Archive for the 'Technology' Category


iPhone 5

It’s too expensive. I’m in almost six hundred dollars, and I’m not sure the end is in sight. SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS? Well, first the phone. Which is $369.36. But they advertise it for $199! But I bought the 32 gig model for $299, upon which I got a discount of $30. The rest is…tax. You […]

History

SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You may be angry that Apple changed its connector, but look what backward compatibility did for Microsoft… It kept the company in the doldrums to the point where the Redmond enterprise completely missed tablet computing […]

My iPhone 5

I don’t trust people. I could have ordered my iPhone 5 on September 21st. I’m awake at that hour. But knowing I was going out of town I waited… That was a mistake. Then they said you could order online and pick it up in the store the next day. Turns out too many people […]

Your Catalog

It’s a marathon, not a sprint. I just finished reading David Pogue’s review of the Surface, Microsoft’s iPad competitor. The hardware is jaw-dropping, the software is baffling and the whole thing is a no-go because there are no apps. Apple just pushed the envelope with its latest iPads this morning. But even if they did […]