825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
The USA is now a small outpost of the internet!
Monthly Archives: January 2011
The frontier is everywhere…
There is a moment that seems to have disappeared; the moment when we dreamt of a better future.
Carl Sagan was the the narrator of that moment and is sadly missed.
Respect for an organization…
“I came back here to work at a club that myself and my family are eternally grateful for many things they have done for us.
“When I was asked to do it, as I said yesterday, there was no way that I was going to be disrespectful and say ‘no’.”
Anfield Road » Kenny: There was no way I was going to say ‘no’..
Makes sense…
“Other benefits of being in the Mac App Store include the fact that we won’t need to spend time and energy developing our own update systems, web store shelves, licensing systems, anti-piracy measures, and other things like that.”
Pixelmator is a fantastic piece of software and it’s a fraction of the price of buying from Adobe. Adobe haven’t even turned for the fight.
This could be the start of something VERY big for them.
the Pruitt-Igoe Myth…
the Pruitt-Igoe Myth « The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – a Documentary.
Another film that I’d love to see but never will unless it finds it way onto YouTube.
Argh!
Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day
Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day
I’d love to know how many people have the app store installed to generate 1m downloads. Remember this is an OS update after all.
The fantastic adventures of Zoll…
This is seriously funny.
“Human life becomes our priority.” Well, that’s reassuring.
London vs. Paris…
Ask most historians in the UK and New York became the center of the world after the Second World War, I always wondered about this view of things.
Google Ngrams shows New York passing in front of London in 1910.
London, Paris, New York (English)
I’ve not mentioned Paris which lags behind London for the whole period. But then it is in English. How do the Germans see the world?
Mac App Store…
OK, it’s here.
Apple – App Store – Buy, download, and install apps made for Mac.
I’m on the record as saying that this is a massive day for Apple. Today is the day that it becomes easier to buy software for a Mac than for any other platform.
The next few weeks will contain grumbles about developer contracts and prices but the result is that today Apple has the only platform that works from end-to-end. Life gets difficult for the competition starting today.
Here are my first impressions:
- The prices are all over the place. Obviously if you’ve charged 50€ for a packaged software for years it’s now difficult to go for volume and sell for 5€. However, I can’t see Pixelmator being 24€ for long. They probably need to be under 10€ although it’s worth more.
- Where are Google, Real, Microsoft, Adobe and the others? I can only imagine that marketing or legal stopped them being there on day one. They’ll regret it.
- It’s a shame that it doesn’t detect the third party software that I’ve installed. That would have been really good.
- Why does Software Update still exist? System Updates only?
- Does this kill MacHeist?
Overall, there are tactical issues to solve but when the strategy is so clearly right I think that they can afford to spend to the time getting this right.
Public space…
All makes perfect sense but why have we built so much rubbish since?