Teh overthinking of shizz

At work, looking out of one window almost straight ahead, there was crazy rainy downpour. Looking out the window immediately to my left, there was sunshine and a visible blue sky. I dont know about you, but sitting in a room splitting nice weather with dysmal weather over just a few meters made me feel special. I was right in the smack middle between rain and sunshine!

In case you have missed it, there’s a smart phone war blazing over teh internetz and in the media. One flag hails the iPhone, the other Android. After watching this war, appalled at all the dirt and misunderstandings, I now feel the need to clear things up a bit…

Personal preference regarding what is quality in a smart phone seems to vary greatly between groups of people. The whole core in the iPhone-Android-chasm stems from the single fact that some people prefer one pakage before the other. If you wonder, these two  ”packages” are loosely:

1) easy simple but effective and functionally designed GUI’s and elegant designs

whilst other prefer

2) state of the art hardware, diversity and customizable GUI’s and “the extension of” freedom of choice

You can draw a clear parallel to the PC world, at least when looking at it historically. In this parallel, the iPhone camp are the people preferring Mac or Windows computers, and the Android camp are Linux users. Similarities also extend to the political sides where Linux and Android fans prefer the open source - “free” political environment, whilst the iPhone side as well as the Mac / Windows users are content with a well working OS and doesn’t care much about the politics…

Android fan

Please realize that there is a property of iPhone’s that you have overlooked, besides coolness and hip. Yes, it is the “magical property” you’ve been wondering about that makes so many others “foolishly” buy the Apple phones regardless of the facts that you present as reasons not to buy. There is evidence that there is something (this property) that sells the iPhone so well, since its a major success around the world. Just look at their sales figures. Now the big reveal, it’s *drumroll*

the design, both of the phone itself and the iOS GUI.

Now this is something I would wager that you never would have considered even remotely important, since its not very configurable… Just realize that everyone has the right to their own taste, and that the people buying iPhone’s have different needs from you, and therefore are NOT idiots for buying a product they value the most.

iPhone fan

Although I rarely see this, unless its a random troll, never bash Android fans for choosing Androids. Instead, when faced with a Android fan that says that you are a fool (and from what I can see, this happens a lot) for buying and iPhone, just point out that you evaluated other phones, and since you have a different taste than he/she you ended up with the best choice for you. If he/she still persists, smack them over the head with a large stick. Mostly, just enjoy your smart phone!

Well, that was this summers holidays, one week at Cyprus, and one back home in Sweden… Now back to work… @@

Somehow, this picture of David Lee Roth worries me… And for the copyright: I do _not_ own any rights to this image (at least not that I know of) - its linked - not reproduced or copied…

Its been a long while since my last update. *injects some adrenaline* Wohooo. Lets see if that does the trick. Its been a serious shitload of other stuff going down so the “time-slicer-o-mat” cut this blog off.

But just look at that. LOOK IT…. The picture haz my moonraker DeLoiran on it! And know that I returned to teh Interweb!

nostrich:

What happens when a bunch of non-mechanically inclined nerds, with no knack for design, decide it would be a good idea to build a MAME (arcade) cabinet? Lots of really ugly shit happens. That’s what.

There are some truths in life that some people are not willing to accept; All babies are not cute, all old ladies are not sweet, not every man’s wife is beautiful, and YOUR MAME CABINET PROBABLY SUCKS.

This is just awesome.

One benefit I can see here is that you could probably ram one of those tall trigger sticks up your ass while you’re playing driving games — or maybe just rest your nuts on it. Nothing like a good nut rest.

I laughed so hard I cried!

Some tweaking and prodding and deflating and finally reasembly of my tumbler led to what I concider a visual improvement. I might have overdone the colorful googlesque logo, but that will have to do for now. Im fairly satisfied with the look and feel now. The only thing left is to start adding more personal content on a regular basis… ;p

mUAHAHAA… Indeed!