Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
What Apple does is use its cash hoard to pay for the construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of the factory in exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the factory for a set period of time (maybe 6 – 36 months), and then for a discounted rate afterwards. That’s far more useful than buying Twitter.
Glancee looks interesting ("a fun and safe way to interact with people near you, who share mutual friends, common affiliations, and similar interests"), although you need to be geographically close to people to discover them and any shared interests. Still, at events with big crowds of smartphone toting hipsters (cough, Austin in March), this could prove to be very useful.
[audio:http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bensmith/acAEnCyovilcIAujhmloiBkybDxyyHqkvoscafHCxIwafpyjkFehjFaIavJq/Episode_010.mp3] More from the 361 degrees podcast, as Rafe, Ben and The Other Ewan talk about wi-fi hotspots, MMS, mobile apps failing without coverage, context sensitive ringing, and more.
The pro market is too small for Apple to care about it. Instead of trying to get hundreds or even thousands of video professionals to buy new Macs, they can nail the pro-sumer market and sell to hundreds of thousands of hobbyists like me. Millions of people are buying phones and cameras that can shoot HD video, and many of them are looking for ways to edit. I know how to use Final Cut Pro because I worked on it for 6 years, but for most people it’s just too complex. Should be obvious, but Apple care first of all
"The industry will ship between 500 million to 600 million PCs next year. What did [the industry] sell in pads, 14 million?" says Phil McKinney, president and CTO of HP’s personal systems group. "Everyone’s trying to make it seem the conclusion has been decided. We’re still in the top of the first inning… I’m not much of a baseball person, but I always say that the first person up at bat can never hit a grand slam." Actually it’s the top of the second innings, and Apple has already went through the nine man batting order, scored eight runs, and
A long time ago, Red Lynx wrote a game for Nokia. It was Pathway to Glory, and was one of the high points of the N-Gage system. They worked on the stand out game of the second iteration in Reset Generation. They’ve also branched out to other platforms, and earlier in June they got in touch with me and asked if I wanted to look at their latest iOS game, 1000 Heroz. It’s clearly a game designed for mobile play, with lots of short "snacking" designed into the product. What’s on offer here are 1000 levels in a fast moving
