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July 12, 2010
 

Apple, FaceTime is awesome, may I suggest TalkTime?

FaceTime is truly awesome and I find myself wishing that everyone in my family had an iPhone 4, but part of what is so great about FaceTime is the fact that once you start it, it takes the call to WiFi, and at that point, the chance of AT&T dropping your call vanishes. 

This got me thinking: Why not do the same thing for audio alone? You start a call, you switch it to TalkTime if both parties are on WiFi and you stop worrying about AT&T dropping your call.

I know this sounds a lot like t-mobile's @Home service or AT&T's MicroCell, but these cost extra and require additional equipment. FaceTime doesn't and TalkTime shouldn't either.

Filed under  //   AT&T   FaceTime   apple   iphone 4  
June 8, 2010
 

Hey, Apple, let's not go crazy with those pixels, OK?

Retinadisplay
Apple, I am more exited than anyone I know about the iPhone 4 coming with four times as many pixels as the previous 3 generations, but your chart showing why more pixels are better is a bit misleading.

4 times as many pixels is impressive on its own. I don't think that there was a need to show what 289 times as many pixels would do to prove that point.

Screenshot taken from the video at: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html

Filed under  //   apple   iphone   iphone 4   pixel density   retina display  
June 2, 2010
 

D8: Steve Jobs on the Gizmodo Story

via video.allthingsd.com

I might've missed it, but I don't think I had heard claims of extortion related to this case before.

Filed under  //   D8   apple   gizmodo   iphone  
April 21, 2010
 

Why Apple should - and I believe, will - sue Gizmodo.

In one word: Precedent.

The next time another Apple product goes MIA - if it ever happens again - they need to make sure that the events that follow are not along the lines of what happened this time. Plain and simple.

Filed under  //   apple   gizmodo   iphone  
January 29, 2010
 

iPad vs. paper. [iPad's impact on the environment]

Yesterday, I wrote the reason for my decision to buy an iPad (I will get an iPad. Here is why.). My brother did not think that I my assumption about the iPad being better for the environment than its dead-tree counterparts was correct. He offered to contact a friend of his (Jonathan Lung) to ask him about it. Here is his analysis: iPad? How bad?

Filed under  //   apple   environment   iPad   paper  
January 28, 2010
 

I will get an iPad. Here is why.

I want to pay for content (i.e. Newspapers, eBooks, Magazines) but I refuse to pay for it if I have to sit in front of a desk to consume it.

I've been tempted to subscribe to The New York Times, but I haven't done so because it bothers me that I would be responsible for so much waste of resources to get this paper delivered to my door. Again, I want to pay for the subscription. I believe the paper is worth it, but I won't pay for it if I have to consume it in front of a desktop or a laptop.

Also, I want publishers get a fair revenue from advertisers. Advertisements in print media deliver their message without demanding an action from me. Newspapers and magazines sell advertisement that is valuable because people look at it. You don't have to click on it. The advertisers communicate their message, publishers get revenue based on impressions and readers consume the content they want with minimal disturbance. This model has not been able to work on the web for many reasons, without getting into them, I believe that the iPad's format and size will allow a distribution of information that makes this possible because it allows for page design. There is enough room for both the content and the advertisement.

There are some other reasons for me to want the iPad, but the one that is going to make me get it is that one. I want to pay for the content I consume and consider valuable. I just had not found a way to do so without being responsible for so much waste of energy and resources.

I'll get it to use it as my one and only newspaper, magazine and book. The rest is extra.

Filed under  //   apple   iPad   publishers  
January 26, 2010
 

Apple's Magic

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
- Arthur C. Clarke

Three years ago I was absolutely marveled after watching the introductory keynote for the iPhone. I thought then - and it has since been confirmed - that the iPhone seemed to be at least a couple of years ahead from anything else.

I could be considered an Apple fanboy by many people, but I think that I am just a fan of things that are well designed. Not in the aesthetic sense of the word - although that is always appreciated - but rather in a broad sense of the word. Things that are born from a deep understanding of needs and a masterful application of the resources available to satisfy these needs. Apple just happens to excel at this.

Tomorrow, I am expecting to see something that will, once again, feel like it came from the future.

Filed under  //   apple   gizmos   iphone   tablet   technology