Doing the rounds on Twitter today is a fantastic review posted by Larry Magid. It’s a review of a Mac, but with a difference—it’s a transcription of his take on the original Mac, which appeared in the LA Times on January 29, 1984. It’s easy to forget just how revolutionary the original Mac was compared to [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Analyst scared iPod touch might spell end to greed in videogames industry
Pocket Gamer reports analyst Michael Pachter has been at the scaremongering juice, topping it off with a stupid olive. He says: “I think the iPod touch is the most dangerous thing that ever happened to the publishers, ever,” and this is because when the price of Apple’s device drops, kids will want one instead of [...]
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Posted: October 16, 2009
By Craig Grannell in Apple, Gaming, News, Opinions, Technology
Kids need to be scared when watching movies, not bored
Last night I finally got round to watching the South Bank show on Pixar. Brad Bird was talking about how Disney during the 1980s and 1990s was petrified of having anything scary or exciting or racy in its animated movies. Over time, the highs and lows were removed, omitting emotive content and, in Bird’s words, [...]
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