Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.

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Tue Feb 2

The reality-distortion field of Steve Jobs & his aides strikes back. If you enjoyed the iPhone version you’re surely going to enjoy the iPad installment.

For the bookworms: this technique behind this brainwashing leading to side-effects like Apple fanboyism (fanboyedom?) is called NLP.

[via bodypainter99]

Thu Jan 28

“They didn’t build a smaller computer. They built a bigger iPod. I don’t need a bigger iPod.” - DeWitt Clinton

Fully agree!

Regarding this edited picture, no you cannot run 4 applications simultaneously. There’s still no possibility in iPhone OS (used for iPad as well) which sucks.

Does that fact alone prove it’s harder to add such core feature to a mature OS (while keeping the user experience standards) than it is to design and tweak hardware (which I doubt)? Or does it proves Apple doesn’t want yet the armies of its fans fans to share their attention among multiple beautiful apps?

[via Gawker]

Mon Oct 5

Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple

If you haven’t heard of Steve Jobs’ reality-distortion field you’re lucky cause this is the best and shortest introduction into the subject.

[via justanotherguy84]

Mon Nov 24

Is there such a thing as pure genius?

This article over at Guardian is an excerpt from “Outliers - The Story of Success”, the new book from Malcolm Gladwell, my favorite pattern-seeker, a.k.a. the author of best-selling books “The Tipping Point” and “Blink”.

The book is an account and analysis of people we tend to consider outstanding, if not geniuses - people like Mozart, The Beatles, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, Eric Schmidt.

Shortly put, the raw, uncut and untrained/unpracticed talent alone is not sufficient to be successful and remarkably good at something. What it takes is a combination of hidden advantages, extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies (a.k.a. “the right person at the right place at the time”) that allow them to work hard and makes sense of the world in ways other people cannot. The key is working hard.

Malcolm Gladwell’s book seems to gravitate around 10.000 hours of hard work as a break-even point when you cease being (just) very good and start being brilliant at something. As a matter of fact, researchers seem to agree about this number being a pre-requisite to brilliance. With good timing a few lucky breaks, mind you. :-)

Thu Feb 28

Meet the masters of hype, Apple Inc.

This is how it should be done. This is how hype should be created. This is how you get faithful followers.

First, it (called SDK) was announced by Steve Jobs for February 2008. Ever since, it has been widely and wildly anticipated by religious hordes of Appleists.

Usually, Feburary has 29 days in a leap year. Year 2008 will be special because it will have 35 days because of the “Apple event confirmed for March 6th for the “iPhone software roadmap”. [via Engadget]

iPhone software roadmap

I can see fingerprints of Steve’s RDF (reality distortion field for the unitiated) all over this. Why call SDK n SDK when it can be a step in a “software roadmap” which I guess will be presented as a wonderful long-term opportunity for the Appleists to continue their habit, no addiction. What addiction? Apple products addiction and, now - finally, addiction to product derivatives or 3rd party products.

Dealers rejoice! :-)

I am happy because this increases competition in the mobile software market where I see a lot of fun coming in 2008.