Tag: religion

Re/Code opens up with an incendiary article to drive traffic

I really don’t want to use the term linkbait and Walt Mossberg in the same sentence, but as the former ‘All Things D’ team open up their site to the public (Re/Code) I’m hard pushed to think of a better term for ‘It’s Not a Church, It’s Just An Apple Store‘: The biggest tech religion is the Church of Apple, with countless blogs defending its every move, regardless of whether it’s a good one. Some carry a sort of permanent sense of suspicion from the old days of the 1980s, when using a Mac was considered weird by many. Apple cultists

The only way to look at Fluid is through a Prism

It’s all very nice everyone getting excited about Fluid, little OS X utility that turns a web app (Facebook, Gmail, Last.FM, Boo.com, and so on) into launchable icons on your desktop… …but didn’t everyone else do this ages ago with the Prism plug-in for Firefox, now marketed as WebRunner? Most of my Asus Netbook’s functionality came from these web-apps-as apps. What’s changed now? Oh yes, the Apple fans can claim it as their own.