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The half-eaten Apple temptation strickes again...

nah,… preferred a Burberry coat

Pasta Hut

oh yes….

iPhone Security Hole....

Most definitely :p

Btw.. How’s life up in Newcastle…?

Shopping in london

Mouxaxa

BTW gamhsane ta papoutsakia…

Being a consultant...

AAAAA…. Dont remind me…. In UK consultants travel in the country, in Greece they travel between bars and cafes

iPhone part 2.0... Queue frenzy!

Well, I’ve managed to update it on Thursday, before todays panic, so if you havent, you’d better hold off till Monday…

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9989039-1.html?hhTest=1&part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Bag-Borrow-or-Steal

Hahaha… Didn’t you see that it was Nuan’s entry

Photo was from Christmas in Paris, next to the temple

A word or two on the digital age

Ah… The purpose of the article is a quick overview of the digital age, the decade of 00’s. Apple brand was mentioned once in the article, same as credit was given to Microsoft for the innovations during the 90’s. From my perspective, and I stress that, Microsoft stopped revolutionising in the 2000’s. Became a big, slow organisation where great ideas get lost and evolution is preferred to revolution.

On the Apple side, there seems to be some misunderstandings, even though I did not want to focus on Apple in the article.

“Just to set some examples, you can only buy music through their iTunes store, there is no software to install to iPhone other than the default one and even worst you can’t even customise its interface! Ok, I get it Apple! I am a stupid sucker for gadgets and I don’t know anything about how they work”

Completely wrong on this one… You can add web apps on the iPhone, purchase, download for free and distribute applications from the App-Store which has been announced and will go live on Monday…

“You can only buy music from their iTunes store”

Not true… You can upload MP3’s, MP4’s, AAC files and purchace music from Amazon, Napster and all the other music stores that sell DRM-free MP3s. Apple just integrated a service in a product and that’s what made it successful.

“Anyway, I don’t think it will be long until another brand launches a competitive series of trend-making digital products and then we will find out if Apple made a long lasting product like Windows which set their mark in the digital age or just a top-selling fashion gadget series that faded away through the course of time.”

Well, Apple has made its mark in the digital content business with round 80% market share for its iPod and 1st position in music retailing in US, including physical stores. This is the mark of the 00’s, along with Netbooks like the Asus EEE, which have founded a brand new category in personal computing.

I dont claim the above, the market does. Windows is still the king, but with a reducing market share. The innovation and the spotlight is now elsewhere though (Web 2.0, Facebook, Google, Netbooks, the iPhone).

Trip to Bangalore

Den kserw Mono agelades eida! A, kai des ton kapno sthn prwth photo… Einai entomoktono, gia ta kounoupia! An vgeis eksw oso psekazoun, thn evapses….

Trip to Bangalore

Kai den exeis dei tipota … Tha anevasw kamia photo apo thn twrinh episkepsi, an kataferw na vgw katholou