Pixel
Envy
Written by Nick Heer.
June 12, 2017:
Appholes
May 30, 2017:
The Boutique Smartphone
May 24, 2017:
Destroying Internet Freedom
May 3, 2017:
Trust in Apple’s Services
April 13, 2017:
How to Make a Backup of a FFFFOUND Account
April 13, 2017:
Lies, Damned Lies, and Numeric Ratings
March 28, 2017:
The Facebook Model of Innovation
February 20, 2017:
A History of Uber Since January 2014, in Excerpts
February 9, 2017:
Sufficiently Great
January 18, 2017:
Requiem for the Thunderbolt Display
January 3, 2017:
It’s About Trust
December 20, 2016:
The Mac
November 15, 2016:
Onboard Flash Storage vs. ‘Onboard Flash Storage’
November 15, 2016:
Housekeeping
November 9, 2016:
Privacy and Data Collection During a Trump Presidency
October 18, 2016:
Good Design, Inside and Out
October 7, 2016:
Control
October 5, 2016:
iCloud Storage Pricing
September 20, 2016:
Novelty and Legacy
September 18, 2016:
Pulitzers, Pardons, and the Post
September 13, 2016:
iOS 10: The Pixel Envy Review
September 7, 2016:
Thoughts on Today’s Apple Event
August 21, 2016:
Blonde Bombshell
August 14, 2016:
Breadth and Depth
August 9, 2016:
Diversity of Tech Companies by the Numbers: 2016 Edition
July 31, 2016:
Intuition and iOS
July 20, 2016:
Limiting Harassment, Not Speech
July 5, 2016:
The Danger of Dependencies
June 21, 2016:
The Sound of Lightning
June 8, 2016:
One Week With the Microsoft Lumia 650
June 2, 2016:
Christmas in June
May 10, 2016:
Criteo and AdRoll, the Web’s Cookie Monsters
May 6, 2016:
What’s the Yams?
May 5, 2016:
Ten Months of Apple Music
April 21, 2016:
Ad Tech Is Completely Broken
March 22, 2016:
Biggie Smalls
February 26, 2016:
Prioritize WiFi Networks on Your iOS Device
February 24, 2016:
Ample Concern
February 22, 2016:
An Adjustment of FBI Director James Comey’s Blog Post for Candour
February 4, 2016:
Brown Note
January 29, 2016:
Unbundled
January 4, 2016:
Picking Apples
December 22, 2015:
Audio Files
November 20, 2015:
Travelling Indonesia With an iPhone 6S
October 26, 2015:
An Imagined Conversation Between Airbus and a China Airlines Representative
October 18, 2015:
Fuzzy User Interfaces
October 9, 2015:
“What Do You Think?”
September 27, 2015:
On the Supposed Water Resistance of the iPhones 6S
September 15, 2015:
iOS 9: The Pixel Envy Review
September 11, 2015:
Rosy Glasses
September 9, 2015:
“Hey Siri, Are You Feeling Stereotypical?”
August 13, 2015:
Diversity of Tech Companies by the Numbers: 2015 Edition
July 20, 2015:
The Mobile Web Sucks, but You Can Do Something About It, Nilay Patel
July 3, 2015:
Clarifying the Apple Music DRM Situation
July 1, 2015:
Assorted Thoughts and Observations About Apple Music
June 16, 2015:
Ignoring Apple’s Fundamental Thinking
June 6, 2015:
The State of iOS: Addendum
June 5, 2015:
The State of iOS
June 4, 2015:
On Privacy and Service Offering Quality
May 14, 2015:
Snooping on Facebook Instant Articles
April 24, 2015:
The New Photos Paradigm
April 9, 2015:
Future Present
March 11, 2015:
Assorted Additional Thoughts on Monday’s “Spring Forward” Event
March 9, 2015:
Spring Forward, Indeed
February 17, 2015:
My Favourite Records of 2014
January 5, 2015:
Functional High Ground
December 16, 2014:
