The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Tech Giants
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon
Google going into wireless internet access is the most exciting of all. That is what will help Google zoom past the rest. Mobile hardware will soon be commodity. Facebook going into search is also interesting.
Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook: Coalition Partners
Why Apple Can't Do TV
Could Apple Do TV?
Has Apple Peaked?
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The Seven Incher
So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet
The battery says 11 hours left when fully charged, but I don't think that's accurate. A few hours later it said 45% left, that was two plus hours. If it is four or five hours, that is plenty.
Amazon Kindle is my favorite app. I have loaded up about 15 classics, all available for free. These books alone make me feel like the tablet came to me for free.
Anna Karenina
A Tale of Two Cities
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References)
Gitanjali
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Human Biology - Genetics
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Leaves of Grass
Crime and Punishment
The Art of War
The United States Constitution
Aesop's Fables
How to Speak and Write Correctly
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
Gettysburg Address
In the Days of Washington A Story of The American Revolution
I expect to download many more free classics. I expect to buy a few. I expect to borrow. Some libraries allow you to borrow books on the Kindle, no?
The first book I started reading was The Art Of War. Bookmarking the last page you read is a treat.
So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet
Believe it or not, this is the first "touch" device I have owned. I bought it online at nomorerack.com for 75 bucks, tax included. The market price is 200 bucks.
The Nexus 4 I did manage to place an order for the final week of November is still nowhere in sight. I am thinking it might show up by mid January. And so I needed to get my hands on something. I happened upon this deal. It says Made In China. Go China.
I was thinking the 99 dollar seven inch Nexus 7 rumor might be true. So far it does not seem to be holding. Heck, the 199 dollar Nexus 7 has long been out of stock.
I am too active when I am surfing. I am constantly typing away. So for me touch is not where it is at. It is nice to have. But it was never going to be heavy duty.
I got into the obvious games - Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Temple Run - and stacked up some books on my Amazon Kindle app. That Kindle app might be the key attraction for me.
I also had to go online to buy a case for the seven incher. I think I paid six bucks, and free shipping.
I might be running late, but below $100 is the right global price point for this tablet. This is the "one laptop per child" we all have been waiting for. I expect functionalities to get better over time.
I can see me reading books on the train.
It is a sorry little thing though. I think it has 2GB of spare space. And the battery might last a little over two hours.
Wait until I get my hands on my Nexus 4. Now that comes with bragging rights.
Nexus 4 Magic Waiting To Happen
Nexus 4: My First Smartphone
The Best Christmas Gift One Can Hope For
Monday, December 24, 2012
Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook: Coalition Partners
Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook. True, these are the tech giants at the cutting edge, and it is but natural that they might have turf wars - good for the consumer - but I still see it as them working together to eat up more and more of the traditionally offline action. More and more advertising will move to the digital realm. More and more searching will happen online. More and more buying will happen online. More and more socializing will have online components.
Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013
Lurking in the shadows for both Google and Amazon is Facebook with its own search and advertising ambitions. .... "Amazon wants to be the one place where you buy everything. Google wants to be the one place where you find everything, of which buying things is a subset.... So when you marry those facts I think you're going to see a natural collision." .... 96 percent of Google's $38 billion in 2011 sales came from advertising. ..... But Amazon's newly developed "DSP" technology, which taps into the company's vast store of consumer purchase history to help marketers target ads at specific groups of people on Amazon.com and on other websites, could change all that. ... "From a client's perspective, the data that Amazon owns is actually better than what Google has.....They know what you just bought, and they also know what you are right now trying to buy." ..... By showing ads for products that it may not actually sell on its own website, Amazon establishes itself as a starting point for consumers looking to buy something on the Web.
Can Google Challenge Apple Without Apple's Manufacturing Prowess?
Steve Jobs did the marketing pizazz, it was Cook who really built that chain capable of churning out tens of millions of pieces of a new product in the first quarter after release. ..... They can actually execute on a large scale out there in the physical world.
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