Amazing photographs showing the 6 month mark since the earthquake & tsunami that hit Japan.
Truly shows what can be achieved with teamwork.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
∞ Shit That Siri Says
All so comically amusing. Go entertain yourself.
∞ Remembering Steve
Apple has put up a page for everyone that has shared their thoughts & memories of Steve Jobs to the rememberingsteve@apple.com email address.
You can still add your message by emailing the above or just take time out to read a sample of stories from the millions of lives he touched.
∞ More Fun With Siri Dictation
Want some help with using Siri on your new iPhone 4S, Jim Rhoades of Crush Apps is putting together a helpful resource of Siri commands here.
If you’re aware of any that are missing, make sure you contribute to the list by adding them to the comments.
∞ Instapaper 4 is out today
Patrick Rhone describes the perfect use of Instapaper.
The secret to Instapaper is to keep loading it up with things that you are interested in. Don’t worry if there is not enough time to read it all. The point is that, whenever you get any time at all, instead of playing games or checking The FaceTwitterPlus for things you, maybe, possibly, potentially might be interested in, open up Instapaper and know that every single item in there is something you are interested in.
All I can add is that if I could only have one app for my iPhone/iPad, this would be the one.
Thank You
I’m no professional writer, neither am I a designer, app developer or Apple employee, but still to me Steve Jobs is a man who changed the world.
What Steve Jobs has taught me is that what counts is not a product or price, but the experience
This isn’t a lesson in technology but a lesson in life.
My thoughts go to his family, friends and to everyone else that felt Steve was a close friend even if he knew you or not.
Think different.
1955 – 2011
A Few Thoughts On The Kindle Fire
We should put the phrase iPad killer to bed. Various posts across the web are titled with “Kindle Fire is a potential iPad killer”, “Amazon fires up its iPad-fighter” and “Kindle Fire Tablet Will Torch iPad”. Let’s put some sense into this discussion; a good way to look at this would be to compare them to cars, would you say a Nissan Micra is a competitor to Bugatti Veyron; yes they are both cars & yes the iPad & Kindle Fire are both tablets, does that really make them in direct competition with each other? Can you see where I’m heading? The target market for both products is completely different much like the potential driver for each of these cars is completely different.
Quite simply the target user for the Kindle Fire will be someone who is interested in browsing the web, consuming some content, and probably will already know of the existing Kindle. Amazon have already highlighted these people as their aimed market and the unlimited movies offering, cloud music player and using the success of the previous Kindle is a great way to entice these people in. It also falls quite well into impulse buy territory and nicely into gift budgets.
To further fuel the Fire, Amazon knows that they are in a different part of the market to the iPad which will only aide to their success. As CEO Jeff Bezos said in a message to customers:
There are two approaches to the tablet market, and both can work. Apple has chosen one (feature-rich, powerful, high-end hardware tightly integrated with a formidable content ecosystem) and Amazon the other: (spartan, feature-limited hardware tightly integrated with a formidable content ecosystem).
In a market that is already dominated in the high end by the iPad, come November 15th with Amazon’s mass of content and aggressive pricing strategy, it looks extremely likely the low end will have it’s dominant tablet too and the other manufactures should be extremely worried about what space will remain for them.