Pixel Envy
Written by Nick Heer.
January 11, 2022:
Responsible
December 31, 2021:
Something New in Something Old
December 6, 2021:
Privacy and Repairs
November 18, 2021:
Not What Windows Wrought
November 10, 2021:
Craig Federighi and Tim Cook on Sideloading
November 3, 2021:
The Trials and Travails of Digital Vaccine Cards
October 25, 2021:
Facebook and Google’s Alleged Collaboration to Fight Privacy
October 12, 2021:
TikTok Talk
October 6, 2021:
Zuckerberg Zags
September 21, 2021:
Bain Brains Take Pains to Ascertain Gains in Mains’ Reign
September 14, 2021:
Ex S
September 10, 2021:
WhatsApp Encryption Hullabaloo
August 31, 2021:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy
August 23, 2021:
Tying Together Some Loose Threads
August 19, 2021:
Discovery Dumpster Diving
August 9, 2021:
Capability and Policy in Apple’s Child Safety Efforts
August 5, 2021:
Apple’s Child Safety Initiatives
July 19, 2021:
Security Is the Story We Have, Not the Story We Want to Have
June 24, 2021:
Some Digital Packrattery
June 17, 2021:
Safari 15 and Chickenshit Minimalism
June 9, 2021:
Open Rates and Mail’s Market Share
May 31, 2021:
Street-Level Imagery in a Pandemic
May 24, 2021:
The New York Times Takes the Bait
May 20, 2021:
The Albergotti Spin
May 7, 2021:
All Developers Are Equal, but Some Developers Are More Equal Than Others
April 29, 2021:
Spring
April 27, 2021:
Gorge
April 14, 2021:
Private Exploit Marketplaces May Have Broad Security Benefits
March 29, 2021:
Concentrated Influence in the Internet’s Stack, Not Just Platforms, Creates Different Venues for Control
March 24, 2021:
Mac OS X Turns Twenty
March 18, 2021:
Privacy, Policy
February 12, 2021:
Supermicrofragilisticexpialidocious
February 11, 2021:
Allowing Apps to Access Your Contacts Remains a Glaring Privacy Violation
February 3, 2021:
Let’s Play the Blame Game, for Sure
January 30, 2021:
Grading Apple’s 2020
January 28, 2021:
Sidebar: Translucency
December 29, 2020:
Objects of Power
December 14, 2020:
A Brief Look at ProRAW
November 12, 2020:
Assorted MacOS Big Sur Design-Related Observations
November 10, 2020:
M Powered
November 7, 2020:
Biden–Harris
October 28, 2020:
Regarding That FT Report About Apple’s Search Engine Ambitions
October 26, 2020:
A Seamless Whole
October 13, 2020:
New iPhone Day 2020
September 29, 2020:
‘The Social Dilemma’ Dilemma
September 24, 2020:
The Peculiar Rise of the Paid Email Newsletter
September 10, 2020:
A Step Back
September 8, 2020:
The Money Store
September 3, 2020:
For Sale: Millions of Back Doors
August 23, 2020:
App Store Desire Paths
July 29, 2020:
Big Tech’s Power Comes Under Fire at Congressional Antitrust Hearing
July 15, 2020:
Google’s Abuse of Its Dominant Position Isn’t Only Maybe Illegal, It Also Makes for Worse Products
July 3, 2020:
Climbing Up the Walls
June 23, 2020:
Only Apple
June 18, 2020:
Hey, Wait, I’ve Got a New Complaint
June 16, 2020:
Hey, Nah
May 15, 2020:
Security Theatre in Safari Download Permissions
May 5, 2020:
Streaming Follows a Trail Paved by Thieves and Pirates
April 17, 2020:
The Bullshit Web’s Ubiquity
March 19, 2020:
A Status Update on the Toaster-Refrigerator Project
February 26, 2020:
Why TV?
February 21, 2020:
Catalina’s Dialog Bureaucracy
January 29, 2020:
Neil Young Is Back on His Audiophile Bullshit
January 17, 2020:
Rage Against the Machine Learning
January 14, 2020:
An Avenue by Which It Might Be Technically Possible to Give an iPhone ‘The Software Equivalent of Cancer’
January 13, 2020:
Framed
January 8, 2020:
Why Not Both? Or: Privacy Laws Won’t Fix Everything and That’s Okay
December 5, 2019:
A More Incremental iOS
November 28, 2019:
From Garages to Geopolitical Quagmires
October 9, 2019:
A Handful of Links and Thoughts Concerning the Future of Transportation
October 4, 2019:
One Year After ‘The Big Hack’
September 27, 2019:
Art in the Age of Digital Subscription
September 13, 2019:
Lock-In and Ecosystems
September 10, 2019:
Assorted Items of Note Following Apple’s September 2019 Product Launch Presentation
September 6, 2019:
Don’t Speak
August 8, 2019:
The FTC Completely Blew Its Settlement With Equifax
June 19, 2019:
Theft With Permission
May 20, 2019:
WWDC 2019 Prelude
May 12, 2019:
Questions About 5G Safety Are Being Politicized
May 4, 2019:
Defining ‘Free’ For All
April 24, 2019:
The Apple Watch Turns Four: Some Thoughts
March 25, 2019:
Some Brief Thoughts on Services, Generally, and Apple’s Announcements Today, More Specifically
March 15, 2019:
A Sensation Not Unlike Slapping Yourself in the Face
March 14, 2019:
Rich Lowry Pennybags
February 6, 2019:
Messages’ Mixed Messages
December 12, 2018:
A Touch of Touch
November 26, 2018:
On Apple Portables in the Approximately $1,200 to $1,300 Price Range
October 30, 2018:
Pioneer
October 4, 2018:
Thinking About Bloomberg’s Report on Hardware Vulnerabilities in Servers Made in China
September 26, 2018:
Reading the Tea Leaves
August 16, 2018:
The Landowner and the Apartments
July 30, 2018:
The Bullshit Web
June 15, 2018:
Best Before
May 24, 2018:
Notes on Notifications
May 7, 2018:
VI Months With the iPhone X
April 13, 2018:
The Other Irresponsibility
April 10, 2018:
Updates From Indonesia
March 9, 2018:
The Original Siri App Compared to Siri Today
March 8, 2018:
In Defence of Surfing the Insecure Web
February 8, 2018:
Reports of Google’s Newfound Design Prowess Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
January 16, 2018:
A Brief Critique of the Horrible UI of Hawaii’s EMA Alert System
January 8, 2018:
The App Store’s Giant Pool of Money
December 19, 2017:
Slow Down
November 28, 2017:
Ben Thompson Is Wrong About the Deregulation of ISPs
November 21, 2017:
Ajit Pai’s Giant Middle Finger
November 14, 2017:
The iPhone X
October 31, 2017:
Seeking Trust
October 25, 2017:
On Bloomberg’s Report That Apple Downgraded the Accuracy of Face ID to Improve iPhone X Production Speed
October 17, 2017:
Dust and Tedium
September 19, 2017:
iOS 11: The Pixel Envy Review
September 14, 2017:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
August 31, 2017:
On the Intercept, Conflicts of Interest, and Journalistic Independence
August 23, 2017:
The Ruinous Sameness of Kinja and Medium Websites
August 17, 2017:
Privately Public
August 2, 2017:
Amber Rudd’s Ruddy Dumb Case Against Encryption
August 1, 2017:
Apple in China
July 17, 2017:
The 2017 iPad
July 12, 2017:
Comcast and Verizon, Counting on Ignorance, Claim to Support Net Neutrality
July 10, 2017:
Pro
June 23, 2017:
Snowballing App Sizes
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