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Alan Patrick

What Apple did right with the iPhone

March 6, 2009

Alan Patrick sums it up nicely: “In fact its indicative of the industry’s malaise that Apple made such a big splash by making a phone that merely “did” the ‘Net easily, loaded applications quickly, and had a decent size screen. Hardly revolutionary technology, but they came as a shock to the mobile industry. Putting the [...]

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Cloud computing makes me nervous

August 6, 2008

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but cloud computing makes me nervous. I remember the Apple "1984" ad not just because it was a great piece of work by Ridley Scott, but also because of its underlying message. And that message was simple: monolithic computer systems supplied by monolithic suppliers aren’t a good idea for individuals. [...]

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Quote of the day

June 13, 2008

From Alan Patrick. “Dave Winer may love his River of News, but time starved people would rather have a thinner Stream of Relevance”

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