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no details, no design
The details are not the details. They make the design.- Charles Eames
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Transformers - Fallen
Roger Ebert's review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
Seems I won't be seeing this flick after all.
...although, my reaction to this review is the same as driving by a car accident.
I have to look, if only for a second.
Flash on my mobile phone
PC World: Coming Soon: Adobe Flash on Android, WinMo, and WebOS
All I have to say is, Flash sites kicked on my old Powerbook's cooling fans faster than a mouse click - I can't wait to see what it does on mobile devices.
I have no problem with a Flash-less iPhone.
Intel, Nokia, and their majestic Unicorn
"Trust me guys - it's going to be AWESOME."
Problem is, when you make statements like that, 'it' usually doesn't end up that awesome.
'It' usually never gets made, or 'it' just ends up a piece of crap.
It's essentially what Intel & Nokia announced in a press release on Intel's website on their new alliance - Intel and Nokia Announce Strategic Relationship to Shape Next Era of Mobile Computing Innovation.
"This Intel and Nokia collaboration unites and focuses many of the brightest computing and communications minds in the world, and will ultimately deliver open and standards-based technologies, which history shows drive rapid innovation, adoption and consumer choice," said Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Corporation senior vice president and general manager, Ultra Mobility Group. "With the convergence of the Internet and mobility as the team's only barrier, I can only imagine the innovation that will come out of our unique relationship with Nokia. The possibilities are endless."
Of course the possibilities are endless. All the big wigs at Intel and Nokia probably had some great brainstorming sessions on "the possibilities" - imagining all sorts of Minority Report gadgets that can communicate in any medium and control everything from your television to your car to your house, 'with a push of a button'.
My brother Mark coined a term for this behavior of announcing something you eagerly want and have every intention of doing, but haven't done - Chimera's Lens. He introduced this to me many years ago when he asked me, "Imagine something funny .......see? Isn't that funny?"
This is the same thing as saying "Picture the best mobile device... like, uh, picture something even better than the best mobile phone.... how fucking cool is that?".
Microsoft is also having a bitch of a time launching real operating system updates, but they had no problem envisioned the year 2019:
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, Apple continues on it's upward track of success with the very real iPhone and the new paradigm of mobile software and mobile commerce they created - despite numerous blasts from the media over the years on their evil secrecy. The New York Times just published a new article titled, "Apple’s Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger".
Nokia and Intel would benefit greatly by adopting some of this 'secrecy'. It doesn't even have to be secrecy, it could simply be keeping their mouths shut until that have something built to show off. This is what most of the media are referring to when they say 'secrecy'.
The media doesn't mind when no-name companies keep their product development under wraps do they? They don't mind because a lot of no-name companies produce garbage.
Until Nokia and Intel actually produce some game-changing software or hardware products, their press release is really quite pointless.
UPDATE: What I forgot to mention on the positive note is I'm loving the fact that they've decided to use Linux Mobile as the software platform.
focus on the experience
Richard Ziade over at basement.org has a great post on content owners and their obsession to protect their content:
It wasn’t about getting stuff for free. The iPod/iTunes ecosystem is testament to the fact that people are willing to pay for a quality experience, even if there are fringe alternatives out there for free. The mistake the content owners made was that they believed their content had value in a vacuum. It doesn’t. Content is part of the experience.
it's why I'm an interactive designer
Amplify!!!
You don’t differentiate by copying the most attractive brand you can find. ... No, you have to isolate that which is uniquely yours and amplify it compellingly.
Eric Karjaluoto shares an experience I think a lot of us designers have had as well and offers some sound advice. (via We are all Analogue)
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