Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no clothes. And ultimately this is what’s so infuriating about Apple: that’s not what happens. Ever. The critics are eternally playing the part of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, and Steve Jobs always yanks it away at the last second. Nobody talks about making a “Nexus One killer” or an “HP Slate killer” or a “Zune killer”; Apple’s consumer electronics products become the reference points for their fields.
Jake Grimley
30-something Web developer based in Birmingham, England. Managing Director of Made Media Ltd.
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2010-07-29
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2010-07-23
stick of rock acquired for Jana. brumward bound.
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In Blackpool. a lovely sunny day. calm sea. eating fish and chips with mushy peas. no gravy though. that would be taking it too far.
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2010-07-22
Aargh - am in the quiet zone again sitting next to a quiet zone Nazi. No wonder the queue for this carriage was shorter.
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Srsly this new phone is so much better for bombing around London with. speedy, compass, battery barely touched. Can even phone people.
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2010-07-21
Our new site for “London’s coolest theatre” is now live: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com Props to @primeobjectives for the texture shots.
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2010-07-20
Royal Court Theatre
If things have been a bit quiet around here recently, it’s because we’ve been flat out working on a new clutch of websites. Made’s been working on the new Royal Court Theatre for a…
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2010-07-16
Required Reading
Don’t usually go for this sort of thing, but a lot of these are right on the money.
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2010-07-15
I wasn’t familiar with the code when I opened it, so I assumed the interior white space came from padding on the container. I wanted to add an “admin” checkbox below the user info on the right, and I expected it to align flush left with the name and email. But that’s not what happened.
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Styling for change with rules and exceptions - (37signals)
This sort of thing used to do my head in constantly. Back in the days when I still did code, and a certain someone seemed to pad every element individually as some kind of depraved box-model workaround.
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2010-07-14
A particularly laboured labour of love has just left the Made stable. We’ll announce shortly; meantime a few drinks may be drunk tonight.
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2010-07-09
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In Cardiff. Quite nice.
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2010-07-08
Still at work. Eating Pizza. Drinking Beer. This is what happens when my better half goes away. On the bright side: issue list shrinking…
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Just been invaded by a load of local yoot, for our latest usability study. Very well mannered. Declined my offer to go on a Sunny D run.
