This year has seen a lot of big activity in the home automation market. Why hasn’t a Home Automation Revolution happened already ? Why is a central controller is needed ? Home automation integration in an Internet TV device ? What moves is Apple making ? I have been interested …
This Tue, Sept 9th, Apple’s big Sept event is happening. What might they have in store this time ? The new iPhone 6 models ? For sure. iOS 8 released very soon ? Of course. But what else might be coming from Apple ? What areas are ripe for some …
To follow up my last article Design Inspiration: Smart TV, Internet TV & Gaming, where I discussed the current state of the market, the convergence that is occurring and opportunities that are emerging. In this article I dive into: What would a great TV User eXperience (UX) look like …
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Apple’s A7 Circuit Image Processors, both mobile and desktop, typically evolve in regular cycles with bumps in performance, power management = battery life, integrated components, like a GPU, that reduce the number of chips required and more. But they rarely leap. Some of those leaps are coming soon though, and have …
On Monday, Apple updated the iOS 8 to Beta 5 and Mac OS X Yosemite to Developer Preview 5 (DP5). This article gives some useful links to learn more about iOS 8 and Yosemite. For iOS 8 Beta installation steps, tips and more check out my blog article How To …
In my Feb article Design Inspiration: Second Screen Designs I wrote about some TV applications. In this article in the Design Inspiration series, I’ll talk about some of the many cool opportunities that I think are in the TV and gaming tech market, but no one is taking full advantage …
A few of the very cool design ideas that I discussed in my blog article Design Inspiration: Second Screen Designs are starting to appear. Since I wrote that article, Apple’s CarPlay has been launched and now Avatron has released Air Stylus an app that lets you use your iPad as …
The tech rumor mill has been buzzin’ very loudly all month about Apple acquiring Beats. And now it’s actually happened. It’s the biggest acquisition that Apple has ever done, so that in itself, makes this very significant. Apple’s strategy, unlike many tech titans, is to do small, strategic acquisitions. And …
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Apple CarPlay As I anticipated in my article Design Inspiration: Second Screen Designs, Apple has announced CarPlay to offer even more integration of iOS with in car systems. This is a breakthrough in mobile second screen designs, and represents an important milestone towards extensive local interconnectivity of our devices. Initial …
Second screen designs have the potential to revolutionize many types of applications. And to date, app developers have barely scratched the surface of that enormous potential. In this, my first article in a series of articles on design that I’m calling Design Inspiration, I begin to explore some of the …
The rumors have been flying fast and hot for months. Which is, as usual for Apple. No body gets the tech business juices flowing like Apple does. So much so, that competitors, and even not so competitors, have taken to doing their own announcements around Apple events. Trying to …