the photo above on the Engadget live blog from the Apple event.

That’s where we started out last week, a couple of us at NewsBeast, and it ended up here, with a story called “Broke and Buying Anyway” that touches on the psychology involved in buying and using tech products. We started out talking about smartphones and tablets but from there we looked around and found that […]

That’s the title of the new podcast from the Double D Guys, available here, in which Dave Thackeray and I discuss scary scary Facebook and scary scary Amazon, and I go on a rant about the virtual Panopticon that Mark Zuckerberg is building for us before moving on to discuss my fascinating recent conversation with […]