Benchmarking in your pants – 10th Anniversary Edition™

One of my favorite posts is one that’s over ten years old: Benchmarking in your pants. In that essay, I compared the original iPhone to my iMac, both with native and web apps. One of the reviewers of my treatise on the iPhone SDK thought it would be fun to see how those numbers stack […]

How Not to Do Accessibility

I’m 57 years old and my eyesight is getting worse every year. As a result, I have a newfound appreciation for the accessibility features that Apple builds into its products: they’re a lifeline for people who have problems worse than mine. With such a unique and concerted effort towards accessibility, it’s surprising to see Apple […]

The Forensic Shit Show

It turns out someone at the FBI advised another law enforcement officer in San Bernardino to reset the iPhone that the government wants Apple to unlock. This is just another episode in a complete forensic shit show. Remember, this is the same case where the media was allowed to roam freely through a crime scene. […]

The New iPod

Something tells me that there were a lot of Apple Watches under the tree this year: That graph shows the last month of downloads for my free Clicker app for watchOS. Since this app does nothing on an iPhone or iPad, the only reason to get it is if you have a new watch. Many […]

A Responsive Factory

Back in May 2014, we introduced a new Iconfactory home page. One of the main design goals for that site was to make the layout a responsive web design: the same site looked great whether you were looking at it on a desktop PC or an iPhone. Reading Ethan Marcotte’s book was a revelation. Of […]