"Video game violence is not a new problem. Who can forget in the wake of Sim City how children everywhere took up urban planning? It was all ‘Tune in, turn on, and zone for residential use, man!!!’"
— STEPHEN COLBERT, remarking on gun nuts trying to shift blame for gun violence to video games — instead of, we don’t know, guns — on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
(via parislemon)
Thus continuing the trend of people loving the “dogfood” when they’re inside a company, and throwing it up when they’re out.
Most of the ones I notice (both with people I know and those in public) are former Microsoft employees. People leave and immediately switch to Macs, iPhones, iPads, Google Docs, Chrome, Android devices, etc.
What I never see is people leaving Apple and switching to other products — PCs, Android devices, Windows Phone, etc. I’m sure there are some out there, but for the most part ex-Apple employees seem to remain “loyal” to the brand. Read into that what you will.
Quick thought on Apple iOS devices sales and why it’s spectacular
2007 -December 2012: 500 million iOS devices sold.
October - December 2012 - 75 million devices sold
Conclusion: Apple sold, during the Q1 2013’s 13 weeks, 15% of all iOS devices ever sold. 15% in three damn months.
Probably a good reason for why Apple’s share price fell. LOL
The market clearly wanted them to sell 15 quadrillion iOS devices in the past three months.
(via This is the funniest Windows error message you’ve ever seen - The Next Web)
Image credit: Mark Seymour
Insert your windows installation disk. Never mind that it’s a phone. Figure it out.
No compromises.
"The most important thing to Apple is to make the best products in the world that enrich customers’ lives. That’s our high order bit. That means that we aren’t interested in revenue for revenue’s sake. We can put the Apple brand on a lot of things and sell a lot more stuff, but that’s not what we’re here for. We want to make only the best products."
— Tim Cook, on Apple’s Q1 2013 earnings call. (via parislemon)
The Social Media Guru
“I bore of your analog attitude.”
(Source: youtube.com)
Portlandia - “Artisan Knot Store”
Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure.
“An artist that we work with makes these by jamming them into his pocket…”
“No chance the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007
Reblog-bait.
caro:
OS 8 was beginning of the end, but boy I miss those extension icons.
Like. (this could have been my PowerMac 6100 from my freshman year of college)
I still remember OS 7 more fondly, and that’s 100% because of the Oscar the Grouch extension.
Me, back then: “I’m a PC.”
Tim Culpan for Bloomberg on HTC’s most recent quarter:
Fourth-quarter operating income for the period was NT$600 million ($21 million), compared with the NT$1.11 billion average of 20 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Net income was NT$1 billion, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. That’s the lowest since 2004 and less than the NT$10.9 billion it posted a year earlier.
Not good, But Bloomberg dances around the truly stunning number, Sky News does not:
The Taiwanese firm, whose phones include the Butterfly, said net profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 had missed forecasts and plunged 91% year on year.
Ninety-one percent.
The Android ecosystem isn’t alive and well, the Samsung one is. Expect to hear a lot more out of this story in 2013.
Student of many. Master of none.
I think laptops can benefit from touch screens, but that doesn’t mean we should consider them tablets. Laptops, phones, and tablets all play different parts in my work or play. And, for me, they each need to be no compromise machines.
It’s very interesting to see Microsoft (becasue those are Microsoft even though it is an HP machine) and Samsung advertising with the word “best” in reference to a device they’re trying to say does two things.
And you can eat the cake too, right?
