Why do geeks exist?
to all the geeks in the world who feel cool being a geek:
a geek exists, simply because tech industry giants never did their job well, remember a time when we were all using PCs, we all knew how to reformat a computer, how to replace ram or graphic cards, we all knew about latest processors in the market. Since ive been using mac and ios, i suddenly realize that i forgot to keep up news about the latest processors or graphics card, i dont even know how to replace dead batteries nowadays. What Apple tries to tell you here is that, You are a consumer, you should focus on what you do best, on being a good doctor or lawyer, let them do their job and you dont need to worry about the rest, you dont need to waste time being a geek.
Think about the car industry as how it used to be, it is the perfect example of letting the customers do what they do best, you just need to know how to drive, they will settle everything else for you.
ios is not as customizable compared to android.
if i ever wanted to upload a screenshot of my iPhone screen, you will notice that aside from all the apps cluttered together, i am still using that original bubble wallpaper came stock with the iPhone. i remember when i first saw the iPhone 4 advertisement, the retina display, the glass design of the iPhone 4, it was one of that “wow” moment and that i thought, finally someone from the tech industry really makes product with a heart. i really dont think there is anything to customize from a already perfect phone, i dont even use a screen protector or phone cover. Simplicity always prevail at the end, think Braun, religion, life.
is there anything to modify on a Porsche or Ferrari?
what is a perfect phone?
a perfect phone is a phone that works seamlessly and intuitively, not a phone with 2.5ghz processor and 1gb ram, neither a phone with a 5.3 inches display but still havent get something as simple as smooth scrolling right. simple as that. Unlike Android users, we dont like to Google up about how to do this do that with our phones.
Screensize?
Until today Apple is still using its standard 3.5 inch screen on iPhones. what it means is that a phone is a phone, and it should function like a phone. a tablet is a tablet and it should function like a tablet.
Phone? Tablet? does that specific tagline sound familiar to you? What about, Too Big For A Phone, Too Small For A Tablet?
oh an iphone breaks easily and the s2 fared better in droptest.
Given the example of when youre buying a very expensive piece of furniture, would you like your furniture be made out of glass, or cheap plastics? just because plastic survive better in droptests? LOL
Ios doesnt even support flash!
i remember when i was a kid, around 13 to 14 years old, i was stunned, awestricken to the graphical capability of Flash, i tried learning how to do flash graphics, on a laptop running Windows 95. Many years later today, developers are coming out with better platforms, html5? they are more stable, less ram consuming, compared to a 10+ years old graphics technology. That 200’000 apps in the Appstore, graphical and non graphical, proved the irrelevance of and independence from Flash, perhaps Adobe should look forward to developing better multimedia platforms instead of accusing Apple of leaving the past behind, yes Steve Jobs said that himself.
i recently saw the tagline of Galaxy Tab ad. Seems to me they are making Flash support a big part of their marketing, meh!
About Android’s growing dominance in market share.
I recently read a forecast of someone saying that the Android Market will one day overtake the Appstore because of Android’s dominance in market share, thus making app developers switch focus into developing apps for Android, instead of Ios.
Apple’s success was never about marketshare, its all about the quality of it’s customers instead, speaking of customer quality, what i mean over here is Ios users are more likely to purchase apps from the Appstore, more likely to buy books from the iBook store, more likely to subscribe to magazines in Newsstand, more likely to download from iTunes, more likely to buy genuine softwares from the Apple store instead of installing pirated versions of Adobe illustrator.
how do they build a network of quality customers? Android fails to understand that customer support is all the while backbone of Apple’s success. Given a situation of a phone breakdown, we want to be able to just throw our phone back to Apple store and have them fix it, instead of typing “why does my phone shut down by itself?” into that Google search bar. Quality customers demand perfect customer support, put it simply they only demand the best, that also explains why people have been making a big fuss about iPhone 4’s antennagate issue, or the 4s battery issue. The 4s runs an exceptional 6 hrs of active usage, and that scores way better than alot of Android phones out there. Put it simply that quality customers demand perfect products from Apple. quality customers also demand customer superiority, Apple did so by enabling the Ios 5 update for 3gs users, they all don’t want to feel ripped off by asking “why my phone cannot upgrade to ice cream sandwich?”
People just dont like the feeling of a company sells them a phone and leave them alone. Apple today is the biggest tech company in the world, but it was never the leader in marketshare. Mac os was never the marketshare leader in desktop os, ios was never the marketshare leader of smartphone os, before Android there was Berry, before Berry there was Symbian.
Speaking of customer quality and customer support, i myself realize that the worthy competition for Apple, is Amazon, instead of Google.
What Android fails to understand.
Apple’s huge success was never about catering to market demands like faster processor, bigger screen size etc. they just make cool products and sell them for a profit. It really is that simple, but it is also what Android fails to deliver.
All of the above is about my view, on marketing, on my strong belief in design philosophy. it is never meant to offend any Android users. But being me also means that while you can deny my thoughts, i will still be certain that i am right.
You Say You Want a Devolution?
