Articles by Mike Cane

The Zero-Gravity Toilet Of Adobe DRMed ePub

2 November, 2016 // 14 Comments

Editor's Note: Mike Cane originally wrote this post way back in 2008. I am reposting it in 2016 because even though eight years have passed, the problem still exists. Earlier today Mike Cane pointed [Read More ...]

Samsung Milk VR: Gone

21 March, 2016 // 3 Comments

Guest column: Mike Cane has a few words to say about Samsung's VR headset, Milk, and its ability to tell a story. I stopped by the flagship Samsung showcase in NYC again this weekend. I specifically [Read More ...]

Amazon: Poisoning The Tablet Well

1 December, 2015 // 21 Comments

Record Weekend for Amazon Devices—Up 3x Over Last Year, with Millions of Devices Sold The new $49.99 Fire tablet is the fastest-selling Amazon tablet ever, with millions sold since launch — [Read More ...]

iPad Sales Continue To Fall: I Blame Tim Cook

28 October, 2015 // 16 Comments

Apple sees iPhone sales grow 22.1% to 48M in Q4 2015, but iPad sales declined 19.5% Those considering buying iPads, however, were likely trying to figure out if they want the new iPad Pro or even the [Read More ...]

Snooty Snobs Should Shut Up

7 June, 2014 // 21 Comments

Against YA: Read whatever you want. But you should feel embarrassed when what you’re reading was written for children. The more I thought about that, the more pissed-off I got so I had to do this [Read More ...]

Xiaomi: A Company Obscured By Language

16 May, 2014 // 5 Comments

Reuters has an interview with the founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun. (Editor's note: The interview was conducted last year, but Mike found it earlier this week.) Here are some choice excerpts: We’re [Read More ...]

The Self-Pub “Shit Volcano” Will End

5 February, 2014 // 29 Comments

A lot of words spilled in two posts: Slushy Glut Slog: Why The Self-Publishing Shit Volcano Is A Problem — which the people who are the problem will never think they’re the problem. Why the [Read More ...]

The Nook RT Lives. But Nook Is Dead.

10 January, 2014 // 22 Comments

Multiple reports out of China — which should be considered official leaks from Microsoft because that’s how the Chinese roll — indicate that the long-rumored Nook RT is still coming [Google [Read More ...]

The Amazon Drone: Thunderbird 2 2.0

3 December, 2013 // 13 Comments

In the 1960s TV series, Thunderbirds, there was a vehicle called Thunderbird 2. It was a heavy transport carrier and used a variety of pods to deliver the appropriate equipment to a rescue site. The [Read More ...]

Agent Andrew Wylie Shits On Readers And Writers

9 October, 2013 // 8 Comments

With his “carefully crossed ankles” — deliberate, I’m sure, because his ass is still hurting from the buttfuck Random House gave him — snob agent Andrew Wylie frankly tells the world what [Read More ...]

The Incredibly Stupid Thing Amazon Does

4 October, 2013 // 13 Comments

Steven Troughton-Smith has got me to thinking about the Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet. And when I ruminate about something, I mentally replay all that I’ve seen and read in my head. And what popped up [Read More ...]

Nook Media: A Sinking Ship

25 June, 2013 // 17 Comments

The Barnes & Noble investor conference call this morning was one for the, um, books. It was short, lasting about forty minutes, had few questions — none of which were hard-hitting — and was [Read More ...]

Who’s After the dotBOOK Top Level Domain

11 March, 2013 // 2 Comments

Editor's Note: In light of the recent round of complaints about Amazon filing for the book TLD, I thought it might be useful to repost this old nugget. Dave Winer’s post caught my attention and my [Read More ...]

The Changes Nook Media Must Make

28 February, 2013 // 26 Comments

The first move Barnes & Noble (aka Nook Media) needs to make is to alert app developers that they will be closing their Nook App Store. It was foolish of them to even create that. They got off [Read More ...]

Samsung Kills The Seven-Inch Tablet Category It Created

26 January, 2013 // 23 Comments

If you’ve forgotten, they pioneered that size with the original Galaxy Tab. SamMobile confirmed: Tab 3 7.0” dropped, new tablets upcoming Samsung is going to drop the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and Samsung [Read More ...]

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