Harry McCracken

Boy journalist. Bon vivant. Southpaw. Fast Company global technology editor.

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2023-09-07 16:13:45

I wrote about Polaroid's fancy new instant camera, whose emphasis on manual controls is a big shift from its recent models as well as almost all the cameras it made way back when. https://www.fastcompany.com/90948442/polaroid-i2-manual-instant-camera

2023-09-01 14:41:42

Huge if true.
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2023-09-01 10:11:44

I’m in Berlin for IFA, the CES of Europe.
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2023-08-30 16:37:13

I've used an iPad for almost precisely 12 years as my main computer. It's been a rewarding and productive experience. But for this week's newsletter, I wrote about the bittersweet side of caring so much about Apple's stewardship of its tablet platform. https://www.fastcompany.com/90945363/ipad-vs-mac-2023

2023-08-21 19:19:52

Everyone should read M. Mitchell Waldrop's The Dream Machine, an excellent book about J.C.R. Licklider, a top-level tech visionary who inspired all the other greats. https://www.fastcompany.com/90938713/satya-nadella-book-lists-jcr-licklider

2023-08-21 14:45:05

Working on my new Fast Company cover story on Satya Nadella, Microsoft, and AI reminded me that I wrote a Microsoft story back in 2012 that was never quite published. Here it is, with some backstory and bonus material. https://www.technologizer.com/2023/08/21/heres-my-unpublished-time-story-about-microsofts-windows-8-and-surface-from-2012/

2023-08-20 19:23:19

Sorry to hear this. The computer industry is so young that so many of its pioneering giants have still been with us. But that era is fading away. https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-warnock-dies-82-2023-08-20/

2023-08-15 01:26:44

I missed this piece by my colleague Jesus Diaz about Adobe's wonderful new logo, which it's inexplicably not using as a new logo. https://www.fastcompany.com/90915228/adobes-awesome-new-wordmark-is-not-its-new-logo-but-maybe-it-should-be

2023-08-15 01:26:36

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@npub1f2z…0tu2 The iPhone apps.

2023-08-14 06:55:02

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@npub1gzw…ekgz If there was a current one that was largely similar to the original except with Bluetooth and modern sensors, I'd wear it.

2023-08-14 06:54:03

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@npub1f2z…0tu2 I have two Garmins these days and like them both (but am not crazy about the apps).

2023-08-11 18:04:08

I loved the Jawbone Up and Misfit Ray, in part because I like to wear a conventional non-smartwatch. But they both seemed to have serious quality-control problems. https://www.theverge.com/23820207/fitness-bands-less-popular-wearables-smartwatches

2023-08-10 23:29:07

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@npub1prs…6e5a Living in the San Francisco area, I'm frequently reminded that an area can be devastated and come back.

2023-08-09 23:31:21

Awful news about a wonderful place. https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/much-of-lahaina-maui-destroyed-wildfires-18287496.php

2023-08-06 02:52:21

I’ve been listening to this on Audible. It’s a remarkably good business book. https://www.harpercollinsleadership.com/9781400225439/becoming-trader-joe/

2023-08-05 22:01:24

I’m at the Vintage Computer Festival West.
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2023-07-18 18:12:03

Except for a little bit of stuff in Cnet's proprietary Spinner CMS and a couple of years of Fast Company's old Drupal system--and one tiny site I hardcoded in a text editor--everything I've written for online consumption since 2008 has been in WordPress. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus

2023-07-18 01:28:58

Rate limits are the new social-networking hotness. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/the-spam-bots-have-now-found-threads-as-company-announces-its-own-rate-limits/

2023-07-12 17:44:19

This is unimaginable, and I feel guilty: I stopped buying Anchor Steam after they ditched their iconic labels for a dismal redesign, which felt like Coke getting rid of its logo. The worst San-Francisco-in-crisis news so far. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/anchor-brewing-company-ceasing-operations-18196509.php

2023-07-12 04:23:21

Google worked VERY hard to make Google+ work, and it didn't, because it wasn't in its wheelhouse and Facebook was so strong. Threads feels like second nature for Meta, and Twitter is damaged. It might do quite well with way less effort. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/technology/threads-zuckerberg-meta-google-plus.html

2023-07-12 02:12:51

Still don't understand the point of this message.
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2023-07-11 02:02:28

Instant photography is doing remarkably well for a business supposedly rendered obsolete years ago.
https://petapixel.com/2023/07/10/instax-continues-to-grow-and-is-one-of-fujifilms-most-valuable-product-lines/

2023-07-10 20:53:51

Breaking: Mark Zuckerberg's latest creation is really growing fast. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/

2023-07-10 00:37:42

I first covered Evernote on the day it was announced in 2004. Here's a piece from 2013, presented for the first time in its "here's what I actually wrote" form. https://www.technologizer.com/2023/07/09/for-your-eyes-only-my-unedited-2013-time-magazine-story-about-evernote/

2023-07-06 08:23:46

Sounds bizarre, but I'm glad they already moved the last standing Doggie Diner head, which I believe was originally on the land this monstrosity would occupy. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/outer-sunset-sf-50-story-tower-renderings-18185968.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

2023-06-07 01:56:15

I'm sorry to hear about the death of Astrud Gilberto, whose talent was so great and came off, at least, as so effortless. If you like bossa nova music—and you should, it's great—you'll enjoy this 23-minute concert of hers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36jVnKpC98

2023-06-06 04:31:47

I tried Apple Vision Pro. Unlike some VR/AR gear, it was much nester in a real demo than as a canned presentation on a flat screen. A recognizably polished Apple experience and easily the most sprawlingly ambitious thing Apple has shipped in the Cook era. More thoughts to come.

2023-05-29 06:00:06

This is the most uncanny example of Photoshop's new generative fill feature I've experienced so far.
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