iPad sets me free – that is the revolution

Maybe I’m the slowest guy in the western world, but I haven’t been able to explain the feeling that the iPad is great and a revolution. Even though I’m not an Apple fan boy, I’ve felt that this is huge. But now I know. It’s the location that is the key.

Until today, we’ve seen two types of computer usage – one in front of a laptop, usually at a desk, and one where we use a small iPhone or Android device. The laptop situation is good for working solitary, but you are very limited in what you can physically do – leaving your desk is not an option.

The iPhone situation is almost reversed. You are free to do anything you want, but then you have only a fragment of a real computer experience. The simplicity of popular iPhone applications have shown us just that – Twitter, short messages, geo location games are small, simple and perfect for a small device.

So when Steve Jobs showed a picture of the iPhone as filling a void between the laptop and the iPhone he certainly had a point. But his graph was very misleading. The void should be much, much larger than the iPhone and the iMac squares. By making real computer usage possible in many more aspects of life, such as in the living room, on the subway, around a table, in the kitschen, the car, etc, he makes the computer a lot more important.

The iPad and the tablet means mainstream usage of computers in every aspect of your life. It’s impossible to know what the killer app of the 2010:s will be, but I bet they will be tablet based.

Techcrunch is terribly wrong about the IPhone Store Policy

The blogpost over at Techcrunch telling developers to stop complaining about the IPhone App Store is terrible. They argue that you can either accept everything Apple says and develop for the Iphone, or simply move to another platform.

Of course, that is complete rubbish. We're living in an online world where people complain and discuss business practises in every thinkable way. If you're unhappy with a company, you complain, get a reaction, and then decides to stay or leave that company, product or service.

Smart companies appreciates this and have a very active relationship with their community, rendering happier customers and increased revenue.
Apple in particular is a company with a hardcore community where that act as Apple evangelists, and Apple nurture this relationship as much as they can.

When Dan Kimerling suddenly says that developers should stop complaining over the IPhone stores pretty strange application policies, he actually says that Apple is off limit. To me, he sounds like a dinousaur from the Mac/PC-wars of the 80's and 90's. Maybe he's defencive since Microsoft's latest ad campaign is pretty nice, or maybe he just can't cope with the fact that Apple is far from perfect. But it's weird to read this on a blog with a nice history of bringing light to high profile online customer power.

I just don't understand this. Maybe he's just trying to fill his Apple / Iphone quota.

I'm pretty tired of hearing about the IPhone. It has a nice interface and might be a great catalyst for mobile browsing, but I don't need to know every little detail on everything happening with the IPhone. Apple's done a great job promoting the phone, and Apple has created a nice Application store [although it's not that new, at least not here in Europe. I can send an sms and get ringtones, games and applications directly to my phone, and that certainly isn't anything new. The turnover of all the phonerelated sales of games, screensavers and ringtones has been considerable for quite a while now. The new thing is that they actually get early adapters to go to one central site for buying applications, and that they have a nearly perfectly closed developer/sales platform].

I like the IPhone, but as I said, I'm not excited enough to hear about it every single day and hour. I can't wait for the Google phone to enter the market, so that I at least can read about a product from a company that I not only respect (I respect apple), but also like a lot.


And last but not least - I really enjoy techcrunch, I'm reading the blog every day! This is simply my way of giving Techcrunch my feedback to them since I want their business and blog to be even better!

SonyEricsson Xperia X1 an Apple IPhone killer?

SonyEricsson has launched their newest and cooles cellphone ever, the Xperia X1. It's pretty obvious that it is their answer to the IPhone, with a huge screen and tighter Internet functionality. On the technical side, everything seems really impressive: Better screen resolution than the IPhone, faster Internet connection, built in GPS and a better camera.

But that just isn't enough. The Xperia isn't near as attractive as the IPhone, no matter how impressive it's technical specifications. Because IPhone is cool and has a great interface. SonyEricsson is far from cool, and with a Microsoft Operating System, you can be sure that the interface wont be nearly as good as the IPhone interface.

