Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

A tribute to Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011mike Comments Off

I have typical taken an anti-Apple stance.  This is not because I don’t respect them as a company or their founder, Steve Jobs as a man.  I truly feel they have contributed greatly to the modern world. I intentionally avoided the knee jerk article about Steve Jobs as I knew there were other media sources [...]

read More »

Droid for a day aka Linux Mobile

October 5, 2011mike 2 Comments »

I recently (Monday) switched from HP (Palm) webOS on an original Pre (read June 2009) to android.  Of course after two years with a phone I wasn’t about to enter android lightly so I opted for the Motorola Photon 4G, essentially the Droid Bionic or whatever the top of the line Moto is for Verizon etc. Having [...]

read More »

Gizmodo reviews the iPhone 4S letdown, I review the Gizmodo review of the iPhone 4S letdown

October 4, 2011mike Comments Off

Hype, its something that surrounds James Cameron movies and Apple announcements.  Why?  Letdown after letdown has yet to teach us one simple lesson… hype leads to letdown. Gizmodo columnist Mat Honan put together an interesting op-ed piece about his personal letdown after the iPhone 5 er 4S announcement today. (Original article here: http://gizmodo.com/5846563/iphone-4s-i-am-disappoint) I wanted to [...]

read More »

Amazon Kindle Fire to Apple and Google: Game, Set, Match

September 30, 2011mike 4 Comments »

The buzz is everywhere, unless you live under a rock (or in LA) you probably heard about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet.  I’ll spare you the long description since other sites have done that.  Basically its a $199, 7-inch, custom interface tablet that runs atop android. What Amazon is telling Apple: You have screwed your [...]

read More »

Problems with the Pre and a lecture in manufacturing

August 8, 2010mike Comments Off

If you are even a semi-regular reader of this site you will know, I have a Palm (HP) Pre.  Yes the original one for Sprint, and got it shortly after it came out (a week or two, yes I’m a geek). If you’re even a semi-regular reader of life you will kn0w not to buy [...]

read More »