This, I can appreciate.
Author: Aulia Masna
Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
Apple’s changing philosophy
Apple’s new philosophy is quite a departure from the previous one. Each clearly served a different Apple, a different point in time, a different way to marshall the troops in Cupertino, but both are beginnings of a new chapter.
Think Different was launched to boost morale at a time when Apple was near bankruptcy, when it had little to show for, when the company had almost no direction. It had to believe in itself, in the products it was about to create, in the vision that Steve Jobs had held for them.
Here’s To The Crazy Ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
-Think Different-
Designed in California launched when the company is soaring, leading in areas that it can lead, performing close to the best that it has ever could. Apple at this point is led by a different leader, one with a different vision, a different focus, a different goal, motivated differently, but with the same ambition. The new Apple is making its mark, signifying a renewed energy, a strong emphasis on home.
This is it.
This is what matters.
The experience of a product
How it will make someone feel.
Will it make life better?
Does it deserve to exist?
We spend a lot of time on a few great things, until every idea we touch enhances each life it touches.
You may rarely look at it, but you’ll always feel it.
This is our signature, and it means everything.
-Designed by Apple in California- – Read on Path.
Über and the private car hire services
You know all those private cars for hire at Soekarno Hatta airport? All those drivers offering “taxi” service? They’re not so bad. Sure they’re a bit more expensive than regular taxis but after a couple of tries, the cost to get me home from the airport isn’t that much more expensive.
Instead of paying 100k plus toll fare, I paid 150k including toll fare and because the fare is agreed upon prior to getting into the car, if we get stuck on a traffic jam, they don’t charge more. It also takes out the frustration of having to wait for ages to get a cab.
Come to think of it, all they need is legitimacy and it’s definitely not difficult. If you think of them as private cars for hire instead of a taxi service, something more like Golden Bird as opposed to Blue Bird, the cost makes more sense.
If you have their phone number, which is direct to the driver instead of the company, you can ask them to pick you up anywhere in the city and go to any place.
In fact, I think these companies are only one step away from becoming something like Uber or Lyft. The only thing lacking is a centralized booking system with accompanying smartphone apps.
There is of course the issue of trust. Because the system is still manual and there’s no immediate or recognizable assurance that they are certified drivers for legitimate transport service companies, there’s no guarantee you won’t get a creepy guy or even a criminal on the driver’s seat. – Read on Path.
Where I look at my own personal use of iPad and it’s a significant percentage of my computing work now.
Tim Cook, replying to Walt Mossberg at D11
I know you read all the blergs and the tweets but I feel like this comment was overlooked while he was being interviewed live.
I’ve met Apple Store managers—Managers—who told me that they got rid of their Macs because iPhone does everything they need. Now Apple’s CEO says his (admittedly hot stock-market-pleasing) tablet is doing a “significant percentage” of his computing.
Hang on, pause for dramatic effect.
Wow.
(via chartier)
Over 80% of my writing work now is done on the iPad mini and mobile phone, which at this time are an iPhone 4S and a Find 5 which I got to review from Oppo. The use of the Mac has been mostly relegated to whenever I need to recharge the battery on the iPad (gasp! it can run out of juice!) or when I need to use the iPad as a reference device.
On my daily travels, the Mac has stopped being a member of my backpack, in fact, i hardly ever carry a backpack anymore, just a small bag to carry the iPad along with the cables and plugs. And a battery pack.
I use iA Writer on all my three Apple devices. On the iPad, Photoshop Touch along with Snapseed are my two image editing tools. I want to use Poster to blog but the WordPress installation at work hasn’t been updated to 3.6, so I end up with the official WordPress app. The biggest problem with not using a Mac is I can’t get the embed code for tweets that I sometimes want to include in my posts, so I’m forced to resort to simple linking.
Currently I’m experimenting with doing video interviews using the iPad. It’s not as easy as writing.
Overall though, my workflow runs nicely without the Mac.
Tumblr @ Yahoo: Day 1
- New purple dashboard option
- All other dashboard color options are retired
- By June 1, you will have to update your avatar to be one of those damn cartoon people things
- All new post buttons (icon and background) are now purple
- Every sentence you write will automatically get an exclamation point!
- All exclamation points are now purple
- Yahoo Mail gets a button to auto-post incoming messages to Tumblr
- Tumblr’s mobile apps now automatically summarize all text posts so you don’t have to do all that damn reading
- All photos are also summarized using auto-generated shadow puppet images with dramatic text captions to save on bandwidth costs
- All posts have a chance to appear on the Yahoo.com front page. None of yours will
LOL
sigh
Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. wsj.com
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 19, 2013
Thought via Path
So @ariefr said if he was running Tumblr he’d sell for a billion to Microsoft and let them deal with the porn.
If you were running Tumblr and Yahoo dangles a billion USD in cash in front of you, would you sell?
Consider Instagram selling to Facebook for $300 million in cash and $700 million in stock, which ended up being $700 million total because Facebook stock tanked when the deal closed.
Consider Google not selling for a billion dollars to Yahoo in 2006 and it’s now worth $13 billion.
Consider Groupon not selling to Google for $6 billion in 2010, is now worth $4.5 billion.
Consider Yahoo not selling to Microsoft for $44 billion, now worth less than $30 billion.
Is Tumblr a Facebook, an Instagram, a Yahoo, or a Groupon? Or will it be the next Posterous?
Yahoo may need Tumblr’s audience but is Tumblr a good fit at Yahoo? – Read on Path.
Comparing Oppo Find 5 with Samsung Galaxy S4. Thickness and weight seem pretty identical, so are the camera and screen quality. The Find 5 has a thicker chin though, so it’s taller and its lens’ depth of field is narrower but the S4 produces much sharper and more vivid photos.
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