Posts by apersona

Blackberry CEO to publicist: "I want to burnish my public image, give me some ideas".   Publicist: "Let's release a series of short articles opining on the shortcomings of various competitors. Let's start with...

A wrist-mounted device with a gyroscopic sensor could be used to capture gestures in 3-d space, blurring the lines between an epileptic fit and operating your iPhone.   Wonder if iWatch is the main reason for the...

Ashton Kutcher isn't really an actor. I mean, he plays an actor in real life but all you really get is Ashton "That 70's Show" Kutcher. I don't think I could bear to watch and hear Michael Kelso, dim-witted pretty boy, trying to...

Yucky yuck yuck. Because he cares so much about ME, Larry Page wants Apple and Amazon to change their entire business and Google "be allowed" to do everything it wants. That kid has a real future in Washington D.C., or even better, the...

Orwell didn't foresee we'd do it to ourselves, at our own expense and thinking how great it was.

Quote: Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart    Oldsters? Please. I'm almost 57. Put your overly-broad paintbrush away. I'm 54, but I wasn't referring to chronological age. Every technology, no...

Cue the chorus of oldsters tiring of innovation and the effort it takes to wipe the slate clean and change paradigms.

Don't confuse metaphors with skeuomorphs. Software graphic metaphors such as Desktop, Folder, Spinning Watch and Trashcan are what made Macintosh "the computer for the rest of us" by associating familiar visual cues with similar...

Sinofsky's comments remind me of what DOS and then Windows power users have always said about using Apple products; "that's not REAL computing". These are left-over echoes of the high priesthood of computing that only a select few had...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mazda 3s  Hyperbole much? These two look NOTHING alike? well, it's not like one's a dead ringer of the other ...   If you take the time to actually LOOK at...