Hypercritical

Archive

2024

The iMessage Halo Effect – February 9, 2024
Spatial Computing – January 30, 2024
I Made This – January 11, 2024

2023

Apple’s Blue Ocean – October 29, 2023
The Plumber Problem – August 18, 2023
Hypercritical T-Shirts Return – July 12, 2023
Destiny Music Videos – February 5, 2023

2022

SwitchGlass 2.0 – October 25, 2022
Frame Game – April 25, 2022
Independence Day – March 30, 2022
Streaming App Sentiments – February 17, 2022
An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec – February 15, 2022

2020

Good Products – August 31, 2020
The Art of the Possible – June 20, 2020
SwitchGlass – February 12, 2020
Sorting My TV – January 29, 2020
Front and Center – January 8, 2020

2019

Top Gun – August 8, 2019
Jony Ive – July 4, 2019
Great Games – March 1, 2019

2018

Hypercritical T-Shirts Return – June 15, 2018

2016

The Last Guardian – December 18, 2016
Canonical Bagel Flavors – April 22, 2016

2015

OS X Reviewed – April 15, 2015

2014

About My Yosemite Review – October 16, 2014
Creativity, Inc. – April 27, 2014
Macintosh – January 24, 2014
The Road to Geekdom – January 14, 2014
Apple’s 2013 Scorecard – January 2, 2014

2013

Fill Your TV – December 22, 2013
About My Mavericks Review – October 22, 2013
Nintendo in Crisis – September 2, 2013
Hypercritical T-Shirts 2.0 – June 20, 2013
Next Generation – May 28, 2013
Hypercritical T-Shirts – May 6, 2013
Beauty, Truth, and Jony Ive – May 3, 2013
The Lottery – April 26, 2013
Code Hard or Go Home – April 12, 2013
Technological Conservatism – April 7, 2013
Self-Reliance – March 19, 2013
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor – March 8, 2013
Fear of a WebKit Planet – March 4, 2013
Annoyance-Driven Development – February 24, 2013
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – February 8, 2013
Apple’s 2013 To-Do List – February 2, 2013
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale – January 25, 2013
CES: Worse Products Through Software – January 7, 2013

2012

Strange Game – November 27, 2012
About My Mountain Lion Review – July 25, 2012
Better Pasta – February 15, 2012
Highlights from 2011 – January 7, 2012

2011

Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance – October 5, 2011
The Apple Strategy Tax – March 2, 2011
Summer Movies: 1982 – January 2, 2011

2010

Apple’s trouble with TV – September 2, 2010
Papermaster – August 8, 2010
Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market – August 5, 2010
iPhone 4 antenna: unanswered questions, unearned trust – July 17, 2010
Apple’s wager – April 12, 2010
Black Hole Sun – April 11, 2010
No Movie for Old Men – March 15, 2010
Obama’s Teleprompter – February 7, 2010
Antacid tablet – January 1, 2010

2009

Metadata madness – September 23, 2009
Hypercritical – May 6, 2009
Ars Technica announces its last year of Macworld keynote bingo – January 3, 2009

2008

Fearless – December 17, 2008
Straight out of Compton – September 2, 2008
Snowed out – June 9, 2008
WWDC 2008 keynote bingo – June 5, 2008
Rhapsody and blues – April 3, 2008
Can’t help falling in love – March 7, 2008
Knee-deep in the dead – February 3, 2008
Great. Expectations. – January 12, 2008
MWSF 2008 keynote bingo – January 7, 2008

2007

Stuck on the enterprise – August 9, 2007
Let a million iPhones bloom – July 2, 2007
A sort of homecoming – July 1, 2007
Bingo Blues – July 1, 2007
WWDC 2007 keynote bingo – June 8, 2007
The Frontier – June 4, 2007
The Message – January 20, 2007
Some kind of “world” anyway… – January 11, 2007
MWSF 2007 keynote bingo – January 7, 2007

2006

Game over, man – December 22, 2006
Top Secret – November 20, 2006
It’s-a me! (again) – November 5, 2006
Next Generation – October 22, 2006
Open Apple – October 12, 2006
LLVM and OpenGL revisited – August 22, 2006
Time Machine and the future of the file system – August 17, 2006
Bingo bust – August 9, 2006
Can't stop the bingo! – July 29, 2006
Shuffled WWDC keynote bingo cards – July 25, 2006
WWDC keynote bingo – July 23, 2006
Free WWDC – July 21, 2006
A hard look at L4 in Leopard – June 21, 2006
A kernel of truth: the plot thickens – June 19, 2006
A kernel of truth – June 18, 2006
And we all shine on – May 16, 2006
The garbage man cometh – May 6, 2006
Selling the Mac – May 2, 2006
ZFS on Mac OS X – April 27, 2006
Declaration of resolution-independence – April 23, 2006
Wanted: analog dragon slayer – April 20, 2006
Boot Camp – April 8, 2006
Waiting for the handheld revolution – March 13, 2006
Poor pickers proliferate – March 12, 2006
Apple versus the analog monster – March 4, 2006
Paths in the grass – February 19, 2006
Finding Leopard – January 27, 2006
What a Guy – January 5, 2006
Aperture ascendant – January 2, 2006

2005

You have failed me for the last time, Aspyr – December 10, 2005
ZFS data integrity explained – December 9, 2005
Avoiding Copland 2010: Hints of things to come? – December 4, 2005
Who’s minding the store? – November 21, 2005
Strange game – November 13, 2005
The case for RAID – November 5, 2005
Night of the living xMac – October 30, 2005
Empire – October 22, 2005
Think cautious – October 16, 2005
Pre-show paralysis – October 7, 2005
Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 3 – October 3, 2005
Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 2 – September 30, 2005
Avoiding Copland 2010 – September 27, 2005
Dear Mac game developers – September 23, 2005
The Apple product cycle, variation 2 – September 21, 2005
Inside the Revolution controller (maybe) – September 16, 2005
You say you got a real solution – September 16, 2005
The state of Mac web browsing – September 12, 2005
Be careful what you wish for – September 12, 2005