Carrier vs. Device

I find it very wrong (if not weird) that people still consider a carrier when looking at exclusive high end smartphones such as the iPhone and/or Nexus one. Was told today by someone that they don’t want to leave TMobile/blackberry and go to ATT/iPhone. Seriosly? You’re buying the device - the network is irrelevant at this point… They’re all very much and the same!

Getting home from a looping and busy day. Time to blog it up for @gmauthority

New Offering Development Process

Research on the new offering development process indicates that upwards of 3,000 raw ideas are need to produce a single commercially successful, innovative new product. Wonder if this is true of Apple?

But what kind of car does Jobs drive? Answer: SL55 AMG

2010 Acura TL

Well, I never thought I would say this but the 2010 TL is growing on me. At first it looked like a disproportionate glob of spaceship metal, but the longer I look at it, the more the lines begin to make sense. Strange how that works…

Really?

Why oh why would you drive a brand new Mercedes C350 and eat a burger AT THE SAME TIME? #stupid

The more notifications (reminders, texts) I get on the iPhone, the more I realize how much work Apple has ahead of it in this area. Here’s why the way iPhone handles notifications is problematic: as the usage rate of texts, reminders, pushed Tweets, Facebook messages, etc. increases, so will the amount of interruptions. This will lead to what I call pop-up hell - requiring the user to take constant action before resuming what they were doing previously (pictured).

I’m not sure of any other way to solve this than to make notifications present themselves in the background - in a way that’s not all in your face all the time. I’m not talking push notifications, but rather the UI. Perhaps the way the Palm Pre handles notifications (in a notification area) is the best way to go forward. Agree?

How about those RSS Feeds…

I wonder how many people actually use RSS… Outside of the geek community, that number is probably close to nill. That is, unless it’s being used in a very non-geeky way such as with iTunes podcast subscriptions and Zune podcast marketplace. Yet again, I guess that’s the whole point of RSS, to make content updating seamless. Agree?

MacBook has been up (no restart) for 35 days straight! Now that’s what I call bulletproof.

Not bad iPhone 3Gs, not bad!