Thunderbolt, and MacBook Pros – FAQs

March 31, 2011 View Comments

Last month – Apple released their new MacBook Pros – they added a mysterious new port known as Thunderbolt.  It’s been developed by Intel, and for a while was known as “Light Peak”. KeyOptions have just refreshed our training room – with a suite of 16 new Thunderbolt MacBook Pros.  We’ve just started testing them [...]

1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg

March 23, 2011 View Comments

Not a new essay, but one of my favourites. From Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, about overcoming perfectionism and releasing a 1.0 when “good enough”. I imagine prior to the launch of the iPod, or the iPhone, there were teams saying the same thing: the copy + paste guys are *so close* to being ready [...]

ZDnet’s 5 ways Apple botched the iPad 2 launch – Terrible Pageview Journalism

March 19, 2011 View Comments

This kind of desperate-for-pageviews article is a fine example of whats wrong with tech journalism on the web these days. Apple didn’t botch the iPad launch, they successfully launched the iPad  2 almost exactly as they launched the Original iPad, only the demand was greater this time round. But let me respond to all five [...]