All-Canadian Duopoly
December 8, 2014:
Untransmitted
November 19, 2014:
Thoughts on WatchKit
November 1, 2014:
Let’s Talk About Money
October 29, 2014:
A Translation of MCX’s Hastily-Written Blog Post from PR-Speak to Plain English
October 5, 2014:
On iPods, iTunes, DRM, and Lock-in, in 2014, for Some Reason
September 17, 2014:
iOS 8: The Pixel Envy Review
August 13, 2014:
Diversity of Various Tech Companies By the Numbers
July 28, 2014:
Needs Must
July 17, 2014:
Translation of Stephen Elop’s Memo to Microsoft Employees From Weird Corporate Euphemisms to English
July 16, 2014:
Quick Note Regarding Post Frequency
June 2, 2014:
El Capitan
May 27, 2014:
Photo Post-Production on an iPhone
May 26, 2014:
Spitballing WWDC 2014
April 26, 2014:
On Peak iPad
April 3, 2014:
Brendan Eich’s Freedoms and Mozilla’s Freedoms
March 10, 2014:
Dot One
March 8, 2014:
GeoGuessr House Rules and Hints
February 19, 2014:
(Partially) Recovering From a Bizarre iTunes Error Turned Catastrophic
February 7, 2014:
Cloudlike: The Morals of Appropriation of Contemporary Artworks
January 24, 2014:
My First Macintosh
January 21, 2014:
Thoughts on Beats Music
December 31, 2013:
My Favourite Records of 2013
December 27, 2013:
Intellectual Property Brouhaha
December 16, 2013:
A Swing and a Miss
December 3, 2013:
Two Weeks With the Retina iPad Mini
November 13, 2013:
Legroom Becomes Equal
November 7, 2013:
The Kübler-Ross Stages of BlackBerry
October 25, 2013:
Exploring the New iWork for Mac File Formats
October 22, 2013:
Brian White is a Really Shitty Analyst
October 15, 2013:
Spitballing Apple’s October Event
October 6, 2013:
iPhone 6B, for Big
October 2, 2013:
Wristy Business
September 25, 2013:
FaceTime Audio Over a Cellular Connection
September 24, 2013:
Unsucking Apple’s Mapping Data
September 17, 2013:
iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review
August 9, 2013:
The Problem Exists Between Nerds and Normal People
August 1, 2013:
Enablers
July 16, 2013:
Ghost Town
June 15, 2013:
A Surprisingly Simple Fix for Imbalanced Volume From Apple In-Ear Headphones
June 12, 2013:
The Hierarchy of iOS 7
June 10, 2013:
Dub Dub
June 6, 2013:
Everything the Rumour Blogs Say Apple Will Be Introducing at WWDC
June 3, 2013:
What IQ Tests Lack
May 17, 2013:
Growing Pains
May 13, 2013:
Thoughts on the New York Times’ Prototype Article Redesign
May 10, 2013:
Design Is How It Works
April 30, 2013:
What a Stupid Idea
April 26, 2013:
Recommended by 4 Out of 5 Dentists
April 9, 2013:
A Snobbish Canadian’s Review of Tonx
April 2, 2013:
Housekeeping: RSS Feed Issues
March 25, 2013:
Springbored
March 4, 2013:
Voodoo Meditation
February 19, 2013:
Skipping Pebbles
February 5, 2013:
The Verge Reviews Microsoft’s Surface Pro
January 31, 2013:
Why I Don’t Stream My Music: A Somewhat Specific Set of Qualifications
January 4, 2013:
Voyeuristic Tendencies
December 27, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Ten: Held
December 22, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Nine: Grimes
December 21, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012: Honourable Mentions
December 20, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition 8: ‘Allelujah!
