Personally, I'm getting sick of being "online" all the time, I find myself missing things, so I'm cutting down. <div>I don't use Facebook, google or twitter on my phone. </div><div>I check Facebook once a day now and I usually post on my blog, which is set up to repost on Facebook, google+, twitter and pinterest for me. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Im even considering ditching my smart phone completely. </div><div>Partly because of the above, and partly cause I just get plain frustrated with waiting for me phone when I push a button. </div><div><br>
</div><div>There's a lot to be said for the old mantra of "KISS" - keep it simple, stupid. </div><div><br></div><div>2013 for me is about simplifying my life, decluttering, focusing on what's important to me, my family, my friends and my "sounds" (synths and music). </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have nothing against technology, but all I see lately is gadgets for gadgets sake, technology should be ubiquitous, it should just work, seemlessly, you shouldn't know it's there. </div><div>
<br></div><div>I don't want to do things how apple, Microsoft or google think, I want to be me, a unique individual, not a drone. <span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Paul<br><br>On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Peter Korsten wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Op 18-2-2013 22:21, Andrew Tarpinian schreef:<br>
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As we see with android, if it was more generic it may not exist. Whether you like Apple or not, they had the vision to build an audio engine into iOS that gave developers the hooks to dig deep. Android is as you say generic, but their vision is generic too. It's a vision of technology without including art.<br>
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The way I see it, Apple is mostly a marketing firm that also sells hardware, because otherwise there would be nothing to market. I imagine that they have a lot of non-technical people dreaming up new features, in meetings that see a lot of buzzwords such as 'synergy', 'the way forward' and 'win-win situation'.<br>
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Google, in contrast, is more of a firm that thinks 'now what would happen if I press this button?', even though there's a big sign saying 'do not press button – will cause thermonuclear blast'. They just come up with a product that often nobody likes (Pulse, Wave, Plus), and sometimes it's actually a success (Chrome). Almost everybody working there has a PhD, which is a bit of an issue because practically none of their customers have one.<br>
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In a sense, Apple is doing what it has always done, which is selling high-end devices where they control both the software and the hardware. Google, on the other hand, is selling a platform, very much like Microsoft did in the nineties. So it wouldn't surprise me if things go the same way it did with personal computers, unless Apple are willing to get lower profit margins, and tap the lower end of the market.<br>
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Google, though, needs more direction. I personally prefer Android over iOS, but it's crazy that my phone has a 4-core CPU, and yet often it takes a few seconds for the messaging to come up. And this has gotten worse as time progresses.<br>
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The good news is by accident (or maybe on purpose) the excuse of a phone has thrust us into the future of computers.<br>
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Well, that I'm not so sure about. Computers at home, maybe or even probably, but computers at work, no. There's no way I could do my day job on a 10" screen, without a keyboard and mouse. Things will diversify, though.<br>
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Actually probably over 10 years ago I heard a talk at a video editing confernce about how we would be moving away from the desktop into a future where instead the computers we would use would actually just live in the devices we use, camera's etc..<br>
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Well, apparently my favourite car maker is going to run its in-car entertainment and navigation system on Android. And the first Android cameras are here as well. But rather than replacing the desktop entirely, we'd be using devices like these for things that we didn't have any better solution than the desktop. But let's face it: you're not going to do word processing, spreadsheets or graphic design on a tablet. Because you would see that a new message had come in, you'd check Facebook, look at photos of cats... :-)<br>
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- Peter<br>
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