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Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes

By tim, on March 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of FT.Com, shortly after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the FT web app won an award for “Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing”.

I was interested in speaking to Grimshaw for two reasons.

First, the FT is a publication which has successfully managed the transition from

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Apple’s Mac App Store – and the forgotten Windows Marketplace

By tim, on January 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple launched the Mac App Store yesterday and I had a look this morning. It is only available to users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, where it comes with the latest system update.

It is interesting that Apple has not used iTunes for the App Store, but has developed new client software. Maybe

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First impressions of Google TV – get an Apple iPad instead?

By tim, on December 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I received a Google TV as an attendee at the Adobe MAX conference earlier this year; to be exact, a Logitech Revue. It is not yet available or customised for the UK, but with its universal power supply and standard HDMI connections it works OK, with some caveats.

The main snag with my evaluation is

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iTunes hacks: whose fault are they?

By tim, on July 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

A big story today concerns irregular activity on Apple’s iTunes store, the one and only means of purchasing applications for iPhone and iPad and central to the company’s strategy. The reports allege that developers are hacking iTunes accounts to purchase and give favourable review to their apps – which can only be a short term

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Reviewing the Logitech Squeezebox Touch

By tim, on June 1st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I found time over the long weekend to review the Logitech Squeezebox Touch. It’s a great gadget, which I like better the more I play with it, though it has flaws. I also suspect that Logitech’s marketing does not do it justice.

Most people look to Apple’s iTunes when they make the transition from CDs

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iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases

By tim, on May 27th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Spare a thought for iTunes user Peter Bilderback. His account was hacked and someone downloaded almost a $1000 worth of items from the iTunes store using his account. Bad stuff, but it happens. Bilderback wonders why Apple did not query the purchase of iPhone apps, when it knew that he had no iPhone – you

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Apple’s lock-in works. Can anyone improve on App Store?

By tim, on January 28th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Timothy B Lee writes of the App Store/iPhone and now iPad lock-in:

The store is an unnecessary bottleneck in the app development process that limits the functionality of iPhone applications and discourages developers from adopting the platform.

While instinctively I agree, the evidence for the damaging effect of the App Store is not there. On

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