In May 2017 Satya Nadella made a revealing comment. “Our next phones won’t look like phones,” he said, opening the door to a return to a field in which they had failed completely with Windows Phone and that Windows 10 also tried to conquer our smartphones. It did not succeed on that occasion either, so …
Category: Opinion
Much has been said about the removal of the headphone jack in the new iPhone 7/Plus, and John Gruber has added is own commentary: Choosing to do what you *know* will be unpopular in the short run but you *believe* will prove correct in the long run takes courage. The problem with Gruber argument is …
I was reading another thoughtful piece by Vlad Savov at the Verge and I thought I could write a comment there. Quoting Savov when he was explaining the current trend in launch events: I think we lose something (maybe not entirely tangible) when we adapt the presentation of technological products to the lowest-common-denominator audience. Apple …
Three old men are the reason I haven’t written a word here when I should have written a lot of them. Our country is so kind and generous to kids that we don’t have just one gift party here (Santa, which is called Papá Noel over here and pays a visit at Christmas day), but two. …
We spent less than $100 to give a completely fake business a great online reputation. Fantastic history. One you can easily learn something from. You can’t be certain anymore about that business or that product based on online reviews. Creating fake alternatives and getting certain reputation for them is nowadays quite easy. As with many …
If you pretend to be succesful in technology, you have to surprise us first. Do it at any cost. Present the smaller (or bigger) next big thing, the cheapest (or even the most expensive), or the one with that technology advance that seems unavoidable. You’ve got our attention. Now prove that feature really pays off. …
This weekend The New York Times published an incendiary article about work culture at Amazon. It wasn’t much of a surprise, really: anyone who has read “The Everything Store”, by Brad Stone, already knew what can you find inside Amazon. Those horror aren’t new, but when several former employees showed their hands and some as the NYT …