When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is, everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
The World Is Cold. You Must Light The World On Fire.
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After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms.
That is likely to be the most important and far-reaching development in the U.S. mobile market in 2010. In light of the high ideals that the Android OS was founded upon and the positive movement toward openness that was happening back in 2007-2008, it is an extremely disappointing turn of events.
When Apple convinced AT&T not to plaster its logo on the iPhone or preload it with a bunch of AT&T bloatware, it was an important first step for smartphones to emerge as independent computers that were no longer crippled by the limitations put on them by the selfish interests of the telecom carriers, who typically wanted to upsell and nickle-dime customers for every extra app and feature on the phone.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said, “iPhone is the first phone where we separated the carrier from the hardware. They worry about the network, while we worry about the phone.”
Brian Boyd’s diatribe on the iPhone 4 antenna issue:
Is capitulation fun? Is that why you buy things? To be less than completely satisfied? If you are completely satisfied, is it beyond your ability to comprehend that maybe others are not? And what is it about paying money for something that makes so many of you unflinchingly willing to defend a corporation that treats its customers with open disdain?
I’ll tell you why: It’s because Apple makes the best stuff. Or at least that’s the magical feeling that supercharges the objectively fantastic design of most of their product line. But that feeling of loyalty to a company? It completely erodes your right as a customer. A company is only as good as its last product—especially when they don’t own up to their own mistakes. Toyota has made some of the world’s finest vehicles for the last thirty years, but it just took one ghastly mistake to erode that trust.
Nice to see government taking notice of the power of social media. All these world leaders come here seeking to emulate the curiosity that is Silicon Valley. Yet, maybe it is a unique combination of being in the right place, at the right time with the right people that has engendered its meteoric rise. Maybe these attempts at imitation are doomed to fail.
“В офисе Apple.” This happened today. How’d I learn about it? Why, from the Kremlin’s new official Twitter account. Medvedev also visited Twitter, Cisco, and other Silicon Valley companies. Medvedev works on a MacBook, and recently began using an iPad.
Today, a FaceTime-capable iPod Touch would not be a proper replacement for a phone. You could neither send nor receive calls when not connected to a Wi-Fi network, nor send or receive calls with anyone using a device that doesn’t support FaceTime. (The Wi-Fi limitation similarly anchors Skype-equipped iPod Touches today.)
But surely, someday, there will be a non-phone-carrier wireless networking technology with far greater range than Wi-Fi. FaceTime, I think, is a first step in the direction of a mobile “phone” with no mobile carrier. If and when FaceTime is supported over 3G in addition to Wi-Fi, it’ll be data, not voice — megabytes, not minutes. And immediately, starting today, it’s a step away from tying your iPhone’s “calls” to your carrier’s network.
Source YouTube, Feld Thoughts