Whereas Apple has one of the best brands in the world, SonyEricsson and Microsoft has not. Well, not when it comes to cool gadgets anyway. SonyEricsson are great for business phones, and Microsoft have a much better product base with Windows, Office and their servers, but they just aren't cool.

My guess is that the Xperia is an overpriced phone ju between the business segment and the young hip segment. And as always, branding is everything, not reaching any segment totally successfull is nothing.

Why is Widsets so slow and how should it compete with IPhone?

I recently wrote about reinstalling widsets on my phone, and now that I've been using it again for a while I am still a happy user. However, with the last update, it freezes for a couple of seconds while starting (and loading new content), and it also feels a bit slower than before. Of course, it might be just my phone or my connection, but I've never had this problem before.

Recently I also thought about building an app for a professional site where I'm a part of the development team, but I figured that the user count is still to small.
The API however, seems really good, so here is what I'd like to see:

1) More users: Partner up with mobile operators, making the widset program preinstalled and hopefully even with a shortcut. The advantage for the mobile operator is obvious, the preinstalled user could then match their needs, and have a operator custom background etc.

2) Better incentive for content partners: When a widset widget is developed to provide content to a site, widsets should provide a "stand-alone" version of the program to the developing partner. The stand-alone version would then be installable and maby even branded by the third party site, containing only content from the third party.
Everyone would be happy then, the developing partner gets a branded javaprogram that he's happy to market on his own site, plus all possible users using the normal widsets program. Widsets on the other hand, will get more content for their software, making it more popular, and a large database of potential customers.

Steve Jobs 90 minute keynote in 1 minute - Apple, MacBook Air, IPhone :)

This is really cool, and you probably read about it on Techcrunch. But it is really cool, and I want that on my blog!

Anyway, Steve Jobs keynote speech at the Mac conference is not worth 90 minutes of my life. It is, however, worth one minutes attention. The Daily Manolo was kind enough to compress the speech for the rest of us, and here it is:

IPhone, IPhone, IPhone - I haven't been this excited since I got my Amiga...

...and that was 20 years ago. Well, that would be not this excited over technology. Anyway, today I finally tested the IPhone. I can hear you say "so what, the buzz is over now", but since I live in the country of ericsson, Sweden, and not in the US, I haven't seen one until now. So what is my verdict?
I already knew that the IPhone had a great screen, terrific interface and was good looking, but what I couldn't dream of was that the IPhone deserves the Nobel Price in Interface creation! I tried it for half an hour and I loved every minute of it.

300 pages IPhone bill...

It turned out that it was the Justine featured below (ijustine.tv) that got the famous 300 pages IPhone bill last week. I also want to add that she seems like a really nice person, and that her videos are pretty good. But the life-airing is still a pretty interesting phenomena.

IPhone nano rumour

Apple is developing a IPhone nano. Or at least there's a rumour going around saying they are.
My question is: What's left with IPhone if you remove the big, beautiful screen? Not very much.

A Microsoft Surface Nano is more likely. This time just about the same size as a toaster.

IPhone fever: IPhone Case Holster on Ebay

It's an IPhone fever out there. A search on IPhone on ebay renders over 1000 results, and the phone haven't even hit the stores yet. And it doesn't even have 3g capabilities.

Microsoft Surface continued...

It actually even looks like an IPhone ;-) But you can't call.

Microsoft Surface Parody vs IPhone Parody

I know I'm not the first blog around the world to discover this, but I must say that this parody of the Microsoft Surface thingy is pretty right on the spot. Why did they have to do it so huge? It's really cool technology, but compared to IPhone it's nothing.

What I want is a 6 inch multisensitive touchscreen with wlan, nothing more, nothing less.


Microsoft Surface product thingy Parody



IPhone parody