anyone got the link to the iphone 4g keynote video (comment back), with the stuffup or has it been pulled to protect the overly precious about itself image of apple, by getting rid of an onstage fluff by pulling the video, they’ll use that fluff to make a wifi blackout at newer keynotes be sure, theyll probably start confiscating peoples tech or something before steve gets on stage.
What we do have access to video wise ? is a fucking advert on the apple site (obviously thats a unintentional metaphorical karmic joke representative of apple itself) A new advert has been released we can all lapup like the shmucks we are, with ives and steve and the crew all cooing into cameras and calling it another fucking … “revolution”, i’m begining to get serious marketing fatigue from this shit, god these fuckers need some fucking humilty and a lack of ego for gods sake, or theyll stop fitting through doors, the iphone needs some promotion with a small p and for the rest, it can sell itself, but the marketing onslaught ? which is Steve’s true skill is relentless, it makes me sick. Jonathan Ives in particular, being once upon a time a British person, should show some evidence of reserve in his character, but all he can do is blow Apple corporate cock, because his apples shares value must keep growing and giving him a corporate erection. Soon theyll be dancing onto stage like Balmer in “dance monkey boy dance”, because they know that an incremental upward tick in share value means they can all buy a new prius
for theyre dog or some such tech mad rich guru guff. Oh to have a british technology company to show how you could create products without all this endless egotistically framed self congratulation talk. Even the audience don’t necessarily whoop on cue in the keynotes any longer to every point, much no doubt to Steve’s chagrin.
Geesh theyve made the phone better, its not a damn revolution all over again, that word was bandied about too much in particular, at this rate we are going to end up in a technology mono-corporacy owned by one really up itself company, luckily the htc evo is an just about an alternative … if we can get some serious open source development weight behind it. otherwise theyre going to turn the future of mobile technology, into a personal cash cow home run, on theyre closed money making platform, and the espousement with which steve lauded on about iAds aiming for emotion and interection(mispelt subconscious invention I left in lol) or some such guff ? god theyre bloody adverts mate its not a huge selling point, and all of this leading to a more crooked neck existence, as the future of humanity is doomed to peer into tiny bloody devices and become myopic little tech cattle, its not really a revolutionary solution to the problem of HCI.
We need consolidation in the tech market, to go up against them, maybe a microsoft / sony / intel / nvidia / wacom merger might do it, unlikely as hell, what the other tech players dont realise is, if they dont consolidate and pull together to generate a fully competetive and complete software / middleware / hardware / os solution to the problem theyre going to lose against apples insane marketing momentum, finally the technologically illiterate have bit the corporate apple, and theyre going to keep blowing wind in apples sails for the next ten years at this rate … trust me, because they dont understand locked platforms, they just see surface glossiness and they like it, and havent yet looked beyond to see the captive market and locked platform theyre aiding, everything apple invents seems to be geared toward an ever increasing revenue stream, as evidence by their endless promotion of how much theyve sold, they dont leave it for the accounts, no they like too shout it in your ear and from the rooftops to anyone who’ll listen weve sold x million this, x million that, arent we wonderful, as though lifes prime objective is just to sell more shit, and that what this platform is going to turn into, a cash register.
if they call the fucker iphone HD theyre lying, the display is only 480p capable, thats what standards are for … 720p ? close but no cigar im afraid, HTC evo does 1080p playback, outputted via mini HDMI. and you dont have to spend 15,000 hours transcoding your videos to work on the device, or laboourious hours to get the video onto the device in the first place. Ok well now i can video edit on my iphone in 720p ? even though it can’t display 720p, lets hope that chaps eye lens and ccd combo dont mean the 720p tag the video is entitled too isnt overcompressed sludge, with an effective spatial resolution of much less say 480p upscaled. impressive didnt ask for it, and more likely to do it on a bigger screen but hey im not gonna complain, if I can knock a pretty youtube series out whilst travelling, heck it might catch on.
retinal display hmm more spurious marketing terms invented there, ok its a better display … that … just like the ipad doesnt display a full 720p frame format, its IPS and led back lit … ok combo points there, but better than oled ? I need a comparison I think. is the dpi in any way a res equal to that of the eye ? NO : the infocus part of the fovea has a resolution of around 6000 x 6000 points in an area much smaller than a square inch. so retinal is just marketing guff. and it will upscale os drawn gadgetry in current iphone apps to make em look good jus like de cameraless ipad, what your saying is some aspects of resolution independent interface layer save your bacon, but where is user control over resolution independence i was promised in mac os x 2 revisions ago, oh shit youve completely dropped the ball on that front, desktop os is now the proverbial cold potato in Apple imagination, cheers. Youve gone half the way in the resolution independent stakes, now drop your shy drawers and dive right in.
more case improvement, hmm as far as im concerned if you improve and simplify your manufacture process thats your business, if that makes it more resilient and reliable with a refraction barrier free interface between screen and glass all the better, if others arent already doing this ?
custom silicon ? if by that you you mean an instruction set optimised for iphone version of an arm chip, you’ve licensed to fabricate … true. smaller die this time ? nice work, points all round Mr Jobs.
new spatial sensor setup, great work there, this is the kind of work that most other tech companys would fail to do right, your attention to detail between software and hardware is whats kicking all the other tech companys arses out there.
and with iphone os4 multitasking all round going to be a boon, but about time really, and yes points again youve probably implemeted that software hardware middelware interface aspect better than anyone on the basis you control the whole middleware ring of power thing.
but allot of the stuff … folder organisational tweaks to phone gui, good but really thats heading down a road of trying to reinvent the wheel of gui complexity featuritis solutions, we reached in desktops with 3rd party apps to solve the fundamental problems with wimps and desktops. It still a wimp on a screen you cant escape these issues down this road, only an Augmented reality spatial HCI will ever escape the confines of a screen based GUI, google understand this ahead of you. Though your hiring of a wearable computing technology specialist, indicate you do too … except that it will probably be in iphone v8 right ? when all this prime technology your pushing today is in the f’ing landfill.
sorry for the sailory sweariness, but passion is passion.