The “How the Collapse of CD Sales Crashed the Music Industry” YouTube hosts make a good point that nobody bothers with band member names anymore. When did we stop taking […]
Mobile Transit
JR Shinkansen ticket disinformation
When westerners first visited Edo, soon to be renamed Tokyo, most of them looked down on local fire fighters as backward and ill-equipped for the job. Only a few took […]
Mobile Transit
Hiroshima dumps proprietary PASPY FeliCa transit card…for a different kind of proprietary FeliCa transit card
Talk about back tracking. When Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.,Ltd. (Hiroden) announced in March 2022 that they were replacing the FeliCa based Hiroshima region proprietary PASPY transit card with QR Code […]
Japanese Typography
Safari 17.4 Vertical Writing Modes won’t change a thing
WebKit got a significant upgrade with Safari 17.4 in the iOS 17.4/macOS 14.4 update. One new feature is Vertical Writing Modes, a new form control element that is part of […]
Apple
The Steve Jobs difference
The iPhone and iPod development stories and how they changed Apple are well known but I’ve enjoyed watching the NO WIRES: How the Apple Airport Changed Everything YouTube video posted […]
Apple
The forking of iOS
iOS 17.4 is here, and with it comes an end to the iPhone business model that Steve Jobs envisioned. As the studio execs of golden age Hollywood used to say, […]