At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. Tim Cook What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes What is originality and innovation? Is it possible, for a human being, to create …
Category Archives: tech-and-biz
Tools, tools, tools
At this point I’ve started to look for a software conceptual design IDE. This is the most complete list of tools I’ve found so far: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools. I’ve already checked out perhaps 30% of them. It seems that most tools focus on the following three features: Create wireframes. With a very little effort, skin them to …
The Greater Internet
How valuable is the Internet technology for the human society? Well, HTML is not ideal as information storage format, because is mixes content with design, doesn’t provide indexes and metainfo, and so on. HTML is also not good for capturing design, because it looks differently on every other rendering engine. And there are much simpler and straightforward ways for peer-to-peer communication …
The core marketing
Traditionally, marketing of gadgets used a lot of quasi-technical terms, like for example Gigaherz and Terabytes, to provide easily comparable indicators of product quality. Often, the technical specialists who originally conceived these parameters and have used them in a very specific context, were unsatisfied with this tendency. While the chip frequency in GHz simply means …
How free is free?
Linus Torvalds says “fuck you, NVIDIA”. He blames the company for being uncooperative with Linux driver support, and mentions that this is especially sad because the company is selling chips for Android devices, which are based on Linux. For one day, I’ve believed NVIDIA would not respond. Too bad, they did respond, and it believe it is very …
Outcry against Memo for new team members
Technical project management is an act of balancing. There are many interests. Some interests are inherently increasing product quality: someone may want to spend more development time for unit testing and documentation (to improve long-term maintainability), others want to spend more development time for small UI details striving for amazing user experience, yet another person …
iScreen or not? That’s the question
Hehe, the last chance to try to predict anything before it will be made official on WWDC… In my previous post on the iScreen, I’ve already described the most important features of the product from my point of view. What I’ve missed was the actual user interface. I don’t think it will be Siri. In …
TV Made in Germany
Yesterday I became a proud owner of Metz Carat (which is a special edition device similar to Chorus Manufakturkonzept). For this post, I’ve decided to pick a competitor’s TV in the same price range (around 800 €, note that I’ve got a special employee price for the Carat), which happens to be LG 42LW570S, and to compare …
Transcoding for Smart TV
Sometimes, the world of Internet video on demand looks down on the TV. After all, in the Internet, users have the choice of 50 to 120 thousands of items to watch, 1000 times more than on PayTV or 10 times more than in DVD rental. But, the internet video is still lacking fidelity. Here is how you should transcode if you …
Push-Pull Tactics
1. Microsoft: we will equip our tablet PCs with pens so that one can precisely manupulate them. And, we don’t need to re-write our software. Apple: (quietly scheming) Google: uhm, what? Tables PCs? 2. Apple: Hey, we’ve made this amazing revolutionary device, and guess what, you don’t need a pen to use it, just use …