Well, maybe I did…In my original post, from almost exactly one year ago, and which is basically a visceral reaction to a phone conversation I had w/Caples’ and his stubborn arrogance about the services superiority, I make the following points (I’m paraphrasing myself here):
Posts under ‘Geek’
Graphic Designers Hate eBooks and the Kindle.
I can understand why graphic designers would hate eBooks. After having spent years honing PageMaker, Quark or InDesing skills, you now have to re-shape that set into a Kindle or iBook format, or grow new skill limbs for even developing your own eBook reader apps…However, IMHO, a talented designer is a talented designer, and that sensibility is hard to come by…I would rather have design sensibility than Flash skills and I would cite, Jim Coudal/Coudal Partners, and they might disagree, as one of the best examples of a team that has evolved from that neighborhood of near straight-up graphic design, into something more.
Optical is Dead: I’m Talking to You Blu-ray.
I’ve been quietly responding to questions from friends, for about 3 years time now, that Blu-Ray was dead on arrival. The victim of at least a 2 year delay to market resulting from a Beta vs. VHS like industry dispute. This historic lesson having been apparently unlearned by the major manufacturers, it was compounded by increased broadband infrastructure and delivery of video content via stream or file either at no charge = Hulu.com…Or at no additional charge; examples include your Netflix subscription via laptop, other device like your Wii, PS3, Xbox, Roku or dare I say your Comcast/DirecTV/Dish set top box using on-demand or time-shifting DVRs.
iPhone OS 4.0 Event Today – Take the Hit Now or Keep the Momentum Going?
With the iPhone OS 4.0 event today…I’m betting on some nice new features. Odds are low on the Verizon or iPhone HD announcements, although that would be nice…And I expect Steve to intro Scott Forestall who will do most of the talking…but you never know…one last thing may show up…
Bouv’s Apple Tablet Round Up – Why the Splashy Color Invite?
[Apple's invite image for 1.27.10 ] In just over a week, on January 27th at 1PM EST at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco to be exact, Apple may end literally years of speculation surrounding their creation of a tablet-style consumer device. Will it be a full-fledged computer? An e-Book reader? A giant iPhone with video conference capabilities? I have some thoughts…
Microsloth Leading the Sheep to the Slaughter – “Look, we have stores too!”
Microsloth, in yet another un-original move, has opened their own retail presence.
Congratulations, that’s 1000 stolen business plans! Most people who inhabit the spaces that will contain the stores may become confused when they purchase their computer from a Microsoft store, and then accidentally wander into an Apple store looking for support…oh well…
Google Wave Invites Today: Fingers Crossed!
Read Write Web is reporting that Google will send out 100,000 Google Wave invites to an undisclosed qualified subset of the roughly 1,000,000 folks who had signed up for one…I was one of those folks, I’m hoping to be included in that subset…anyway…I also posted about Lars and Jens keynote…and the potential impact of the tool…
Palm to drop Windows Mobile *Yawn*
iPhone Central is reporting smartphone maker Palm will stop delivering and developing Windows Mobile for its products.
Wait for it.
Final Cut Editors: Final Cut Users Groups Network – Super Meet Issue #3
Hey all you FCP editors out there…The Final Cut Pro User Groups Network has just issued the Super Meet Mag issue # 3:
http://www.fcpugnetwork.org/supermag/2009/index.html
