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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Understanding The Debate Over Apple’s Mac...
Apple will require all Mac App Store apps to implement sandboxing restrictions by next March. The goal is increased security and a simpler interface. But these potential advantages come with costs,...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: iCloud Forgets to Keep it Simple
One of Apple’s mainstay principles — perhaps its key principle — has been to maintain a focus on simplicity and “ease of use.” This means that products, especially consumer-oriented ones, should...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Music CDs Near Dead; iPods Fade
A rumor says that music CDs may soon gasp their last breath. In related news, the current sales decline of traditional (non-touch) iPods is likely to continue. Ted Landau sorts out what it all means.
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Top 5 Apple Stories of 2011
It’s that time. Time for Ted Landau’s second annual Top 5 Apple Stories of Year. There should be no suspense as to what story is number one. Regardless, we’ll count ‘em down.
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Don’t Pre-judge the Kindle Touch
Ted Landau received his Kindle Touch last week. Just in time. He was on the verge of canceling his order due to all the press negatively comparing the Touch to the Kindle 4. In the end, he was glad...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Why You Still Shouldn’t Care About AppleCare
With the 2011 holiday season upon us, many many many people will be getting Apple products as gifts over the next few weeks. They will all have an opportunity to purchase AppleCare for their new...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Why Apple Strays from “Keep it Simple”
Apple is taking some unwelcome detours from the path to simplicity. For instance, how many different locations does it take to accommodate all settings related to iOS’s Notes app? The answer is at...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Why a 7 Inch iPad Makes Sense
When asked about the wisdom of a 7-in. iPad, Steve Jobs dismissed it as “dead on arrival.” Times have changed. Ted Landau explains why a 7-in. iPad not only makes sense now but offers a great...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Year One A.J. (After Steve Jobs)
To the vast majority of the world, we are living in the year 2012. To those of us who spend much of our time within the Apple universe, it may be more appropriately labeled as year 1 A.J. (after Jobs)....
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Apple Shines with iBooks Author
Apple is hoping to change the education with its interactive textbooks and iBooks Author app for the Mac. Despite an assortment of criticisms coming from the media, Ted Landau’s bottom line assessment...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Macworld | iWorld Reinvents Itself
Last week, the curtain came up and revealed a reinvented Macworld. Even the name was new: Macworld | iWorld. From the exhibit hall to the technical sessions to the midway to the evening events, Ted...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Fix & Avoid CUI Crashes with Lion OS X...
Almost immediately after Apple released the Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update last week, some users began reporting a serious and anxiety-provoking consequence of the install: Every application on a Lion drive...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Ten Apps to Show Off the iPhone
What if you really wanted to impress somebody with how amazing an iPhone can be? If you were limited to showing off only ten third-party apps, which ten would you choose? These apps needn’t be the most...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Mountain Lion Does iOS-ification Right
If there was any doubt about the direction Apple intends to go with OS X, it has been erased. If OS X Lion (10.7) felt like a cloudy harbinger of what might be coming down the road, OS X Mountain Lion...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Of OS Wars & App Wars
A long time ago, in a tech galaxy far far away, the personal computer operating system war came to a close. The current mobile OS war is nearing a similar endpoint. Marketshare battles among...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: The New iPad: Not That Much but More Than...
The new iPad is here. Exactly how new is it? New enough that you should run out and buy one today? That depends. If you already own an iPad 2, there’s no need to hurry. Otherwise, it’s time to check...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: iPad Squashes Laptops on Way to World...
Can an iPad replace a MacBook? For some people, maybe, but not for everyone, at least not yet. Ted Landau argues that while we continue to witness tablets’ gradual but steady eclipsing of laptops,...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Are Apple Media Biased? Of Course
Are Apple news media biased? Do they slant Apple news more positively and more often than other media sources? Does the tone of their articles typically suggest rooting for Apple’s success? Are their...
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: The New iPad’s (Too?) Yellow Display
While much of the press has focused on whether the new iPad is “too hot to handle,” Ted Landau has been tracking another temperature matter: whether the colors of the new iPad’s display are too warm....
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View: AT&T’s Outrageous iPhone & iPad Rates
How many ways does AT&T overcharge its wireless customers? Every possible way. From text messaging to hot spots, AT&T’s rate plans are so inflated as to enter into the realm of the absurd....
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