chapter four – my 30s
While watching the Apple special event from last night I was really touched when Steve Jobs thanked the 20 something year old who had donated his organs and whose Liver he was the recipient for. He encouraged everyone to be an organ donor, something I would encourage everyone to do as well. I wonder if [...]
I love my iPod touch, love using Skype on it, love playing games on it, checking my Yahoo! and Gmail, using all kinds of apps on it. But I’m upset that there’s so much potential for the iPod/iPhone devices that Apple’s stopping the users from getting. Google voice has been rejected (and Eric Schmidt stepped [...]
I was listening to a podcasts from This Week in Start Ups (TWIST) from Jason Calacanis. It was the first time I’d listened to one of his podcasts and probably won’t be the last. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t revolutionary but it was thought provoking. One of the thoughts I had was around high [...]
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years after it’s [...]
It’s a starter Mac. I’ve had an iPod touch for about a month and a half now and I’m about to buy a Mac. Having had a Blackberry for over a year and a Windows mobile before that, and a Nokia for most of my adult mobile using life, I’ve tried all the different major [...]
I’ve worked in marketing. I understand marketing. I like marketing. But marketing isn’t shit if you don’t have a good (if not great, awesome) product, have your distribution channels tied up and have great service. Here’s an example, T-mobile has great freaking commercials, the bee loves the marketing campaign. It’s great, people dancing in Liverpool [...]
I love London. I love the people. I love the energy. I love me in London. I love who I become. How I think. And the ideas I have. The idea that’s really captured my imagination right now is three word maxims, I’ve spent three days in London and have three principles of three words [...]
I’m reading subject to change by the good folks at Adaptive Path right now. It’s an interesting book that discusses features and design and why people like using what they like using. It’s all round good stuff. At the same time I’m reading a lot about the credit crunch and how people are no longer [...]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is kicking off in a couple of minutes. I don’t own a Macbook or an iPhone (yet) but I’m pretty excited. As I mentioned earlier I’m a guy who waits for a couple of product iterations and when the price comes down a bit before I dive in. In addition my [...]
Umair’s been spending quite a bit of time talking about good and evil, open and closed, Microsoft and Yahoo, and Facebook and Google. A very basic synopsis would be that open is good, Microsoft, and increasingly Facebook, have bad DNA and this will prevent them from sustaining success in the long run. Whereas Google has [...]