Thomas Bøhm´s blog about convergent technology, design and æsthetics, lifehacking, and the occasional maniacal rant.
The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you can do one that’s one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software. As a matter of fact, I think that the leap that we’ve made is at least five years ahead of anybody.
Some things to think about…
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
The greatest technology contributions that Apple has ever made are the ones that are so obvious they are often overlooked. Apple essentially created the language of computer UI. In fact, they have done so twice now.
Tablet devices that are just for viewing magazines have an audience the size of Darlington Football Club. The iPhone has typified a trend towards convergence of devices: my iPhone is my mp3 player, phone, camera, portable computer, and on the very rare occasion gaming device. So why would I buy a piece of chunky hardware to view magazines now-and-again?
/by @andjdavies: Tablets. So hot right now…
I so agree about the current tsunami of pure “e-readers”.
→ What Will the Apple Tablet Mean for the Smarthome?
If the tablet was to be used to control multiple smart home sub-systems from unique apps this would result in a great deal of repeated opening and closing of each application. One potential way around this would be to have a common web interface to all devices - perhaps using something like HomeSeer and xAP / xPL. Or perhaps the larger form factor of the tablet will allow for a battery big enough to cope with the power-sapping nature of running multiple concurrent apps?
Yes, oh god, please let it multitask. If not for anything else just to shut up all the complainers of missing multitasking on the iPhone.
→ Auto-detect language being typed in MacRuby (Cocoa)
Merbist shows another cool feature available in Cocoa, and how it´s used in Macruby.
I´m really intrigued by Macruby btw.
