Scrabble schmabble: Just bad app design!

I love scrabble. I hate Scrabble. I started playing Scrabulous on Facebook, what?, three years ago? Then Hasbro/Mattel stepped in and objected to Scrabulous because it was too close to their board game, Scrabble, to which they owned (jointly, through different licensing arrangements) indisputable rights to market and distribute (between them worldwide). Scrabulous was changed to be Lexulous and the board was changed to different colors, different size and different letter distribution and points. But I kept playing it with my friends and still do. One of those friends, however, decided to move on to the licensed and approved Scrabble app on the iPad. I followed her about a month ago. That’s what leads…

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Overnight Embark on the USS John C. Stennis

Our partnership had one of the coolest experiences ever when we got a rare opportunity to spend a night on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the John C. Stennis. Six of us gathered with 11 other guests at the Coronado Naval Air Base in May, and were flown out to the carrier in a COD (Carrier Onboard Delivery), a cargo airplane designed to land on and take off from aircraft carriers. We flew about 100 miles off the California coast on Tuesday and returned the next day after 26 hours on the carrier, during which time the ship engaged in a training exercise preparing the crew to deploy in the Persian Gulf in July….

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How long will Macintosh be with us?

I’m not the first one to say this: it seems logical that Apple will eventually end-of-life the Macintosh. Erik Sherman does a deep dive here that outlines the logic for de-emphasizing the Macintosh and eventually turning it off. And Dan Lyons (AKA Fake Steve Jobs) does a comic job on the topic here. What’s really interesting is to think through what this means for the future of the iComputers: iPhone, iTouch, iPad, and whatever else Apple might introduce. Here’s a preview of the iTV Apple will introduce in 2015: That’s actually a Samsung 54-inch LED television, but can you imagine what Apple might do once it can produce a screen that big? Apart from…

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