Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'apple'
A Day in Twitter User's Life
I've found myself using Twitter more and more recently. In large part it comes on the expense of blogging here - the mental entry barrier is so much different from taking proper time out of a busy day to write a polished blog entry versus shooting away compressed 140 character thought-bits from my mobile in the middle of a meeting or in transit when travelling. I've experimented quite a bit with what I tweet about. At some point I jotted...
Tired of Steve Jobs Health "Reports"
Well, ever since Steve Jobs went skinny (again, that is), the global Apple community and both new and old media have been nuts about speculations around his health. During the holidays it was quite funny to see a classic butterfly effect in action when Ross and Robert Scoble were... buying yogurt in Palo Alto. "Confirmed: Steve is healthy!" went from a casual comment of the yogurt counter employee to Chinese tech news in just a matter of hours. Yesterday I...
Apple/Yahoo's Flashback from 11th Century
This is an actual screenshot of an attempt to get a weather report for Tartu, Estonia on my iPhone, using the standard Weather app, powered by Yahoo data. What's the joke? Yes, the city of Tartu used to be called Yuryev at some point. Namely between 1030 and 1061 when Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I the Wise burnt down the wooden fortification dating back to 7th century and built his own. Just checked, Yahoo! Weather on the web has...
Me-too Moments: iPhone
I just checked, it has been 14 months since my enthusiastic post on the iPhone announcement and a liminal devices rant. Operator locking pushed me back from actually getting an iPhone for over a year. Will I get thrown out of the true gadget geek directory now? And now there I am, the last me-too kid on the block with the cool running shoes. Can't help but share some comments. As the whole internet is full of reviews already, I'll...
iPod revisited
I have owned an iPod for a couple of years now and rarely use it. First, there are not that many moments in the daily life in Tallinn when I could encapsulate myself from the world with headphones. Secondly, I have been too busy/lazy to get a proper iPod connector installed to my car. Being a bit on the hifi enthusiast side, I'd prefer proper cabling + charger dock to entry level FM transmitter. iPodding hasn't even really worked for...
Liminal devices, or if iPhone met Wii
Jaanus, sharing his initial thoughts on Apple iPhone speculates among other things on where the design could go further: ... taking the accelerometer (the portrait/landscape detector) and the proximity sensor a bit further and having a Nintendo Wii remote-like capacity to have the phone be fully aware of its 3d orientation and motion vectors. Though I can’t really imagine an application and use for it other than, say, theft detector. Here you go, Jaanus, some potential applications:...
AAPL post-iPhone announcement
So, the Apple iPhone is out. There are enough blogs covering every single aspect of that little piece of history made, so I will not dwell on the product features much. I want one very badly. You want one. And if you don't, you likely will at some point quite soon. Instead, let me share some initial thoughts I had from the amateur investor angle. No buy/sell/hold verdicts, just aspects to consider....
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