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Stephen Fry Profiles the iPad and Steve Jobs for Time Magazine
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Absolutely true, but when you start with a Windows core, you've already gone wrong. But I'll bet a lot of money Microsoft won't get multitouch right all the way through the system. It will be a surface thing, but when you dig down it'll be same old Windows as before. It's not enough to bolt on a touch front-end and hope for the best.
I gotta say, I'm not digging Bizarro World April Fools' *LTD*.
I've had to read all his posts twice today just to make sure
But lots of jazzy page transitions. Lots.
(I'm still bemused by the inexplicable hype and chatter over Windows 7 Phone Series - it looks like UI purgatory to me.)
Crooked Pictures
Here's why the pictures are crooked: CSS3 applied to the img tag:
-moz-transform:rotate(0.5deg);
Must be an April fools joke.
Here's why the pictures are crooked: CSS3 applied to the img tag:
-moz-transform:rotate(0.5deg);
Must be an April fools joke.
I gotta say, I'm not digging Bizarro World April Fools' *LTD*.
Ah, that's why *LTD* is acting this way. Didn't think of the April 1 connection.
That said, he is correct. Apple couldn't compete with Microsoft so they made a conscious decision to go in a different direction. Instead of the boring beige boxes of the Apple 90s, they decided to compete on the high end consumer market. Let Microsoft have the race-to-the-bottom boring box market share in the business community, Apple would dominate the high-end consumer market.
And now they do.
I agree. I also think that implying meeting SJ is somehow better than PMs of the world and multiple Presidents is way over the top. Here is a guy who invents electronics and on the other hand are people that at the flip of a switch could destroy the entire world. Yeah, the electronics guy makes me so much more nervous. Whatever, get some real perspective.
Fixed your quote. The vast majority of the population are not using Acer, HP, GM, Ford, Toyota, Sony, LG, or even Microsoft products either. Does that mean that they all have failed? No. The idea behind targeting the largest market is to gain the largest pool of potential buyers. If you do that, your product can be successful even if you only capture a small fraction of that market.
"One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker's Guide that humankind has yet devised."
loved that part
Sometimes I like to think of Stephen Fry as Douglas Adams representative on Earth. It's not difficult to imagine DA writing this article.
loved that part
Sometimes I like to think of Stephen Fry as Douglas Adams representative on Earth. It's not difficult to imagine DA writing this article.
I got that "magical" feeling when I first used my iPod touch. You're holding the device in your hand, you're using it directly with your fingers.
I had a weird feeling when using a mouse after using my iPod touch. I felt "disconnected" from the computer. I move a device with my hand to move a pointer on a screen, there's no "connection", similar to using a robotic arm to do daily tasks instead of using my own arms.
We don't think about it because we're used to mouses and cursors, but the disconnect is there nonetheless.
I had a weird feeling when using a mouse after using my iPod touch. I felt "disconnected" from the computer. I move a device with my hand to move a pointer on a screen, there's no "connection", similar to using a robotic arm to do daily tasks instead of using my own arms.
We don't think about it because we're used to mouses and cursors, but the disconnect is there nonetheless.
All that aside, there are only 4 paragraphs about Steve jobs, nothing which is really interesting or haven't heard before. The front cover and the online article just have images of Steve. I kind of expected more about him.
Fixed your sentence structure there.
You do know Oscar Wilde use to molest children right?
Fixed your sentence structure there.
You do know Oscar Wilde use to molest children right?
Disagree. See the comments made by many of the ex-Microsoft employees saying how Office was going to go touch for a tablet market but that the Office director resisted the idea.
Microsoft is a backwards company that doesn't make it's divisions talk to themselves. Hence you get half baked, half working stuff. Except the Entertainment division, to a point.
I've thought the same thing. I think two apps I want to buy are a HHGttG app for my iPad and a PADD app.
I'm not planning on buying an iPad because I can't really see how I would use it. However, if someone makes a PADD UI App for it I will be at the Apple store within moments.
The same would happen if the BBC made a HHGttG App that talked. And a babelfish.
In next week's issue, "A Million Ways Obama Loves You (And Me)" by Joe Klein, and "George Bush's Covert War on Kittens."
Journalism died long ago. It's all just entertainment now (on both sides of the political fence).
Thomas Edison
After reading the Time piece and the Inhatko piece it really does strike me that Steve Jobs is the Thomas Edison of our time.
And I am sick with lust for the 3G iPad that I've already ordered. Why oh why am I a hopeless Apple Fanboy???
After reading the Time piece and the Inhatko piece it really does strike me that Steve Jobs is the Thomas Edison of our time.
And I am sick with lust for the 3G iPad that I've already ordered. Why oh why am I a hopeless Apple Fanboy???
It seems only half the Xbox 360s worked, so apparently your point extends to the Entertainment division as well.
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