I realise that has nothing to do with this article.
Sorry.
]]>Back on topic, I’ve got several memorable experiences at Uni, however from a course pov one of the most memorable times was a lecture we had by someone at philips. He was telling us about the future of electronics and how they’re going, and traditionally how they’re designed to be 10 years ahead of when they’re going to release the actual products themselves. This was nearly 5 years ago, and he was then talking about the Terrabit coming out in 2010. A single storage device that could potentially hold more than you could accumilate in all your life. Well at least that’s what they thought 5 years ago. Now I wouldn’t be so sure that statistic was correct.
He talked about multi-layered terrabits, and the need for them (3d television, which apparently was up and running 5 years ago), but that it was the responsibility of our generation. You can imagine what an electronics geek like me felt heaing all this. Great stuff.
]]>Actually, while I suspect you’re probably correct about Apple and the US phone market, it does mean that (given that they are, at least, dabbling their toes in the water) they have the opportunity to defy that history and become more of an international company, moving on opportunities wherever they happen to present themselves. It doesn’t seem likely, but it will certainly interesting to see how things develop from here.
Thanks for the kind words on the comments form; I was a little worried that the form would seem to float free of the design, especially with the indented paragraph just above the textarea. Still, design neurosis is rather my stock in trade. :)
]]>You raise some pretty interesting concepts regarding to a complete touch screen phone. No need for the actual buttons, or at the very least 1 button just to activate the actual ‘numbers pad’. Actually I really like that idea, and while the current technology isn’t really there yet (although I know for a fact that they’ve got that stuff working in the labs), it’s a question of when/if they decide to release it really.
I don’t think Apple will storm the mobile phone industry, simply because it’s main base of operations is the states, a country that isn’t really known for it’s mobile phone industry, more lack of that industry.
Also just wanted to say that I love your comments form, very cool.
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