Two More Weeks

[Paul Maddox]

Personally, I'm getting sick of being "online" all the time, I find myself
missing things, so I'm cutting down.
I don't use Facebook, google or twitter on my phone.
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.

Im even considering ditching my smart phone completely.
Partly because of the above, and partly cause I just get plain frustrated
with waiting for me phone when I push a button.

There's a lot to be said for the old mantra of "KISS" - keep it simple,
stupid.

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).

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.

I don't want to do things how apple, Microsoft or google think, I want to
be me, a unique individual, not a drone.

Paul

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Op 18-2-2013 22:21, Andrew Tarpinian schreef:
>
>  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.
>>
>
> 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'.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>  The good news is by accident (or maybe on purpose) the excuse of a phone
>> has thrust us into the future of computers.
>>
>
> 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.
>
>  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..
>>
>
> 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... :-)
>
> - Peter
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