November 2011
In Praise of iTunes Match
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Jason Snell thought he’d buy a year of iTunes Match and then cancel, but he’s having second thoughts.
October 2011
Steve Jobs: Making a dent in the universe
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Jason Snell remembers Steve Jobs, his life, and what he meant to all of us.
August 2011
Life after Jobs: Why Apple isn't doomed
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Steve Jobs stepping away from Apple as CEO is a big deal, Jason Snell says. But the former Apple CEO has crafted the company in his own image.
July 2011
Snell: The shuttle and the stuff of dreams
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Jason Snell went to the space shuttle launch last week. Here are his notes on the experience.
June 2011
WWDC: Apple goes to the mattresses
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Jason Snell says something about Apple’s WWDC 2011 keynote reminded him of mobster movies. No, nobody got whacked. (Except MobileMe.) But Apple did settle old scores and move aggressively…
December 2010
Snell: We'll always need trucks →
Is the Mac OS is going to become more like iOS (and vice versa)? Yes, perhaps, but it’s not time for a panic attack.
October 2010
The singulars are plural, isn't they?
In an article I just posted, I wrote this:
(And you can only make these upgrades when you order the product; none of these features is upgradable after the fact, either by you or your local Apple Genius.)
I got a note on Twitter from a follower:
@jsnell “none of these features is upgradable after the fact” - I think you want ARE instead of is. #corrections
On first blush...
September 2010
Wanted: story management
We track a lot of stories at Macworld in a given day. Some we decide aren’t worth covering. Some we toss into a heap for our Remainders column. Some get written up if there’s time, or tossed on the heap. Some are must-writes.
We also get a lot of press releases and news tips every day. And we have a stable of writers, on staff and off.
What we are lacking right now is a good way to...
Snell: New App Store guidelines go deeper than... →
Headline writers will focus on the Apple-Adobe squabble over Flash when reporting on the App Store guidelines Apple released Thursday. But Jason Snell says there’s more to the story — namely that…
July 2010
Inside Macworld's iPhone 4-created cover →
Macworld’s September 2010 issue features a cover shot of an iPhone 4 taken and processed with another iPhone 4.
Snell: Will iTunes replace your local comics... →
Jason Snell checks in from Comic-Con International, where comic book retailers are facing the same issues from the digital revolution that music sellers had to deal with a decade ago.
June 2010
Opinion: Time for Apple to open up the iPhone →
Jason Snell argues that with Apple’s lack of openness being its biggest vulnerability, it’s time for the company to mute criticism by allowing any third-party app to be installed on iPhone OS…
May 2010
Great moments in journalism
(Actual e-mail from Gizmodo’s Brian Lam via a public affidavit. Please note we don’t actually know the context of this e-mail, particularly what communications from Apple preceded it or followed it.)
From: brian lam <blam@brianlam.net>
Date: April 19, 2010 04:08:07 PM PDT
To: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com>
Subject: Let’s see if this goes through.
Hey...
April 2010
Macworld's plans for the iPad →
Jason Snell talks about what Macworld’s plans for the iPad are — digital editions via Zinio, the web site, and a forthcoming iPad app.
Inside the numbers: Apple's great quarter →
Jason Snell takes a look at some of the less noticeable numbers that tell the story of Apple’s latest remarkable financial performance.
Analysis: Apple against the world →
Jason Snell looks at Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 event and its shots at Google and Adobe, and what it all means.
March 2010
Attention and audiences
So Gruber noted my previous piece responding to Merlin Mann.
I’ve had a few people ask if I was going to “respond to Gruber,” and I told them I wasn’t, because I don’t necessarily disagree with anything John wrote.
All I would say — and Gruber notes this himself in the piece — is that the economics of a one-man blog are vastly different from the economics of a...
Merlin wants free full-text RSS feeds
merlin:
And, I’ll look forward to seeing similar CMS bugs fixed by Macworld, The New York Times, and all the other excellent sites that fell out of my reader when their full-content feeds disappeared.
Full content in RSS is awesome. Free content in general is awesome. There’s just one trick. In the end, writers need to be paid.
As an editorial guy, I’ve advocated for freer...
February 2010
Mac Pundit Showdown at Macworld Expo (Bootleg) →
We did a Mac Pundit Showdown at Expo, and tried to capture the audio, but it was an utter failure. Not the presentation, just the audio recording. I’ve made a recording from two samples that is listenable, but is really only of bootleg quality.
So if you want to listen, you can - but don’t complain that it sounds awful, because it does. Though after the first 45 seconds you can...
Twitter begone
I’m not going to autopost my Twitter stuff to Tumblr anymore. Feel free to follow me at twitter.com/jsnell instead.
I should say, not on an HD channel carried by my provider. :-(
This is a really entertaining hockey game. Wish it was in HD.
Nice to actually be watching a major Olympic event live, for once. (USA-Canada hockey.)
.@will_blake Opening a Sierra Nevada Porter to go with my homemade chili.
Do you believe in hockey upsets by professional athletes? YES!!!!!!!!!!
Did I just buy a Curling game for my iPhone? Yes. Yes I did.
And now to bed.
Limo ride with ¥PhilMichaels to 10th anniversary dinner with Pat McGovern. http://twitpic.com/1486ps
Macworld’s now hiring a Senior Editor/Writer! If you’re an experienced tech writer and editor, check it out: http://bit.ly/9knta7
Note to self. Every time I move systems: CS4, iTunes, ScreenFlow, SoundSoap. All need to be deauthorized or there’s hell to pay.
Software authorization sucks. Makes me feel like a criminal. I bought this software twice, and can use it nonce. Sigh.
Who has two thumbs, two copies of BIAS SoundSoap, and an inability to use either of them due to ridiculous software authorization? This guy!
Now playing: In Defense of the Genre by Say Anything. It’s that kind of morning.
Was short-track speed skating invented by a crazy person?
Our @rgriff talked to Intuit’s @patzer at Macworld Expo and it’s a podcast: http://bit.ly/daaQjW - read the comments for angry users.
As a Quicken/Mac user since 1995 I get the Intuit frustration. But the new guy might actually be trying to right the ship. We’ll see…
Just had a nice chat with @apatzer of Mint and Quicken about forthcoming Mac version - and what comes next. I’ll say more next week…
Macworld/PC World is hiring a product manager for mobile products! http://bit.ly/dlMEhD
I hate to say it, but a lot of these “tablet media demos” look like CD-ROMs demos I saw in the ’90s. Except with a touchscreen. Old news.
About to do some public speaking. #fb
I think the NY Times demo at Apple’s event is a more realistic suggestion of near-future media than the Wired/Adobe demo.
I love advanced design tools, but in the end, a human has to use them to design things. Tools can make us more efficient, but can’t design.
Here’s what I’m talking about: The official @wired iPad Magazine demo: http://bit.ly/dtejRE (via @mat)
.@jhurdlow I heard that about CD-ROMs, about the web, about e-readers… every new-media overpromise comes with a reality letdown.
All these digital-magazine mockups look cool, but do you know how much it’d cost to build them every issue? A fortune. Unrealistic.
For those in the North Bay, I’m speaking at NCMUG in Santa Rosa on Tuesday evening. Topic: iPad and Macworld Expo.
As Macworld’s livebloggers, @dmoren and I were amused to have been the subject of a liveblog today by @tuaw. Thanks guys!
We’re going to put all the feature presentations we can on our YouTube channel next week.
Thanks to @Ryan @dmoren @Ihnatko @tedlandau for a great iPad session. #macworld2010