Nik Rawlinson

Apple looks to a mobile future

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

The WWDC sell-out shows Apple is calling the shots in the mobile arena. If ever proof was needed that the future is mobile, it comes from Apple’s ticketing staff. This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has sold out in record time, despite its narrow focus on iPad and iPhone development. In previous years, the WWDC [...]

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Indecent exposure

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

With iPhone 4 laid bare on Gizmodo, Apple is in a very difficult position… Well, any suggestion that Apple deliberately leaked the fourth-generation iPhone has pretty much been scotched. If you’re not up to speed, Apple employee Gray Powell was out in a bar testing a live sample. He left it on a seat, under [...]

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Time to bury the hatchet

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

Apple and Adobe should come to a truce in the whole Flash débacle. Adobe and Apple are not best of friends. Not right now, anyhow. That’s a shame, really, as both have great news to trumpet: for Apple, the iPad; for Adobe, Creative Suite 5. Both stellar products that are rightly garnering acres of print [...]

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MacUser hits the big time

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

As of now, we’re 30% bigger to bring you even more Mac coverage – enjoy! Pinch us. We’re thicker. After months of planning, commissioning, writing and editing, we’re proud to bring you the first of our bigger issues of MacUser, now 30% larger at the same price as before. Excuse me the rah-rah-rahs just this [...]

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Bargain PCs? What a setup!

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

PCs are much cheaper than Macs, but there’s a reason for that… I helped set up my neighbour’s new PC last night. And I must admit that the whole thing was quite an eye-opener. Said neighbour, who we’ll call Alan (for that is not his name) had invested in a Windows 7 notebook. Very smart, [...]

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Banning apps is not the solution

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

But will Apple learn a moral lesson over its wobbly approval process? There’s a lot of chatter right now about Apple’s decision to delete 5000-odd applications from iTunes App Store. Its grounds? Taste and decency. Talk about horses, doors and bolting. The apps in question largely revolved around body parts and minimal clothing and Apple [...]

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