Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Tue Dec 21

After the Droid Does (and iDon’t) campaign prior to releasing the Droid phone (a.k.a. Milestone in Europe), here’s another cheeky campaign coming from Motorola.

Even though more than a year has passed, and this time it’s about tables and not smartphones, one of the goals is still the same - throwing punches at Apple.

Judging by a numer of views (over 300k in a day) they figured out how to build up the hype prior to the release during the next CES taking place January 6-9, 2011 in Las Vegas.

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

The never-ending meme of putting words in Hitler’s mouth (from the movie “The Downfall”) has been puy to good use to lay down most things that are wrong with the new Apple iPad.

I’ve shortly commented previously on Hitler’s (and mine) biggest gripe about the new iPad.

It’s extra entertaining to write this from Germany. ;-)

German readers should put the volume down for better experience, although I’m sure that by now they know the original text by heart anyway.

Hitler responds to the iPad [via midnightblade]

“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]

Wed Apr 15

Taiwanese Elan Microelectronics claims to have patented multi-touch technology under the name “eFinger Transparent Touchpad” before Apple filed for that patent. They already had some issues with Synaptics, the company that has been supplying Apple, no more no less, with their own touch technology (e.g. touchpad for iPods).

Now, Elan Microelectronics is suing Apple over multi-touch (or was it multi-finger?) patents. In this video you can see their eFinger Transparent Touchpad technology being used in a device that runs Android OS. That also proves the flexibility and potential of open-source Android platform.

On a side note, it is evident that Elan’s technology is more powerful then the original T-Mobile G1’s capacitive screen has and as demonstrated by an Android deveoper, Rye Brye, several months ago.

[via phamoui]

Tue Mar 10

Watch Steve Wozniak, the creator of the Macintosh computer is dancing… and he’s not too bad. :-)

Gotta love the Woz!

[via jm9843]

Wed Feb 4

Is Apple being inspired by Braun’s product design from 60s for all Apple products in 90s in the new millenium?

Judge for yourself by looking at these Braun-Apple comparisons. One thing is sure for me - there won’t be anything resembling a pocket calculator coming from Apple.

[via Gizmodo]

Sun Oct 26

Apple iPhone sales predictions vs. information overflow and filtering

We’re in second half of October and Apple Inc. has already surpassed the goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. Impressive!

Get your laughs at various analysts predicting a lame future for iPhone and Apple a while ago.

Here’s another failed prediction from January 2007:
“2. Jobs raised Wall Street expectations too high

Jobs made the mistake of specifying Apple’s target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. The goal sounded modest when Jobs said the goal represents just 1 percent of the global handset market”“.

As ever, analysts will give you predictions either way, pro et contra, buy vs. sell, good vs. bad, fame vs. lame. I’d say we’re all better off using our “trusted” sources and gut feeling when making decisions.

We’re living in the world of Web 2.0 littered with information sources but also technologies (feed readers, micro-blogging communities, podcasts, and the alphabet soup - RSS, APP, XMPP, ESP, etc.) Twitter that help us stay on top of the resulting information overflow. The whole idea of managing information overflow is perfecting our filters so that we are left with more time using our gut feeling,

Thu Sep 18

Hack that Phone - OpenSSH installation

A hacking interlude… this is something I would like to have handy when I start developing for iPhone and/or iPod touch.