If this is the future then the future needs a little work.

The Verge’s Tom Warren says “Microsoft Office for iPad will be unveiled this month.”

Time has an interview with Jony Ive and Jeff Carlson asks “Why Do Big Magazines Hire Hacks for Big Tech Stories”:

I really do wish I knew why such high-profile, information-rich interview opportunities like this one are squandered by big magazines.

The interview is Ive’s words wrapped in the usual suspects of conventional wisdom about Apple, including the obligatory religious metaphors. John Arlidge writes:

When Ive sees customers queueing overnight to buy the latest iPhone, does he worry that we have become too obsessed with the latest “this” or “that”, that we are genuflecting at the altar of technology? A phone is just a phone, not the second coming of Christ.

When Christ returns, Arlidge believes, the reaction will be for people to “queue overnight” to see him. Sound like the Apocalypse is really going to be something.

As Reuters reports, they don’t know the joy of Microsoft Office. Because of Microsoft.

Tired of waiting for Office to be optimized for their mobile gadgets, a growing contingent of younger companies is turning to cheaper, simpler and touch-friendly apps that can perform word processing and other tasks in the cloud.

I look forward to more Officesplainin’ from the people who still think it’s the biggest thing ever.

(Via MacRumors)

This week’s episode of Turning This Car Around looks at education. Homework, tests, math and other curricular activities.

Robert Pogson on the GnuTLS Linux bug (via Katherine Noyes):

Imagine how long that bug could have survived if the source code had not been available to gazillions of users… Better late than never.

Time to catch the goto fail bug in iOS and OS X: 18 months and 6 months respectively.

Time to catch the GnuTLS bug in Linux: 10 years.

(Again, see my appropriate caveats about me not claiming Apple’s security policy is better here.)

(ADDENDUM: This post originally stated it was only 6 months until the goto fail bug was caught. However, in the case of iOS it was introduced in September of 2012.)

Craig Hockenberry dismantles the “iWatch”:

You don’t need a computer on your wrist. Apple’s wearable devices will become a part of this circle that surrounds your main device. And as with CarPlay, it’s going to be a two-way street where interactions and information in the player make their way back to the main device.

I don’t know about his speculation, but his deconstruction of the watch concept and subsequent analysis is worth ten times the Wall Street estimates of the size of the “iWatch market”.

I wasn’t really paying much attention to this issue before but it seems like it’s actually gotten worse in 7.1. Which is kind of funny. Which is why I’m paying attention to it now.

Rolling Stone interviews Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen. I personally could not stand the game but I do have a lot of respect for its creator:

But the hardest thing of all, he says, was something else entirely. He hands me his iPhone so that I can scroll through some messages he’s saved. One is from a woman chastising him for “distracting the children of the world.” Another laments that “13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it’s addicting like crack.” Nguyen tells me of e-mails from workers who had lost their jobs, a mother who had stopped talking to her kids. “At first I thought they were just joking,” he says, “but I realize they really hurt themselves.” Nguyen – who says he botched tests in high school because he was playing too much Counter-Strike – genuinely took them to heart.

A game maker who thinks about the impact of what he creates? More like this, please.

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

Seriously, that is not an OK reason to hate me.