John Martellaro

 BI/SAI chart of the dayBut there’s an even better way to display this chart, and it hasn’t been lost on Horace Dediu at Asymco. In a revised version of this chart, he’s grouped together the OS X and iOS related products. It looks like this:Asymco versionThis second way of looking at the chart is even…

Sometimes I think that Apple has a supercomputer in some secret complex that completely models the consumer electronics market. Imagine for a minute a digital simulation that has all the elements of the market place: customer usage patterns, the price elasticity of products, component part prices and extrapolation for the future, the average broadband speeds…

The Journey Begins We now know officially that Apple will not be supporting web site hosting after June 2012. Also, the iWeb ‘09 app hasn’t seen a major update in some time, and Steve Jobs in a purported e-mail has confirmed that Apple customers will need to find another web site builder. So, like many…

Nowadays, things are different. Apple is a fantastically successful company, loved by its customers. Apple is making a lot of money from iPhones and iPads. Apple cannot do anything wrong. So why is the Mac’s market share still a paltry 8.5 percent in the U.S. and 4 percent world wide? If Apple is such a…

Dave Hamilton: We’re here at WWDC with Marco Arment. As I recall, you’ve had a very interesting history of developing for Apple. Is Instapaper your first real project? Marco Arment: Yeah, it really is. After playing with it one night at a time for a few years, it’s my first Apple environment product. DH: Of…

Dave Hamilton: I’m here at WWDC with Ben Satterfield from 23Divide Software. Let’s start with the most recent thing and go backwards. You’ve been a kind of a serial entrepreneur — if the term applies. TestFlight. A very cool platform for both developers and anyone who is working with a developer testing an app. Ben…

Dave Hamilton: So. Interesting times! Andrew Stone: My god. This is probably the most excitement we’ve had since Apple rolled out the iPhone in 2007. DH: Why do you think that? AS: It’s a bitter-sweet time because Bertrand [Serlet], VP of Software Engineering, left this year. And so I’m all of a sudden looking around…

Dave Hamilton: You had kind of an interesting path in the Apple market. In essence you started making tools for übergeeks. James Wilson: Exactly right. I mean, we started as a band of übergeeks that had no intention at all of ever making a product in the Mac space. In 2003, we actually started as…

Continued from Part I. Dave Hamilton: Tell us about the early days of the Macintosh. Dan Bricklin: We were there when the Mac came out and we released, under Software Arts, TK Solver — which we ported to the Mac. That’s because we used a “write once, run everywhere” language. So we put that on…

Dave Hamilton: So what are you thinking about these days? Dan Bricklin: The iPad. DH: Of course! Tell me more. DB: The magic of the iPad is not that Apple magically writes code. There are other things that make it magical. I believe it’s magical, but I believe the magic is in the control it…

In 1998, Steve Jobs stood up and abruptly, boldly cancelled OpenDoc right before the bewildered eyes of several thousand developers. Previously, they had been told that OpenDoc was Apple’s salvation and answer to Windows. But that was the previous regime. Mr. Jobs had different, bold plans for the resurrection of Apple, namely simplifying the product…

Internet communication is so good nowadays that no company can drop just any old product out there and hope for the best — before the consumers get wise. Instead, the community of users, via Facebook and Twitter, conceive of what they need and create a group consciousness about what serves their needs and what doesn’t.…

The Macintosh is benefiting from the iPhone and iPad halo effect. Macintosh sales continue to grow and Apple continues to note in its earnings reports that half of their retail sales are to former PC users. The Mac is being embraced, more and more, by thousands of newbies, students, and people of all ages who…

Ghostery is a free plug-in for Safari — and other browsers — that detects a website’s attempts to log your habits via tracking cookies and stops it cold. It installs easily and has a seamless but informative interface. After downloading, Ghostery installs with a double click into ~/Library/Safari/Extensions. It’s easy to uninstall by just dragging…

Recently, we’ve become even more aware of the fact that the devices or Internet software we use, while providing lots of utility, is really a black box. It all started with Google mail which we, at first, thought of as serving us, but realized only later that it was a massive data mining operation. These…