Steve Jobs - brilliant nut job

http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/11-most-startling-revelations-steve-jobs-185102154.html

"He Was Attracted to Brilliant Women and Drove Them Crazy

In the mid 80's, around the time he was ousted from Apple, he met a computer consultant named Tina Redse and later described her as "the first woman I truly loved."

They lived together for years, through swings of intense passion and severe emotional detachment. After one epic fight, she scrawled the words "neglect is a form of abuse" on the wall of their apartment. After rejecting his marriage proposal in 1989, Redse told Isaacson that she eventually decided he suffered from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. "Expecting him to be nicer or less self-centered was like expecting a blind man to see," she said.

He met Laurene Powell during a lecture at Stanford, and on a whim, blew off a dinner with a team from Apple, took her out for vegan food and they were together--in one way or another--ever since. After proposing to her on the first day of 1990, Jobs didn't mention it again for months. Even after she'd gotten pregnant with their son, Reed, Jobs remained so detached that Powell moved out. He tried to reunite with Redse and asked a number of friends who was prettier, Tina or Laurene? Who should he marry?"

Here's the picture of the tablet user

I know we are geeks ourselves but this is going too far.

Seen at Disneyland. A 10" tablet is not a digital camera. It is too big and ungainly and much more likely to be dropped. I don't know who to slap first, the consumer or the manufacturer. I guess it is smaller than a VHS recorder...

We saw someone else in line today with an iPad... Playing solitaire. Because Disneyland is just a little too much like a sensory deprivation chamber, i guess. Dada just reminded me that that guy was only in line for ice cream!

Motorola RAZR vs Samsung Galaxy SII

Hey, they're on different carriers in the US, (Razr on Verizon and SII on ATT) , but still an interesting review.

Here's a website I think you'll like: Motorola RAZR vs Samsung Galaxy S II - Pocket-lint

"As ever, there are wins on both sides but, on paper, the RAZR looks to be a better handset. The screen is more impressive, the battery lasts longer and it's nicer in the hand and pocket. In a more strict, match play kind of approach, the result might not be the same, but the odd loss by 0.3 megapixels or 16GB probably isn't worth getting your knickers in a twist about. Really the only place where the RAZR is seriously lacking is with the lower-end graphics."

 from my HP TouchPad

Kayaker has close encounter with blue whale near Redondo Beach [VIDEO] - latimes.com

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/kayaker-has-close-encounter-with-whale-near-redondo-beach.html

Amazing video, but I think he got a little too close to the whale.

Social Navigation And Traffic App Waze Raises $30M From Kleiner Perkins And Li Ka-shing - TechCrunch

http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/social-navigation-and-traffic-app-waze-raises-30m-from-kleiner-perkins-and-li-ka-shing/

"Founded in 2009,Waze offers free apps for the iPhone,Android,Windows Phone 7,BlackBerry and other mobile platforms,that include turn-by-turn navigation for drivers,and at the same time,uses that user data to build out its own maps. If there are issues on the road,such as major traffic jams,all of that information comes in through the apps and can be sent to other drivers.

The apps rely on crowdsourced data,from driver-created maps,to citizen traffic reports, to community-curated points of interest. On average,Waze users are reporting a traffic jam every 4.2 second,and an accident every 44 seconds. With millions of users,that's a massive amount of data."

"US Newspapers" app

News junkies will like this Android App. Fast to load, and covers many local papers.

The phones my hubby is looking at - Nexus Prime, Droid Razr, HTC Vigor

Summary

Razr: too ugly to love

Vigor: almost but not quite as good as the...

Prime: one phone to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. 1024x720 Super AMO LED Screen! 4g! 1700mAhr battery! Ice Cream Sandwich!

 Compare phones: Google Nexus Prime, Motorola DROID RAZR, HTC Vigor

Brier Dudley's Blog | Gartner: iPad holding lead over Android, Win8 late | Seattle Times Newspaper

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2016284954_gartner_ipad_holding_lead_over.html

" The firm poured cold water on the prime challengers, saying Android tablets are selling slower than expected because of their shortcomings and Windows 8 tablets are too late to win over consumers.

Global tablet sales are on fire. Gartner predicted 63.6 million tablets will be sold this year, up 261 percent from the 17.6 million sold last year.

Apple's share of the Web tablet market will fall about 10 percent this year, to 73 percent, but it will continue to hold more than 50 percent of the market share until 2014, the firm said."

Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps - IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/steve-jobs-in-four-easy-steps/

"Jobs denied what is perhaps the most closely held article of faith of the information age: that openness and the wisdom of crowds are essential for successful technological systems. Under his leadership, Apple produced "closed" systems—devices whose basic functions could not be altered—and consumers loved them. "It's not the consumer's job to know what they want," Jobs once famously said."

ComScore: Android extends lead over Apple, holds 44 percent of smartphone market -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/comscore-android-extends-lead-over-apple-holds-44-percent-of-s

"Android remains in firm control of the smartphone platform market,commanding 43.7 percent,followed by Apple (27.3 percent) and RIM (19.7 percent). In fact, Google extended its share by nearly two points over last month's figures,while Apple's iOS grew by just 0.3 points,but further distanced itself from RIM,which now sits 7.6 points behind."

Roller Coaster Cat

Near Tragedy on Roller Coaster.. :)
http://i.imgur.com/mfwII.jpg

Shared using #RageReader for Android http://bit.ly/rreader

Kindle Fire, on fire!

http://www.slashgear.com/kindle-fire-tablet-sales-hit-250000-over-five-days-04185487/

"According to some leaked sales data, the total number of Amazon Kindle Fire tablets sold since being launched 5 days ago is hovering just over 250,000 units. Sales may have slowed down a bit since it was last estimated to have reached almost 100,000 units on its very first day, but it's nonetheless impressive, considering how other tablet rivals have fared.

The Kindle Fire may not have turned out to be the ulimate iPad-killer given the great disparity in specs and price point, but analysts still consider it to be a lot more competitive than expected. In comparison, Apple's iPad 2 sold 2.5 million units in its first month, which is about 80,000 units a day. Amazon's Kindle Fire is looking at about 50,000 units a day right now and that's not too shabby, especially when you consider that the Motorola XOOM is rumored to have sold only 100,000 units after a month and a half, while the BlackBerry PlayBook, which the Kindle Fire is modeled after, only sold 500,000 units total in its first quarter. But again, pricing is surely a huge factor and Amazon's known to be aggressive with that. The $199 price tag for the Kindle Fire is believed to be about $10 below the actual cost of each unit.

Sales of Amazon's Kindle Touch e-reader, however, have not been as impressive. According to the same source that leaked the sales data for the Kindle Fire, the WiFi and 3G e-reader has only sold 32,000 units in the five days since it launched."