I believe it’s been said many times before; while there are many other tech companies out there – Apple is the only one worth complaining about. If Apple was actually interested in short-term value and a simple, highly-constrained, highly-polished experience, the iPhone wouldn’t do 2/3 of this things it’s purported to (still being vaporware and …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Take 40% Off the Top
“Trees must be cut down, hauled to factories in trucks, and pulped into rolls of paper, which themselves must be transported to other factories, where they are chopped up, covered in ink, folded, stacked, and loaded onto a third set of trucks. These trucks then fan out across the region, dropping bundles at distribution points, …
Feeling Temporarily Secure
I’ve been to handful of airports – the underlying architecture of them all is: open, flowing, permanent. The ironic exception is the airport checkpoints – like pop-up stores in malls. Foldable tables, movable queue markers, equipment on wheels – makes it feel so temporary. Like it just might packed up and gone tomorrow. “The tables …
An Optimistic End to a Rough Day
It’s pushing midnight. I’m reading Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine and listening to ‘Above the Law’ by N.W.A. and Limp Bizkit’s cover of ‘Faith’. Here’s to tomorrow.
Demanding Markets in Absolutely Everything
“The next logical step, then, would be to make this all personally competitive. The rise of the multi-billion dollar fantasy sports industry — where people bet, or simply compete for bragging rights, by predicting and tracking statistics in everything from baseball and football, to supreme court decisions and Congressional voting — demonstrates how eager people …
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Keeping Success at Bay
“In short, this is not a strategy to win, but one designed to keep not losing and basically pass this problem on to the next administration.” – Thomas P.M. Barnett
‘Surrender’ Has Such a Negative Connotation
“What is killing newspapers, as I’ve written before, is…their antiquated distribution system…Dropping newspapers on driveways and putting them in corner boxes is cumbersome, compared with internet distribution.” – Shel Israel Not to mention theft-prone: “I didn’t want to cancel the paper because that would mean a complete surrender to the Internet and admittance of the …
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House: Nothing’s Changed
They finally ended the ridiculous series-killing storyline (House v. Detective). This puts Hose back where I prefer it: bizarre medical mysteries and a predictable – even Encyclopedia Brown-esque – routine with snarky dialogue. Just the way I like it.
Apple iPhone: The Mobile Widget Web Calls
1. It’s not extensible by third parties, only Apple. The means at the moment no RSS readers, no Slingplayers. – Michael Gartenberg Seems to directly conflict Apple’s own messaging…especially the notion that OS X / Safari widgets can be used on the phone. RSS or otherwise. “That it’s a cell-phone, so what?” – Rex Hammock …
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Apple TV is for You and YouTube
Like complaining about the lack of a display on the iPod Shuffle, or the lack of an FM tuner on the iPod, complaining that the first version of Apple TV is only 720p is a non-starter. HD is not the point. Home movies aren’t yet shot in HD. Simplifying the experience of getting internet video …