The day had finally come, the day Apple was releasing the Apple Watch. I had arranged for it to arrive at my sister’s house in New York and I convinced my brother-in law David, to come visit and bring the watch straight to Israel. The UPS man arrived with the delivery at 11AM. By 5PM David had boarded his ELAL flight for Israel.
The flight started like any other– dinner, movies, and a nap. Then, suddenly in the middle of the night, the plane was hit by lightning while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. David felt the plane lurched forward…
The problem we all have to deal with at some time or another
Over the past 30 years, since the release of the first mass market personal computer, Apple “Macintosh” computers have consistently needed more and more storage to run and to save increasingly larger amounts of information. Back in 1984, when the Macintosh was first introduced, it only had 128 Kilobytes of storage. That is why the first Macintosh was dubbed the “Macintosh 128K”.
Here are the basic measurements of computer storage (in size order, from smaller to largest): Bit > Byte > Kilobyte > Megabyte > Gigabyte > Terabyte and Petabyte. On the first Macs, the smallest files you dealt with…
The Digital Goods Conundrum. I love the digital goods I get today. Be it music, TV shows, movies in iTunes, an app on the App Store, or a book in iBooks. Ever since I began amassing these digital goods, I have used my dad’s store account. Of course I ask my father for permission before I purchase something. Normally he says “Yes”, when the purchase is $1-2 dollars. Though sometimes he says “No”. But there is a fundamental problem with this system.
When I get a little older, the music, TV shows & apps that I purchased on my father’s…
Eytan Schulman
I make apps. iOS / watchOS / tvOS / macOS developer. WWDC Scholar 2014, 2015 & 2016. Gamer. Ping Me! me@eytan.co
