With Apple’s announcement that Craig Federighi has been named a Senior Vice President, fans of the Mac should breathe a little bit easier today. He is now on equal footing with Scott Forstall on the organizational level and is a sign of Apple’s dedication to pushing the Mac software scene forward just as it has in the past.
If this report by MacRumors is true, Apple could be in for a slow downfall.
The retail stores are one of the best tools Apple has in its portfolio right now, and doing ANYTHING to weaken the customer experiences in those stores is going to be bad for the company overall. The fact that people are citing Tim Cook as one of the people behind the push for profits instead of the customers is even more concerning because you have to extrapolate where else Tim might take this same approach in the company.
All this means is that everyone should keep a close eye on Apple for where it is putting its emphasis. Tim Cook has a great thing going right now, but it can easily fall apart if he is not careful.
Mac Rumors is reporting that the Retina displays for a new 13″ MacBook Pro are now in production, but I still have my worries about such a machine … and I’m a huge fan of the 13″ MacBook Pro.
Still, I’d buy one.
I’ll start by confessing that I have never build a non-trivial application in my life. I’ve mainly worked on creating websites for people and working with HTML and CSS with some Ruby/Python/PHP thrown in.
However, as I contemplate building a non-trivial application, I’m debating where to start and what role the web will take.
Basically: do I build Twitter or Instagram? Hear me out.
If I build Twitter, I build the entire client on the web first. That’s where I start. After I have that squared away, then I could move onto other clients using an API.
Building Instagram, I’d build the native applications first and the web would be the saving and transport mechanism. I might return later to build a web client, but I’d be using IP networking mainly to transport bits to a server so that it could be shared with others.
That’s the mental problem I am working with right now along with learning how to code within iOS. It is a fun argument to have in my head.
I’m talking about my setup tonight. Focusing on simplifying it again so that I don’t spend quite so much time administering to the disparate pieces.
I apologize for the poor speaking voice this evening, something wasn’t quite sitting right in my throat.
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