Top Stories published by The Constant in 2011

The 5by5 James Bond Anthology

Last January 12, 2011, Dan Benjamin and John Gruber kicked off a new section in their successful podcast “The Talk Show”.

The mission: watch the James Bond film series, one movie a week, in chronological order, take notes and comment on the matter…


The Apple Store Concept

Interesting collection of quotes (here) by Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson (Apple’s Senior VP of Retail) regarding Apple Retail. Several key ideas in these statements throw some light on the concept, experience and strategy for the Apple Stores.


Windows 8 UI demo (video)

A first look at the new Windows 8 user interface (video below).
The Windows Phone 7 OS has some interesting stuff UI-wise, and I’m glad Microsoft is working to adapt it to a tablet environment. However, It’s amazing that Microsoft keeps insisting on using the taskbar and other…


Mac App Store — The Launch effect

The Mac App Store launch effect, tasted in first hand by Evernote. Bear in mind that Evernote is a free app. Nevertheless, according to Evernote’s Phil Libin (in the article’s comments), in over 100K app downloads, 40K accounts for new Mac users (around double of everything else). Impressive.

These were the top 10 stories published by The Constant in 2011. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2011 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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