January 2010
41 posts
Amazon e Apple: un altro fronte di guerra, gli...
E’ recente la notizia che Amazon ha estromesso l’editore Macmillian (l’unico per ora a fornire ebook agli iPad) dal suo catalogo, promettendo di fare altrettanto a tutti coloro che ne seguiranno l’esempio.
Quindi si capisce che la guerra nel fronte ebook è appena iniziata per i due colossi. A cosa porterà? Difficile dirlo, ma posso provare a buttare giù qualche...
iPad e il futuro dei computer
Se ancora non l’aveste capito, il computer alla vecchia maniera (desktop, file, cartelle, etc.) è morto il giorno che hanno presentato l’iPad. Ma non sembrava un iphone gigante?
Sì. E lo è. Ragionateci un attimo: qual è la caratteristica dell’iphone che salta subito all’occhio dopo anche solo 5 minuti di utilizzo? La facilità d’uso.
E di cosa si lamenta la gente...
“we all have strengths. we all have weaknesses. sometimes the first step in...”
– Life Advice from American Idol | Becoming Minimalist
Yeah that’s the key. You can pretend to be someone else, you can live on someone else’s dreams, but at the end you have to face your real you and if you faked, well, say coh shit and run
E' giunto il momento che Apple compri Dropbox e...
Potrei anche non scrivere niente tanto si capisce tutto da titolo, ma provo a spiegare più in dettaglio. Apple assembla e vende computer. Più o meno. Vende pure un cellulare, l’iphone, che è capace di molto. Hai accesso a praticamente tutto il web, hai 100k+ applicazioni. Ora vende pure un tablet (mi rifiuto di chiamarlo iPad) che, nonostante molti ne parlino male, venderà, e parecchio....
“There’s an awe some sat is fac tion derived from games with no extra ne ous ele...”
– Metagames and Containers – Sleepover
Da leggere tutta la pagina, e da ammirare il design della stessa
Google Docs (Gdrive) contro MobileMe
Altra conferma che supporta le mie tesi sulla nascente rivalità fra Apple e Google: Google ha lanciato ufficialmente il supporto al caricamento di file in Google Docs, dichiarando guerra aperta a MobileMe.
Vi quoto l’articolo di iSpazio:
L’introduzione di questo nuovo servizio era fondamentale per Google dato che il suo sistema operativo (Chrome OS) sarà basato completamente sul Web....
Perché Apple deve comprare Bing e Firefox
E’ chiaro che Apple e Google, dopo una lunga amicizia, sono ormai in rotta di collisione e presto diventeranno i due grandi rivali del web.
Entrambe hanno due browser che concorrono per le stesse quote di mercato.
Entrambe hanno lanciato un cellulare.
Entrambe hanno comprato un’azienda sulle pubblicità per cellulari.
Entrambe hanno un browser.
Entrambe hanno un sistema operativo....
Il Tablet
Visto che ci siamo quasi, posso anche fare un riassuntino delle previsioni più plausibili che ho letto in giro riguardo il Tablet.
E’ ovvio che si sapranno per certo le caratteristiche solo il 27, ma è quasi sicuro che:
non avrà come sistema operativo né snow leonard né l’iphone OS. Apple molto probabilmente creerà un nuovo strato sopra Snow Leopard, seguendo l’esempio...
reboot
ok, ho deciso di tornare a scrivere in italiano sul blog. O almeno, mischierò articoli in inglese e in italiano, senza continuità.
questo perché mi sono accorto che ci sono cose davvero belle che si dicono nella parte inglese della rete, soprattutto oltreoceano, ma che in italia non ho mai visto parlarne.
il problema dello scrivere in inglese è che nessuno mi conosce, quindi scrivo, ok, ma non...
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design →
Too many details or few details produce the same result: mess.
Read this interesting post about comics, interfaces and levels of details
“It doesn’t feel very optional to be a significant player in the computer...”
– Steve Ballamer
High Caffeine Content: Apple Planning Own Search Engine?
Apple, are you hearing me?
Beatles infographics →
Amazing charts about the beatles’s: songs and songwriters, self references and keys
“Love this bit from page four, on why people love to save files to their...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: John Siracusa Looks Back at His Decade-Ago Early Mac OS X Reviews
Stop Being a Productivity Nerd | Feint →
Self-explanatory title
Where do I start to read?
