October 2009
6 posts
Gruber summarises whinings about Apple not having... →
It’s fun to have all those nay-sayers comments in one place. In the end it shows that going cheap when times are tough, only leads to reduced profits. It’s not even funny anymore that Apple ‘has to’ show this to the industry quarter after quarter.
Do.Want.NOW. (eBook) →
Plastic Logic has finally named their eReader and I love it, as would John DeLancie.
I want this reader so bad it almost hurts (not really), even if I would only be allowed to use it for university stuff (really).
App Store pricing dangerous for game publishers →
I agree to a certain degree: The App Store pricing scheme might make some people hold-off on a PSP or a DS, but I don’t think that even with the low prices it will heavily impact console sales… if the publishers up their game — no pun intended — and produce titles that are worth the money.
There certainly are too many crappy 99ct games in the App Store that are too expensive for what they...
Thoughts on the Que™ by PlasticLogic
Ok, I’m having a tech-gasm here. The Que™ by PlasticLogic has me excited, now more than ever. The thing looks just gorgeous and could do wonders to my learning workflow.
A little more backstory:
A friend of mine (Japanese Studies, Politics, Sinology) and I (Sinology, Economics) have been on the fence of buying an eReader for this coming semester. Up until a few months ago our options were...
dpreview reviews the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 →
Why, why, why, oh why?
I was just getting comfortable with my Lumix DMC-LX3 and now this! Don’t get me wrong, I love that little camera of mine, but an even better cam, that is only slightly bigger is incredibly tempting.
It does not happen very often, but right now I’m happy that my wallet — or rather the amount of money in it — keeps me in check.
Financial Crisis explained over a dry Martini →
This guy is so painfully right it isn’t even funny anymore.
John Gruber compares this phenomenon to what goes on in the tech industry, I encountered the same thing when I was back in school three years before my A-Levels. Our teaching- and grading-system was changed over and over again by so called experts, that never were nor are teachers, or had any idea how people learn.