This really fantastic article by Kurt Andersen seeks to analyze why exactly our culture and style, our sense of innovation, seems to be stagnant and unchanging over the past two decades.
I know that over the past few years I’ve become increasingly obsessed with americana and so have many of my friends. Celebrating the past or collecting antiques is nothing new, but it has usually accompanied something new. We have the digital revolution, does that just encompass the medium and not the message? I’m not so sure.
I especially liked the conclusion:
We seem to have trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle—economic progress and innovation stagnated, except in information technology; which leads us to embrace the past and turn the present into a pleasantly eclectic for-profit museum; which deprives the cultures of innovation of the fuel they need to conjure genuinely new ideas and forms; which deters radical change, reinforcing the economic (and political) stagnation. I’ve been a big believer in historical pendulum swings—American sociopolitical cycles that tend to last, according to historians, about 30 years. So maybe we are coming to the end of this cultural era of the Same Old Same Old. As the baby-boomers who brought about this ice age finally shuffle off, maybe America and the rich world are on the verge of a cascade of the wildly new and insanely great. Or maybe, I worry some days, this is the way that Western civilization declines, not with a bang but with a long, nostalgic whimper.
This was one of those really beautiful mornings when you wake up and just want to spring out of bed and blow the world away. Even though you didn’t get that much sleep the night before you feel refreshed and energized and great, anything is possible! Even the view out your window is so oddly inspiring (you see it every morning) you grab your camera as if to say “yo life, this moment rules so much I need to take a photograph of it just so I’ll remember.” You’re just happy.
And then a giant gust of wind blows all of your deck furniture away and shatters your rare giant Yoshitomo Nara ashtray that you had to get on Ebay because they don’t make it anymore and it cost like $120 bucks even though it had a chip in it and it was this huge thing but you bought it because you love it and boom! now it’s gone. You run outside in your underwear chasing your chairs and table. You cut yourself shaving even though you use an electric razor. Then you forget your keys, lock yourself out, and you can’t open any of your drawers at your office at work. It’s pouring rain and you forgot your umbrella. Your bright shiny mood plummets and you think about how the world is a strange place and God is probably just having a laugh at your expense.
It’s okay, you think, you’ll get that feeling once again and maybe the mood will last a few hours or even an entire day and it will be great. None of it’s a big deal, it’s just kind of a bummer that you were so ready to engage with the world and then felt so quickly beaten down by it (even if it was just a few little things). There’s always tomorrow.
For now, the bus is late and you’re out of cigarettes. Tomorrow!
This has been bugging me for at least the past 4 years, but now I’m going to say it out loud, spew it out, get it off my chest, get it out of me, make a confession and finally accept it. I am a terrorist. I am a blown out terrorist with rage and anger and hate for the freedoms of the world. My skin is dark and my name is Hussain, thus I fit your description of the enemy. The truth is that I am more than happy to be your enemy than be one of you. This is because to be “good” in your eyes, I have to be silent, disappear and be non-existent. You don’t want to see me, hear me and my mere being is a problem. I am pestilence and parasite on white man’s earth. Well the earth of the powerful but power mostly belongs to whites who are civilization’s refined beings. To be with you, I have to be like you. For me that entails that I have to cease to live, breath, think, create, observe, reflect and contemplate. I have to be a vegetable to be on the “good” side.
What you most fear is that I dare to raise my head, speak out and have the guts to criticize you, my master. If I’m not invisible then I am either a terrorist, savage, nigger, dyke, paki, chink, yap, hun, muslim, jew, black, yellow, brown and red. I live in today’s world so I get tagged as terrorist; and to be honest it’s my favorite out of all. I am glad to say that I am proud of being a terrorist in your eyes. I will accept your representation of me without a moment’s hesitation and will love to flaunt it and play with it. I can’t be on your side because I don’t support Israel, I am not on the good side because I defend the Afghans and the Iraqis against your aggression, I don’t belong to your “free world” because I want to uproot your beloved capitalism, I am not a part of your world order as I want to overthrow the despots you support, I can’t shout “God Bless America” when you drop 6 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, I am not your son of a bitch because I don’t want to be acquiescent with your power, I can’t be your nice fellow because I can’t stand and just watch you make Latin America your “backyard”, your home for me is not the home of the free and the brave when I know what you did to the Natives, you are not my shining house on the hill when you make yourself rich off the backs of black people, you are not “advanced” for me when you exploit workers, you are not “civilized” for me when I have seen first hand what your “civilization” has done to my ancestors. I have nothing to learn from you because all you know is how to kill. I don’t want to be in the same bracket as you because you are the oppressor regardless of how much you like to pretend that you are not.
No matter what clothes you wear, I will instinctively know that you will always be naked. I am the oppressed and I have no intentions of forgetting that. I can’t be myself when I am with you. I only find my expression with Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Asia, Latin America, Africa and with all those down trodden, toiling, pillaged, raped, looted and suffering humanity. By your view of life, that makes me a terrorist and hell yes I am.
- Jahanzeb Hussain
We must ask ourselves… what is a terrorist?
(via revolutionaction)
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