newsweek:

Nineteen eighty-four was not like 2014. When Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh, he had to generate excitement about a product — a computer — that was unfamiliar to most people, if not downright scary. His creation would eventually entice them into changing their minds, but first, they had to be intrigued enough to learn about it.

The Macintosh was new, but the media would have to be old. There were no tech blogs, no Facebook, no Twitter, and certainly no Mac rumor websites. There were no websites at all. So Jobs had to generate his own campaign to tell the world about the computer that he would announce on January 24, 1984, 30 years ago today.

(via The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)

Source: Wired

newsweek:

40 more maps that explain the world

Source: Washington Post

REALLY? Why the fuck is XL spreading FUD like this? Insinuating that the home button easily breaks.

My four year old 3GS has a perfectly fine home button, the one on my three year old iPad 1 works just as well as on day one, my brother’s 2nd gen iPod touch hasn’t needed a replacement home button and this two year old 4S hasn’t need one either.

Yes, some units may end up needing replacement eventually but putting out a blanket statement that the home button is fragile is simply misinformation. XL is instilling fear among its audience. – View on Path.

laughingsquid:

Highly-Detailed ‘Star Wars’ Dioramas Featuring Scenes and Characters From the Films

Source: Laughing Squid

How to watch a video on Path without anyone knowing

Someone added Ultraman to the photo from yesterday

XL Axiata pulled its iPhone 5S/C price page

Last night I was tipped that XL Axiata had published its iPhone 5S/C pricing schemes. Suspecting that it was leaked early, I took screenshots and published both the link and the shot. I was later informed that it was indeed leaked and a few hours later the page was taken down.

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Apparently people at XL hadn’t realized the page was already published so it looked like that they scrambled as quick as they could late Saturday night to remove the page, probably gave it a different URL instead of taking it down completely.

As I said last night, the pricing plans for postpaid are almost identical to the US pricing which is excellent but the prepaid prices were a big step up. Turns out, the they were about 25% higher which I suppose isn’t too bad but is shocking nonetheless because it brings the 5S very close into MacBook Air territory.

The Rupiah’s fall against the greenback is perhaps the biggest contribution to the high prepaid prices (although if you go with the postpaid option, the total cost of ownership after 12 months would be within the same ballpark) and if the exchange rate had remained in the 9500-10500 per dollar, I’m sure the iPhones would be a bit more affordable.

Something in my head tells me that this was a set up though. That I was leaked the page specifically to gauge reaction to the prices. It just so happened that the tip came after I had tweeted asking whether people would buy an iPhone 5S if it were to start at Rp 9 million for prepaid. It ended up being 10.5 million and the 5C started at 8.7 million.

Will XL make changes now that it’s all been leaked?

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Update: it’s live, no change

– Read on Path.

story-dj:

 

Researchers Are Totes Studying How Ppl Shorten Words On Twitter
Kat Chow, npr.org

Short­en­ing words, swap­ping them out, giv­ing them dif­fer­ent mean­ings — that’s not new. Remem­ber in Mean Girls when the queen bee char­ac­ter, Regi­na George, berat­ed one of her under­lings for try­ing to make the word “fetch” catch…

People are obv shortening words on Twitter due to the nature of the medium, but researchers have discovered that while this may be true in the beginning, certain abbreviations have become mainstays and used across the United States, at least on Twitter.

iPhone 5S/C pricing from XL – View on Path.