Myke and Terry were kind enough to invite me to be on this week’s episode of The Bro Show.
This time around, we discussed in-app purchasing, Lodsys, the Apple/Twitter relationship, WWDC and more. Be sure to stick around to the end for a special announcement by yours truly.
What if our home was destroyed and we lost all our belongings? Or what if someone were to break in and rob us? Apart from one another, the only irreplaceable things in our house are the priceless memories, work, and other information that we keep on our computers.
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If there ever were a situation where grabbing the external drive on the way out the door wasn’t an option, or if it were destroyed by a tornado, or if it were stolen, then we would I lose year’s worth of photos and music as well as access to much of our livelihood, including the documents and passwords related to our business, finances, etc.
And yes, we rewind and talk about eWorld.
For the last several years, my basic computing setup has been the same: an iMac at home and a work-provided MacBook Pro.1
I’ve always had the luxury to use my work notebook as a personal machine, which makes life a lot more convenient.
However, over the last year or so, I’ve developed a growing hesitancy about taking my work notebook home. Bringing it home means I was bringing work home — something I don’t like doing, especially with two young kids.
My first week with iOS 5 hasn’t been earth shattering, but it has been ground breaking. What Apple has accomplished is reducing friction in the user experience. They prove time and time again that they can repeat this action, which is more than competitors can claim.
I totally agree.
I learned a good bit reading this article.
I’m proud to announce that Forkbombr has joined the excellent Carbon Ads network.
Carbon delivers high-quality, relevant ads on some of the best websites in our corner of the Internet. Needless to say, I’m excited and honored to be a member of such a fine fraternity.
I love webOS, and it looks great on the Touchpad. I wouldn’t mind getting one to play with one bit.
While I was attending WWDC last week, CNN said the PlayBook was the “herpes of tablets.” Apparently the news organization was trying to return the PlayBook to RIM and got no response.
CNN thought so little of the PlayBook that they would pull it out when really bad products were sent to them and say, “But at least it’s not as bad as the PlayBook!”
Here is the world’s second richest man, in a fantastic interview with Mail Online:
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy. If people look and see that childhood deaths dropped from nine million a year to four million because of our investment, then wow! I liken what I’m doing now to my old job. I worked with a lot of smart people; some things went well, some didn’t go so well. But when you see how what we did ended up empowering people, it’s a very cool thing.
Marco, on Apple checking things off the list people keep when comparing phones:
Very few major items are still on that list that I think Apple would actually change. But it’s usually unwise to say that Apple will “never” do something. And it looks like they’re willing to do quite a lot to get more iPhone customers, even if a change require temporarily suspending some of their usual priorities.
When speculating on what Apple will or won’t do, a change that gets them more iPhone customers is probably worth considering even if you think they’d “never” do it. iPhone customer acquisition is a higher priority than almost everything else.