I like Organizing your way, it’s a nice site with helpful tips. But take a look at this screenshot:
Even with Chrome (one of the most light browser) and a resolution of 1280x800, I can barely read the first two lines of the real content.
I don’t say they should remove everything from their site except the post, but a different placement of the various elements would improve the...
“why the effort to give Snow Leopard a smaller storage footprint? It sounds like...”
– Questions About Apple’s Software and Hardware Decisions
YET.
“One of the things you learn as you go through this journey is that every age has...”
– Learning doesn’t stop at 22. (Scripting News)
He’s right, but I’d like to say something about the topic. Yeah, being 30+ doesn’t mean your abilities to learn something new are destroyed, but are somehow slowed down.
You can see a proof looking at young children that can...
An Amalgamation of Predictions and Questions... →
Interesting post written by ShawnBlanc that summarize every prediction made by guys like Gruber and Marco regarding the Apple Tablet.
I agree with him in almost every aspect because he’s not so optimistic like others, particularly on the “revolutionary OS” thing.
“That said, I’ve tried out more than a few browsers over the years and almost...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: A Week With Chrome for Mac
Same experience here. I used to use Firefox on Ubuntu and Windows, when I switched to Mac I tried Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera and Chrome.
I have spent some time using Safari, but it just didn’t look right. I felt something was...
Il Mac Minimalista
Per coloro che mi leggono e sono italiani: ho aperto un nuovo blog, Il Mac Minimalista
un piccolo estratto dal primo (e finora unico) post:
Il Mac Minimalista nasce con un intento preciso: diffondere il più possibile l’idea di minimalismo applicata al Mac.
Da quando ho abbracciato la filosofia del minimalismo mi sono accorto di quanto può essere liberatoria. Eliminare il disordine e il...
WatchTouchscreen sensibility analysis
I wonder why the iphone has the only one touchscreen that screws sensibility at the borders. Its errors are not tiny, they are huge. And you can easily see that no other smartphone sucks so much at borders, even the motorola (the worse). There have been 4 iphones and this is still not fixed?
“Apple was quick out the door with a box that plugs into your HDTV and streams...”
– Thoughts on what an Apple tablet should be – or not ::SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
I really hope they have learnt from their mistakes. Our lifes would be improved, not only their wallets.
“If there was one thing that drew me to this platform, it was the indie...”
– Gruber and the Tablet App Store
Oh well, there are no indie devs and apps in the appstore so your fear is reasonable. Haha.
I mean, the appstore is filled with so many indie devs, maybe too much (lot of crap out there) and you complain that an OSX appstore would screw everything up? Yeah, maybe...
“It is harder to think of doing something than to do it”
– mempko at Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought
Well, you can procastinate or just do it. I suggest you the second
“we wanted to make it fast and easy to find out more about a place in your...”
– I know this is the consequential step of the gps in the phones and access to internet. bit it still amazes me, it’s kind of living in the future you’ve always imagined
Finding places “Near me now” is easier and faster than ever on Google.com
“The Tablet is Apple’s chance at applying the lessons learned on the iPhone to a...”
– Marco.org
Oh God, finally someone translates my thought in a post.
Computers weren’t made for home-users at first, they were suitable for scientists, big companies and so on. The concept of the computer hasn’t changed in fifty years, perhaps the only big change was the introduction...
“Of over 100,000 available iPhone apps, none of them is a playable Euchre game,...”
–
Marco.org - There aren’t any good apps for that
WatchNice talk about Aesthetics.
“After a weekend of vacation-forced brainfreeze and dealing with immense family...”
– Thank you, internet
“Sitting at a desk wasn’t enough to persuade George Washington to stop killing...”
– Against Reflective Equilibrium (or, What is ethics for?) (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
“People who fail to write novels don’t do it by sitting in front of a blank page...”
“Something I feel is important is you need to learn to enjoy every moment of your...”
– Mistakes Beginners Make
This concept can be applied as well to ANY skill you are learning, even your life itself. Just be aware of it.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
– Aristotle, via RowdyKittens
“The moral of this story is that so many of us, in an attempt to be liked by...”
– Creative Organizing
“And so in answer to my central question, regarding why buy The Tablet if you...”
– Daring Fireball: The Tablet
Read the full post, Gruber’s analysis is amazing.