Quiet-ish fortnight, which after Heartbleed feels like a spa day.
The rumor mill says Apple is about to buy Beats, the headphone company, for $3 billion. Apple doesn’t do big acquisitions, so everyone’s confused: is it the headphones? The streaming service? Jimmy Iovine’s rolodex? Dre would become hip-hop’s first billionaire, which is the only part of the deal everyone agrees is great.
At work we’re rebuilding our mobile web app because the data came in: 51% of our traffic is now phones. Phones. When I started three years ago it was 28%. The desktop web is becoming the B-side while nobody watches. Responsive design has gone from “nice to have” to “the job.”
Playoffs update: the Sterling ban came down, lifetime. Commissioner Silver, one week into a crisis, decisive. Leadership case study confirmed.
TIL: touch targets need to be 44 pixels. Our mobile buttons were 28px of pure user hostility. Also viewport meta tags, and that testing on a real cheap Android phone is humbling in ways the Chrome device emulator will never be.