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Business Insider is amused: it’s found video of Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer dismissing the iPhone back in 2007. INTERVIEWER: … The Zune was getting some traction. Then Steve Jobs goes to MacWorld and he pulls out this iPhone. What was your reaction when you saw that? STEVE BALLMER: 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? … [more]
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It’s overhyped, costs a bloody fortune, probably isn’t as shatterproof as Apple would have you believe and appears to have been rushed out of the factory (some of the first units have yellowed screens, antennas shorting out and so on), but if you don’t want to buy one then for God’s sake don’t play with… [more]
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Or at least, don’t do it if you like using your phone. It’s not just me: we asked Techradar readers for their experiences and it seems that the iPhone 3G and the initial release of iOS 4.0 go together like strawberries and Beelzebub. Maybe all those new goodies in the OS – the folders, the… [more]
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You know it makes sense. The public coffers are empty, and that means we need to make sacrifices. The school leaving age will be reduced to six. Hospitals will no longer treat you unless you’re spurting blood or other fluids. Benefits will be slashed, the unemployed will be forced to eat one another and Wales… [more]
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I wasn’t impressed by the 3GS – it seemed like a lot of cash for not a lot of things – but I’m sold on the fourth one, UK prices permitting. Techradar’s Apple iPhone review tells you what’s what. The big selling point for me is the new screen. [more]
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Last night Apple’s market capitalisation exceeded Microsoft’s for the first time since 1989. I think it’s interesting, not because Apple’s damaging Microsoft but because of the picture the numbers paint. Since the return of Steve Jobs, Apple has transformed itself, especially since its invention of the iPod: almost overnight, Apple went from being a computer… [more]
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A quick hands-on: The iPlayer home page now has four columns at the top: Featured, which details the BBC’s current pick of its output; For You, which is based on what you’ve been watching; Most Popular, which is self-explanatory; and Friends. That’s the iPlayer’s new social network integration, and you’ll need to sign up for… [more]
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Me, you know where: Parents of young children can spot an insincere apology from miles away. “Sorry,” your tot mumbles, after you find the dog half-shaved and your Xbox full of jam. “Sorry for what?” you’ll say. “Sorry for shaving the dog and putting jam in your Xbox,” he’ll say, looking at the floor. But… [more]
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I know, I know, I said I was going. Just one post… I’m writing this on an Acer Aspire 5051 laptop, a cheapo laptop that cost about £299 three-ish years ago. It’s rather underpowered, and moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista damn near killed it; Windows 7 made things a bit better, but using… [more]
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There’s been a lot of discussion about Gizmodo’s big iPhone scoop, where an iPhone prototype was apparently left in a bar. The person who found it then went round the gadget sites, selling it to Gizmodo for $5,000 (says the New York Times). Gawker Media (Gizmodo’s parent company) has made a smart financial investment here:… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
