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This has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?
Computing as we’ve known it is over. (Reminder edition)
Just a quick thought.
Asymco has a nice writeup inspired by Apple’s new iPad ad that talks about skyrocketing iPad sales but the ad from Apple really nails the beginning of the end for computing as we’ve known it.
There are no tech specs, no MHz, no RAM. It’s entirely about what people want to do with the things they buy. This keyboard for example, as my hands lumber across from key to key, this represents everything that we’ve known about computing for the past 20 years. It’s never been something that a person has truly wanted to buy, it’s only been the good-enough-for-now system of input.
Hell, I write this on a MacBook Air 11”, which I would argue to be the single best portable laptop ever made, and it’s a complete dud as to how it’s so wrong for the things I want to do. Not everyone agrees that people will abandon their laptops in droves to iPads and tablets (there is no way in hell I could) but I would argue that as the new era of post-computing begins with the iPhone, Android, iPad & such; it’s time to place bets for better making things that people want to do rather than what they can do with today’s computing tech.
Maybe a simpler way to put it would be: either keep up or GTFO.
“Razorfish’s Paul Gelb: Mobile Ad Spend Will Overtake TV”
I believe we’re living in one of the most transformative times in history.
Nice essay for those who believe.
Some of my thoughts on the iAd platform that were posted on our company’s blog:
The big thing that iAd really does is it brings new thinking into the capabilities of mobile display advertising and it wasn’t brought to you by Google. Google has been badly lagging in all aspects of mobile and Apple probably saw the lack of innovation in the mobile advertising market and decided to put their stake in the ground. Let’s also be clear here that mobile display advertising isn’t yet a billion dollar business, this isn’t about the money for Apple but reshaping the industry as they saw fit.
The bottom line for Apple is the continuing creation of new and free apps for the App Store while everything else, like being the innovator in mobile advertising, sticking it to Google, pre-emptively blocking Adobe are just bonuses.
How crazy awesome is it that we got a presentation from the former CEO of Quattro?
29 € for 60 minutes on Orange, ready to use and contract-free. Jason Bourne would be proud. Wonderful concept.
pwei:
“Windows Phone 7 is hanging over them (Windows Mobile 6.5 phones) like a particularly sharp and heavy Damoclean sword.”
Will we get bored of Four Square or is there a generational shift at play?
