Screwing Up

On the ride home today, I passed the same ad I pass every day: an ad for Android Apps. Google’s adver­tis­ing dom­i­nance of a mar­ket which Apple cre­ated. The papers (blogs) are full of com­plaints, and there’s been a def­i­nite mood shift. Before, peo­ple had a love/hate rela­tion­ship with Apple: they loved how awe­some the …

Cracked Screen

Took me a cou­ple years and a cou­ple lap­tops, but I finally dropped one just good enough to shat­ter the LCD. AppleCare doesn’t cover broke-it-yourself phys­i­cal dam­age, only the deep cen­ter of the bath­tub curve, so it’s basi­cally point­less to drop the money on it. Again, if you’re buy­ing a Mac, save your pen­nies and don’t …