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Hadley Stern bio

Founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief Hadley Stern is a designer, writer, and photographer residing in Boston. He has written for WebMonkey, American Photo magazine, and O’Reilly Media, and is the author of the O’Reilly book, ‘iPod and iTunes Hacks.’ Since graduating in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Hadley has worked as a professional designer at Malcolm Grear Designers, Rykodisc Records, and Razorfish. He has worked on corporate identity projects, CD packages, web sites, Flash banner advertising, and a wide variety of print collateral. His personal site is http://www.hadleystern.com.

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Articles by Hadley

Marketwise: 4 Reasons the iPad May Be More Like the iPod than the iPhone

What Apple has experienced with the iPhone and the iPod are two different inputs with two very different outputs. In fact, (read more)

Why I Won’t Switch From ATT

Us Apple users are a hardy lot, and we have a long memory as we should. After all, being a Mac (read more)

Apple Acquisition Targets: Part One: Netflix

Apple has a ridiculous amount of cash in the bank: 50 Billion or thereabouts. Historically, the company hasn't done large acquisitions (read more)

Apple TV 2.0: Still A Sucky Hobby

It took Apple the better part of 4 years to revise and release the latest Apple TV.  Almost 4 years to (read more)

Ping: Apple’s Dismal Foray into Social Media

Apple is a company renowned for the sheer intuitiveness of its products. The first Macintosh was a marvel in user experience. (read more)

The Future of the Mac Is the iPad

When the Macintosh team formed it was clear they were onto something special. So clear, in fact, that Steve Jobs attached (read more)

The iPhone Antenna “Issue”: FUD

fight FUD

FUD* is one of those wonderful technology terms that is thrown around quite a bit, although not by this author. But (read more)

What Next for OS X?

I still remember, with fondness, the first time I installed the OS X Public beta sometime back in 2000. It was (read more)

3 Ways Apple Can Trounce the Droids

I can understand and respect Steve Job's frustration with Android. Many a person has observed that everything is all sped up (read more)

Apple’s Reasons Behind No Flash: 75% Smartphone Marketshare

The recent hoopla over the iPhone is one of the more interesting developments in Apple's history. With Apple there has always (read more)

Blog Entries

Feed Issues fixed

Apologies to everyone who has had issues recently with the Apple Matters rss feed. I have found the bug and fixed (read more)

Think Secret To Continue?

The demise of Think Secret is a fascinating story and because of the multiple legal documents in place so many questions (read more)

Apple Introduces Final Cut Server

Complete Asset Management & Workflow Automation for Final Cut Studio 2

NAB, LAS VEGAS, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) today introduced Final Cut(R) (read more)

Apple Inc. and The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. Enter into New Agreement

CUPERTINO, California and LONDON—Apple® Inc. and The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd. are pleased to announce the parties have entered into (read more)

iTunes Store Tops Two Billion Songs, 50 Million TV Shows & Over 1.3 Million Movies Sold

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 (read more)

Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme with 802.11n

Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme with 802.11n: Five Times the Performance & Twice the Range

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) (read more)

Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) today introduced iPhone, combining three products-a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod(R) with touch controls, (read more)

Apple Introduces the New iPod

Hollywood Movies, Games & New Lower Price

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/—Apple(R) today introduced the new
iPod(R), the best digital music (read more)

Apple Announces iTunes 7 With Amazing New Features

Disney, Pixar, Touchstone & Miramax Movies Now Available on the iTunes Store

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) today announced iTunes(R) 7, (read more)

Apple iMac Line Now Features Intel Core 2 Duo Processors in Every Model

Pricing Now Starts at Just $999; New 24-inch Model Added

CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Apple(R) today announced that its entire iMac(R) (read more)