Posts by Commodification

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips WebOS totally fails in the market as intended but they want to license it to be used to run microwave ovens I bet. I agree. GE should buy WebOS as their user interface for all their appliances...

Sweet!!! $100 Touchpads here we come!!!!!!

Quote: The facts are actually just the opposite. Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge are huge advancements for the average user. Look at what you get on one chip. You get multiple CPUs, a GPU complex, and some special purpose video hardware....

Big Corporations like to state they're the ones creating new technologies and new jobs, but in reality they tend to only commodify ones from pre-existing industries. The vast majority of new jobs and new (previously non-existing)...

Quote: Originally Posted by dobby An ipad/mac book air will be crap at crunching a DVD, encryption and other tasks where real throughput is required. Horses for courses. Steve Jobs will kill off the optical drive long before DVD...

Quote: Originally Posted by JBlongz Mac OSX will NEVER see anything weaker than Sandy Bridge! True, but OS 11 (or whatever it becomes) might be a totally different animal and OS X will continue on Pro models for a long while until the...

Jobs has stated that Apple will only work on two OS's at a time. So if they can eventually merge iOS and OSX into one OS, than Apple can work on creating a true web/cloud based OS with icloud that could offset any short comings ios/osx...

I think the fact that Apple might be considering merging mobile iOS devices and Mac OS X imacs and laptops into a single platform is related to some of the limitations of PC processors ability to offer any real new advantages for the...

Have you noticed that nearly all Future City Concept drawings have one common theme (besides more rounded edges) is the fact there are very few people residing in them. Of course this has a lot to do with the aesthetic reasons of the...