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iHome.
Maybe that’s Apple’s next big thing.
Household management. Somethimg that’s been around for a while but never ccaught on beyond enthusiasts.

Game tended to set up shop in the same shopping centres as EB. Direct competitors, selling the same stuff in the same way. And then you’d always have the very popular JB Hifi (computers, TVs, DVDs… I guess a Best Buy kind of shop) in the same mall, also selling the same stuff.

It’s tough competing in that situation.

A “Free” game has to make it’s money somehow. If it’s not initially free, it can’t get bums on seats. So they are forced to make the money by stealth, which feels grubbier.

It’s a curse of the Internet in general. Everything’s Free* (<— asterisk)

Oh, and stop blaming Engadget for everything. That’s a pretty fundamental “Uncivility” right there.

Or taming a bucket of stupid goldfish.

Okay, that doesn’t quite work, but “Shark” doesn’t describe most people in this place either.

Smart HMTL 5 guys… obviously more suitable for Chome than Android.
But also quite useful for Googs world of Web Apps. Docs, Gmail, Maps and so forth.

Fair enough. Looks like a pretty logo.

The ads could have Donald Pleasence (or Mike Myers) stroking a cat in his hollowed out volcano, plotting to conquer THE WORLD with is new HP Spectre laptop.

I still think is should have been called the Pen_s.

I have to admit that I am holding off upgrading my PC until Windows 8 comes along.
Waiting to see what the right hardware is… will there be affordable desktop touch enabled screens for example?
(Before you type common forum memes at me, yes. Yes I do think a combination of mouse and touchscreen will be useful on the desktop)

The whole “I like X but I tried Y for a week and here are my prejudices” thread theme is getting rather worn out.

Yup. I like the No Pictures and No Links in your first 50 posts rule.
Simple. It doesn’t block newbies too much. They can join up and comment. Some forums can get too restrictive and frustrate new people.

All I want is for the Goog execs to say to the Moto execs, “Listen, don’t make crap”.

Late to the game reading this, but, the guys have a point.
I am surprisingly agreeing with alot of what they say.

The Arc was a pretty phone. A generation behind in hardware, as Sony phones tend to be, but pretty.

I carry in my pocket both an Android and an iPhone.
My crusty old X10 and an 3GS. Both old old creatures.

While I like the Android world and spend far more time in it, I have to admit I like the smoothness of the 3GS, They way things scroll, the lightness of touch on the thing. I hope that the latest generation of Android beasts have gained that.

Personally if I was head of the Android dev team, that would be very very high on my list of things to get right. It makes your users happy. They aren’t wondering if that button press did anything.

Ahh the Apple fanboys flock to the Samsung post…

RED gets more of a viewing on the Verge though. We get plenty of articles about them.
It’s the company most people here (including myself) know about.

I enjoyed it, but I think you have to be a comic book geek to get a serious buzz out of it.
My screening had a bunch of kids in the back who were cacking themselves laughing at some of the jokes, which personally I found nice but not bellyaching funny. I guess if you are really into Marvel Superheroes it’s a whole lot funnier.

My biggest problem with the movie was the final fight. I kept thinking, “Just send in the USAAF. They’d make easy work of these guys.”

My take on that graph is that in the late 1900’s alot of Scifi was Millennial. “In the year 2000….”
It was also a time of worrying about pollution and overpopulation and oil and so forth. Lots of near term predictions. And in the 90’s Cyberpunk took off, which is near-mid term scifi.

But now? The near future is tough. What will the world be like in 15 years time? You can’t say “There will be Robots and a Moon Base” any more. The near future will be subtler than that. Easier to write scifi-fantasy of the distant future.

We all have a bellybutton. Unless we are an android. We wouldn’t feel complete without it.
You wouldn’t want your iPhone to feel like it’s an android, would you?

A closed system would me no Cyanogen. It would mean no wacky Chinese tablets.
I like the chaos of Android. It makes for lots of awful, but also a little bit of wonderful too.

We have 3 quite different models for developing and making money out of a phone operatin system out there right now.
- Do It All for Yourself.
- Write it and Sell it.
- Open Source.

Each has it’s strengths. Each results in a different attitude and ecosystem and general feel to it’s world.
And with that, you looks at what you likes and you makes your choice.

The opening scene, flying through the skyscrapers, with the industrial flames wooshing, and Vangelis flying notes high and low….

Oh admit it. It’s grown on you. Like an incurable fungal infection. You think it’s gorgeous. You want it.

The movie ends with Pixar Animators discussing making a movie about Steve Jobs…

I want Woz – The Movie.
Images of Paul Blart fill my head.

“Leeloo Dallas Multipass.”