a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
I stumbled across a great piece on Network World recapping a presentation from Tony Fadell from the Bloomberg Design Conference. The most amazing point captured was that Apple would ship 99% of the products worked on vs his experience at Philips earlier in his career where the ratio was the exact opposite!
The video above comes from Behance via Wubbahed and is well worth a watch.
My dad has you covered …
Some additional highlights …
2.2 Billion of us are using email to send 144 Billion daily messages of which 61% are considered non-essential. 68.8% of mail is considered spam of which 50.76% was related to pharma.
Brazil is the most active country on Facebook with over 85K posts per month. There are an average of 2.7 likes per active monthly user on Facebook.
Google+ has 135 million active users, but generates 5 Billion +1 clicks per day!
Terrible name … but the 5+ inch screen form factor is actually pretty awesome. I’ve been using a Galaxy Note since the end of last week and I have to say I love it. The size does take some getting used to and there are definitely moments where single-hand use can be a challenge though the benefits are clear. It’s just easier to deal with the content on screen – easier on the eyes and in some cases a richer experience as well given you get some tablet-like advantages in landscape mode.
In my use, I’ve really let the iPad Mini I’ve also been testing sit on the sidelines and to be perfectly honest I haven’t felt the need to use my iPhone much either. This larger phone form is starting to make me realize I could actually become a single phone guy. Maybe.
Techcrunch has two worthy reads:
Analyst: 5-Inch+ Phones Will More Than Double Marketshare In 2013 — 60M Incoming, Up 136%
Quartz also had a great read recently – Apple refuses to make the one mobile device taking over the world—but not for long
I’m definitely convinced this is a real sub-category, if not a developing category of smartphones. My perception is that I can do even more with the device which makes me want to keep using it … and use it more.
Just a concept for now, but pretty intriguing … Google voice controls, Now integration and instant access to contextual relevance make for a sharp idea. Not sure this is really possible in a realistic form factor yet, but I like it. Quite a few more pics at the source.
via Pocketables
This seriously looks amazing. Open ended game play with a ton of characters from the Disney universe. Physical toy integration as well as a whole digital universe.
I cannot wait to play this … with my kids! Have a feeling we are going to need a few different sets to get this going. Launches with 3 … many more to come.
via PixarPost
Very cool photo journal from Tom Olesnevich … and some pretty excellent pictures on the rest of his site as well.
via Aether – Journal
Solid roundup of mobile gaming predictions from Pocketgamer.biz
Remember when everyone could get a new iPhone on release day regardless of when their contract was set? I do … That’s changed and now we are all back to the standard mobile upgrade cycle. Price matters.
Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said.
The Cupertino, Calif., company has also cut orders for components other than screens, according to one of the people.
Apple notified the suppliers of the order cut last month, the people said.
The move indicates that sales of the new iPhone haven’t been as strong as previously anticipated and demand may be waning. It comes as the company has been facing greater challenges from Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +1.24% and other makers of smartphones powered by Google Inc.’s GOOG -0.20% Android operating system.
via WSJ.com.
Steven Sinofsky has a very solid recap of his experience at CES this year. He notes key trends and observations which are all well considered, but I particularly enjoyed this bit …
Expecting a company to unveil something at the show is somewhat misplaced. On the other hand, a big part of CES, at least for me, is really being able to see any (large) company’s full product line “end to end” and to see how they are fitting pieces together to deliver on scenarios, value, or competition. Smaller companies have an opportunity to show off their products in a much more interactive fashion, often with very knowledgeable members of the team showing things off. Most importantly, CES lets you see “side by side” whole categories of products—you see the positioning, the details, and how companies present their products.
Unveiling a new product or technology that is a cross-industry effort, one involving many partners, does work particularly well at CES. Intel’s efforts around Ultrabooks, in 2012 and 2013, demonstrate this. While Intel’s booth and large scale presentations show off Windows 8 and Ultrabooks, the amplification that comes when seen on display at Sony, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, and more is where the sum of the whole is greater than the parts.
via Learning by Sharing.
Twitter Engineering reveals how they ensure short term spikes in search lead to qualified content. Pretty awesome. The new news.
Using any device I’ve found that it’s impossible to copy and paste rich content through the clipboard. I’ve seen this in the browser (Chrome) and Pocket. Even in Pocket, where you can email a full article view, images are still missing. On iPhone I can regularly capture full web content to email … I do this many times a day actually for article sharing and find it’s strangely limited on Android.
I’m running the latest Jelly Bean on a Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus and have CM10 running on a Galaxy Note.
This is an amazing combination of talent!
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I don’t disagree necessarily but this is a pretty arrogant perspective. I would welcome more highly discoverable, great music in my life. I don’t want it programmed in an expected way however and historically our good friends in the music industry haven’t helped the situation.
Why Beats/Daisy will be different: [Other music subscription] companies, these services, all lack curation. They call it curation; there’s no curation. That’s what we did as a record label, we curated. There’s 150 white rappers in America; we served you one. We are heavy on curation, and we believe it’s a combination of human and math. But it’s a give and take. Right now, somebody’s giving you 12 million songs, and you give them your credit card, and they tell you “good luck.” You need to have some kind of help. I’m going to offer you a guide. You don’t have to use it, but it’s going to be there, and it’s going to be a trusted voice, and it’s going to be really good. via AllThingsD
See you in late Q3 if they keep schedule.
You either like the classic (and typically bulky) G-Shock styling or you don’t, but you’ve got to respect the tech here. Casio has a Bluetooth 4.0 watch ready to pair with your phone for continuous augmented info display. Speaking of which I cannot wait to get my Pebble next month … CES is just the beginning for these paired devices.
via Engadget