December 19, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Seven: Frank Ocean
December 18, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Six: Dum Dum Girls
December 17, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Five: DJ Shadow
December 16, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Four: Deftones
December 15, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Three: Clams Casino
December 14, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition Two: Kindred
December 13, 2012:
The Best Albums of 2012, Edition One: Silver Age
December 12, 2012:
Google Maps for iPhone
December 7, 2012:
First Third, 2013
November 10, 2012:
Tick Tock
November 2, 2012:
Every Article I Neglected to Post Regarding Apple’s Big Executive Switch Which, by Now, You Must Be Sick and Tired of Reading About
November 1, 2012:
Record Player Elegance
October 30, 2012:
The Best Possible Situation
October 29, 2012:
Bubble Wrap
October 23, 2012:
Thoughts on Today’s Apple Event
October 19, 2012:
UDID to IDFA FUD
October 5, 2012:
More Small iPad Spitballing
October 4, 2012:
Spitballing a Smaller iPad
October 1, 2012:
Regarding Snappli’s Claim That Only 4% of Their iPhone Userbase Are Using Apple’s Maps
September 22, 2012:
Hold Me Closer, Betteridge
September 17, 2012:
The Subtlety of Progress
September 10, 2012:
The Cola Wars
September 2, 2012:
My Broken Mailbox
August 27, 2012:
Diagnosing an Oft-Dropping AirPort Extreme Connection
August 22, 2012:
Translation of Selected Portions of AT&T’s Blog Post Regarding FaceTime Over Their Cellular Network
August 21, 2012:
New Hotness
August 16, 2012:
Proposed Browser Support for Retina-Ready Images
August 11, 2012:
Eight Inches
August 3, 2012:
Armchair Rumour Speculation
July 30, 2012:
Please Stop Stacking Arial in Front of Helvetica in Your Stylesheets
July 24, 2012:
Lightweight Embedding of Facebook Page Updates
July 22, 2012:
Tuxedo
July 15, 2012:
Everybody Hates Windows Phone
July 14, 2012:
Pixel Envy
July 11, 2012:
This Whole EPEAT Kerfuffle
June 25, 2012:
Designing for Destruction
June 11, 2012:
Peanut Gallery: WWDC 2012 Edition
June 8, 2012:
Seven Inches
May 31, 2012:
@2x Pedantry
May 11, 2012:
Hypothetical Television Set
May 8, 2012:
iTunes: Thor, or the Hydra
May 1, 2012:
BookBook for iPhone: The Final Verdict
April 28, 2012:
Improvements to Permalinks and Citations
April 26, 2012:
Optical Lamination, or the Lack Thereof
April 24, 2012:
My iOS 6 Wish List
March 29, 2012:
Two Weeks with the New iPad
March 12, 2012:
9 AM
March 7, 2012:
About that BookBook…
March 3, 2012:
Rob Enderle: Wrong Again
February 25, 2012:
Followup: BookBook for iPhone
February 21, 2012:
Every Product is a Killer Product
February 12, 2012:
The Critical Thought of Creativity
January 20, 2012:
The New Education
January 12, 2012:
Notes From the Android Design Guidelines
January 9, 2012:
They’re Exactly What You’d Call “Guidelines”
January 5, 2012:
Dear Comedy Central
December 31, 2011:
Future Nostalgia
December 28, 2011:
Resolutions
December 23, 2011:
The Larger Scope
December 5, 2011:
That “Store” Button in iOS 5’s Music App
November 26, 2011:
You Get What You Pay For
November 25, 2011:
The X-Factor
November 16, 2011:
Two Weeks with the iPhone 4S
October 30, 2011:
Google’s Moral Duality
October 29, 2011:
Visions of the Present
October 19, 2011:
It’s Like Rain on Your Wedding Day
October 12, 2011:
The “F” in “Five” is Either For “Fantastic” or “Finally”
October 5, 2011:
Remembering Steve Jobs
September 18, 2011:
Ephemera Regarding Permanence
September 7, 2011:
Sony’s Unlimited Music Designer Should Have a Stick Wedged So Firmly Up His or Her Ass
August 30, 2011:
Open
August 24, 2011:
The Ex-CEO, the New CEO and the Future of Apple
August 12, 2011:
Review: BookBook for iPhone 4
July 21, 2011:
Yet Another Entry in My Series of Poorly-Considered and Ill-Advised Bullet-Point Thoughts
June 29, 2011:
Translating Apple’s Final Cut FAQ into Plain English
June 21, 2011:
“I’d like your pointiest boot.”
May 22, 2011:
Free Ideas for Developers
May 19, 2011:
Don’t Wake the Dragon, But Maybe Strike Up a Licensing Deal With It
May 10, 2011:
It’s the Experience, Stupid
April 24, 2011:
You Suck at Making Coffee
April 13, 2011:
Translation of Selected Portions of Microsoft’s “Mango” Press Release to Plain English
April 5, 2011:
Observation RE: NY Times Subscriptions
March 26, 2011:
Various Bullet-Point Thoughts on the iPad 2
March 15, 2011:
Multitasking, etc.
March 2, 2011:
Followup to “2”
March 1, 2011:
2
February 14, 2011:
Wherein I Discuss Layout Decisions
January 18, 2011:
It Might But Probably Won’t
December 29, 2010:
Not So Fast, Bucko
September 25, 2009:
Thoughts on Wireless Power
August 11, 2009:
Pop, Revisited
July 31, 2009:
Display Your Latest Tweet With PHP
July 28, 2009:
Espresso
February 21, 2009:
On Pop Music
January 18, 2009:
Of Genres and Tags